Recaps

Yun Gugu explained the Great Thousand World’s cultivation realms and revealed the Great Desolation Divine Realm’s overwhelming strength, leaving Qian Renxue and the Douluo Continent’s onlookers stunned. Ning Fengzhi recognized the Green-Robed Sword Saint as a figure from the Sword Domain, where Jian Douluo had been transported.

• Yun Gugu described the cultivation ranks, naming the Divine Lord a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign who might have reached the Ruler realm.
• Yun Gugu said Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns were exceedingly rare and that the Great Desolation Divine Realm had twenty or thirty Heavenly Sovereign elders, with more among its stewards and affiliated beasts.
• Yun Gugu revealed that the Divine Son and Divine Maiden had reached Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign in their twenties, shocking Qian Renxue, who returned to her maid duties after Yun Gugu advised her to know her place.
• Flender and Oscar despaired over the gap between the Great Thousand World and Douluo, while Zhu Zhuqing urged everyone to focus on survival and Tang San agreed.
• Ning Fengzhi excitedly recognized the Green-Robed Sword Saint of the Sword Domain as connected to the place where Jian Douluo had been transported.

Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong realized that Sword Douluo had entered a lineage led by a Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign, while the Sky Screen’s revelations shook Tang Chen’s suppressed consciousness in Slaughter City. In the Great Desolation Divine Realm, Qian Renxue met Yao Lao and Cai Lin as they arrived to exchange pills for a scale from the Divine Lord’s Primordial Chaos Ancestral Dragon.

• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong celebrated Sword Douluo’s chance to learn from the Sword Domain and imagined the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect becoming the Douluo Continent’s strongest power.
• The King of Slaughter crushed his goblet after hearing about the Great Thousand World, and Tang Chen’s suppressed consciousness began to awaken and despair over his pursuit of godhood.
• Qian Renxue and Yun Gugu encountered Yao Lao and Cai Lin arriving on a Radiant Flame Lotus, and Yao Lao gave Qian Renxue a trace of pill energy that soothed her soul and aided her future cultivation.
• Yun Gugu identified Yao Lao as the Flame Emperor’s honored teacher and Cai Lin as a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python, then explained that they had come to trade for the Divine Lord’s Ancestral Dragon Reverse Scale.

The Douluo Continent’s mortals and gods reacted to the Great Thousand World’s power, with the God Kings arrogantly plotting to seize its treasures. The Sky Screen then showed Ning Rongrong suffering as a servant of the Ice Spirit Clan, where she learned that a young man had once carved a vast chasm into the clan’s plaza while fighting to resurrect his wife.

• Dugu Bo and Tang San were shaken by Yao Lao’s alchemy and the Great Thousand World’s resources, while Yu Xiaogang could not respond.
• The Five Great God Kings dismissed the Great Thousand World’s powers and eagerly planned to plunder its treasures and subjugate its leaders.
• The Sky Screen showed Ning Rongrong, stripped of her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul, working as a lowly servant in the Ice Spirit Clan.
• An Ice Spirit Clan steward kicked Ning Rongrong away from a chasm, warning that lingering will near it could shred her Divine Soul.
• The steward told Ning Rongrong that a young man had carved the chasm with a Thunder Emperor Scepter while fighting alone to resurrect his wife.

The steward recounted how Lin Dong defeated the Ice Spirit Clan’s three Heavenly Sovereign ancestors to resurrect his wife, then hunted the Western Heaven War Emperor for three months after the War Emperor coveted her. The revelations shook Tang Hao, inspired Tang San’s vow to protect Xiao Wu, and left the Snow Empress wondering whether she would accept the War Emperor’s protection at a personal cost.

• The steward told Ning Rongrong that Lin Dong had defeated three Ice Spirit Clan ancestors and taken the Ice Spirit Stele to resurrect his wife.
• The steward revealed that Lin Dong had driven off the Western Heaven War Emperor and hunted him for three months after he tried to claim Lin Dong’s wife.
• Tang Hao feared that the Western Heaven War Emperor intended to use Ah Yin as a cultivation furnace and lamented that he could not protect her.
• Yu Xiaogang predicted that Ah Yin would become the War Emperor’s cultivation furnace, prompting Xiao Wu to fear the same fate and Tang San to vow to hunt anyone who harmed her.
• The Ice Empress teased the Snow Empress about becoming the Western Heaven War Emperor’s cultivation cauldron, and the Snow Empress privately considered accepting his protection to escape her tribulation.

Qian Renxue discovered that even discarded items in the Great Desolation Divine Realm held power beyond her understanding, then witnessed the Punishment Elder teach the Dao. His demonstration and criticism of beast-derived cultivation methods left Yu Xiaogang and Tang San shaken.

• Qian Renxue sensed overwhelming Light Sword Intent from a broken blade in the Discarded Items Pavilion, and Yun Gugu explained it was a failed paper knife made by a Great Perfection Earthly Sovereign elder.
• The Great Dao Transmitting Bell summoned disciples to hear the Punishment Elder teach at Dao-Seeking Cliff, and Yun Gugu told Qian Renxue she could listen while sweeping the steps.
• The Punishment Elder called cultivation based on hunting beasts barbaric, prompting Yu Xiaogang to defend Soul Rings as gifts of heaven and earth.
• The Punishment Elder breathed life into a dead branch, grew a fruit, and transformed it into a Huo Yun Lion as powerful as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Tang San collapsed at Shrek Academy and began to see his soul rings and the cultivation path he had followed as misguided.

A gray-robed elder described the Divine Lord’s extraordinary swordsmanship and rise from a Lower Plane, then revealed that the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor also reached Heavenly Sovereign in mere decades. When Qian Renxue asked which of the three was strongest, the elder began recounting a visit by the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor to the newly established Divine Realm.

• The gray-robed elder recalled how the Divine Lord split an Ancient Star River and the surrounding space with a single finger-sword stroke.
• The elder said the Divine Lord rose from humble beginnings and established the Great Desolation Divine Realm in only a few decades, while Tang San struggled to imagine matching him.
• The elder explained that the Divine Lord forcibly devoured the origins of powerful Divine Beast bloodlines rather than following an ordinary path of cultivation.
• The elder revealed that the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor also took only decades to ascend from their Lower Planes and reach Heavenly Sovereign.
• Qian Renxue asked the elder to rank the Divine Lord, Flame Emperor, and Martial Ancestor; he described their distinct strengths but said he could not judge them, then began telling of the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor visiting the newly founded Divine Realm.

The gray-robed elder recounted how the Divine Lord devoured a Heavenly Phoenix, rose to power, and helped forge a pact between three supreme realms. He then demonstrated his Great Compassion Azure Wood Dharma Body, leaving the people of the Douluo Continent stunned by the immense gap between it and their Martial Soul Avatars.

• The gray-robed elder explained that the Flame Emperor, Martial Ancestor, and Divine Lord fought to a draw and became confidants, establishing a ten-million-year pact of nonaggression between their realms.
• The gray-robed elder said the Divine Lord escaped a princess of the Primordial Divine Dynasty who meant to devour his Profound Python Fate, then devoured her Heavenly Phoenix origin and later ravaged her dynasty.
• Bibi Dong admired the Divine Lord’s defiance, while Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts feared his power; Oscar and Tang San were shaken by the legends surrounding the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor.
• A newly advanced Supreme Realm disciple asked about the Ninety-Nine Grade Supreme Dharma Body Ranking, so the gray-robed elder revealed his seventy-second-ranked Great Compassion Azure Wood Dharma Body.
• The enormous Dharma Body drew Spiritual Energy from tens of thousands of miles around and towered into the clouds, causing Yu Xiaogang to collapse in disbelief at its scale.

A gray-robed elder demonstrated the terrifying power of a ranked Supreme Dharma Body and explained the legends behind the Dharma Body Ranking. He revealed that the Divine Lord rejected Dharma Bodies and once cleaved a top-ten Primordial Star Dharma Body with his own body as a sword, then agreed to explain the Divine Lord’s cultivation path.

• The Great Compassion Azure Wood Dharma Body’s appearance overwhelmed the Douluo Continent and frightened the Five Great God Kings, while Gu Yuena awoke beneath the Lake of Life and reconsidered her plans to challenge the Divine Realm.
• The gray-robed elder dissolved the Dharma Body and explained that ranked Dharma Bodies were rare, with the top ten possessing power that could shake the Great Thousand World.
• The elder said the ranking’s first place remained vacant because the Five Great Primordial Dharma Bodies stood above it.
• The elder recounted how the Divine Lord defeated an Ancestor of the Primordial God Clan and cleaved his million-foot Primordial Star Dharma Body in half without summoning a Dharma Body himself.
• When asked whether the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor also followed paths without Dharma Bodies, the elder said he did not know and that their paths were beyond his understanding.
• The disciples asked to hear more about the Divine Lord’s path, and the elder agreed to explain it.

An elder explained the Great Desolation Divine Lord’s path of cultivating the body as a universe, without relying on external power, and Qian Renxue grasped the principle and rapidly advanced in cultivation. Her breakthrough shook Douluo Continent, prompting Qian Daoliu to reject Spirit Hall’s dependence on the Angel God, while Snow Empress and Ice Empress turned their admiration toward the Divine Lord.

• The gray-robed elder described the Divine Lord’s Dharma Form of Heaven and Earth and his principle of cultivating oneself without borrowing external power.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang were shaken by the idea that hidden weapons, poisons, soul rings, and soul bones were all external dependencies.
• Qian Renxue realized her former martial soul, soul rings, and divine inheritance were borrowed powers, and her spiritual root awakened as she advanced through three stages of the Spirit Movement Realm.
• Qian Daoliu rejected the Angel God and ordered Spirit Hall’s core members to value Qian Renxue’s place in the Divine Lord’s lineage.
• Snow Empress and Ice Empress praised the Divine Lord and dismissed the Western Heaven War Emperor as a cultivator who used women for power.
• Qian Renxue felt the pure Spiritual Energy within her and wondered what further mysteries she could learn in the Great Thousand World.

Qian Renxue asked the gray-robed elder to explain the Five Primordial Dharma Bodies, and learned their powers and that the Great Desolation Divine Realm held a Primordial source and many other Supreme Dharma Body cultivation methods. The elder left the disciples eager to earn Contribution Points and pursue them.

• Qian Renxue braved Yun Gugu’s warning and asked the gray-robed elder to name the Five Primordial Dharma Bodies and describe their powers.
• The elder explained that the Eternal Undying Body could endure through eternity, the Tai Ling Sacred Body drew on vast Spiritual Energy, the Night God Ancient Body devoured cultivation in darkness, and the Desolate Ancestor Body shattered laws through physical force.
• The elder named the Boundless Light Body as the fifth, describing its power to purify evil, heal injuries, and dispel poison and curses; Qian Renxue’s Light Spiritual Root responded with joy.
• The elder revealed that the Five Primordial Dharma Bodies had been lost in an ancient calamity, but the Divine Lord had found a true source and sealed it at Myriad Arts Cliff for qualified disciples to attempt to comprehend.
• The elder announced that the Divine Lord had collected at least half the Dharma Bodies on the Ninety-Nine Grade Supreme Dharma Body Ranking and that disciples could earn access to their cultivation methods with Contribution Points.

After reaching the Sword Domain, Chen Xin learned that his Seven Kill Sword was considered a fragile phantom and was taken to the Outer Sect’s Sword Tomb to choose a physical sword. The chapter ended as he faced the tomb’s millions of swords, warned that trying to force one to accept him could be fatal.

• After Qian Renxue’s sudden cultivation breakthrough, Yun Gugu assigned her to accompany her to the Inner Hall and help soothe the Divine Maiden’s agitated spirit pet.
• In the Sword Domain, Chen Xin’s Senior Brother Guide condemned the Seven Kill Sword as an inferior phantom unable to withstand true sword intent.
• Yu Xiaogang and some Soul Masters defended Martial Souls, while Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong wondered at the Sword Domain’s superior sword tradition.
• The Senior Brother Guide took Chen Xin to the Sword Tomb, where its millions of swords stunned him and the watchers across Douluo Continent.
• The Senior Brother Guide explained that Chen Xin could take a sword that approved of him, but warned him not to forcefully draw one.

Chen Xin entered the Sword Tomb, where he encountered a sword corrupted by Otherworldly Demons and was ensnared by a rusty iron sword’s bloodthirsty spirit. As the sword began draining his life, Lord Sword Saint and Senior Sister Qingyuan arrived.

• Chen Xin entered the Sword Tomb after Senior Brother Guide warned him about its dangerous swords, and a dormant vicious sword stirred as he crossed the threshold.
• Senior Brother Guide explained that the corrupted broken sword belonged to an elder who had sacrificed it after killing an Otherworldly Demon General.
• Chen Xin saluted the broken sword and continued deeper into the gorge, where a rusty iron sword called to him and drew him into a vision of slaughter.
• The iron sword bewitched Chen Xin and began draining his life, while Senior Brother Guide failed to sever their connection and Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong watched in alarm.
• Lord Sword Saint and Senior Sister Qingyuan appeared beside Chen Xin, and Senior Brother Guide knelt to greet them.

Chen Xin drew the Asura Sword in the Sword Tomb and earned the Green-Robed Sword Saint’s promise to teach him a top-thirty Supreme Dharma Body once he reached the Supreme Realm. Warned that the promise and sword would make him a target in the outer sect, Chen Xin settled into his stone house and prepared for a possible attack.

• The Green-Robed Sword Saint awakened Chen Xin from the sword’s illusion, revealed that the rusted blade was the Asura Sword forged from an Outer Realm Devil Emperor’s spine, and declared that it belonged to Chen Xin.
• The Sword Saint accepted Chen Xin as a disciple, sealed the sword’s fiendish energy, and promised to teach him a top-thirty Supreme Dharma Body after he reached the Supreme Realm.
• Qingyuan warned Chen Xin that word of the Sword Saint’s promise would spread through the outer sect and that other disciples might try to seize his opportunity.
• The guiding senior brother warned Chen Xin that outer sect disciples fought freely and might target him for a place in the Inner Sect.
• Chen Xin reached his stone house, laid the Asura Sword across his knees, and began healing his injuries and preparing for trouble.

The Sky Screen selected Tang Chen, Yue Guan, and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion as the Douluo Continent’s third batch of Explorers. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion arrived in Su Wangchen’s private garden in the Great Desolation Divine Realm, where an immensely noble presence began approaching her.

• The Sky Screen announced three new Explorer slots, prompting the Snow Empress, Ice Empress, Tang San, and Yu Xiaogang to hope they would be chosen.
• The Sky Screen selected Tang Chen, King of Slaughter, and transported him from Slaughter City.
• The Sky Screen selected Yue Guan of Spirit Hall, and he vanished in golden light.
• The Sky Screen selected the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, from Star Dou Great Forest, despite Di Tian’s desperate protest.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion landed in the lush valley of Su Wangchen’s private back garden in the Great Desolation Divine Realm.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s third eye twitched as a presence far nobler than her bloodline approached.

A mysterious little white beast emerged from the mist and fed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion a Spiritual Fruit that transformed her into a powerful human woman. The Divine Lord’s voice then froze the valley and terrified beings across the Douluo Continent, while Bibi Dong remained determined to see him.

• The little white beast appeared before the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, whose instincts made her tremble and submit.
• The little white beast gave the Three-Eyed Golden Lion a red Spiritual Fruit, and its energy transformed her into a golden-haired human woman without weakness or tribulation.
• The transformed young woman held the little white beast until a voice from the Purple Bamboo Forest called for Xiao Bai, freezing the valley and trapping her in place.
• Di Tian knelt in terror, Gu Yuena recognized the Divine Lord’s power, and Tang San was injured when he tried to look into the Purple Bamboo Forest.
• Bibi Dong ignored the pressure and demanded to see the Divine Lord who had defied fate and devoured the Divine Phoenix.

The Divine Lord allowed the Three-Eyed Golden Lion to stay in his Medicine Garden with Xiao Bai, then learned that the Ancient Heavenly Palace Ruins were leaking Demonic Energy and decided to investigate in person. On the Tianluo Continent, Yue Guan cautiously sought a place in the Great Luo Heavenly Domain, while the Sky Screen left his next move unresolved.

• The Divine Lord recognized the Three-Eyed Golden Lion as an Auspicious Beast, allowed her to stay in the Medicine Garden, and assigned her to keep Xiao Bai company.
• Yu Xiaogang dismissed Xiao Bai as a useless pet, but Tang San privately recognized the beast’s extraordinary abilities and ignored his teacher.
• A purple-robed elder reported that scouts had located the Ancient Heavenly Palace Ruins and found cracks in its sealing formation, with Demonic Energy leaking through and signs of the suppressed monster’s revival.
• The Divine Lord announced that he would personally investigate the ruins, and the Sky Screen carried the scene to the Tianluo Continent.
• Yue Guan arrived on the Tianluo Continent, learned that the Great Luo Heavenly Domain was recruiting, and headed for its recruitment grounds hoping to join as an Outer Sect disciple.

Yue Guan encountered a mysterious Little Girl in the Black Dress in the mountains and brought her along to the Great Luo Heavenly Domain’s recruitment site. As Spirit Hall’s leaders confidently expected him to pass the assessment, Yue Guan saw how powerful the candidates were and watched the first applicant fail.

• Yue Guan sensed the Little Girl in the Black Dress’s extraordinary plant-and-tree aura and offered to take her as his disciple.
• The Little Girl in the Black Dress refused to become Yue Guan’s disciple but agreed to accompany him to the Great Luo Heavenly Domain.
• Bibi Dong and the Spirit Hall elders watched the Sky Screen and confidently predicted that Yue Guan would pass the entrance test.
• Yue Guan and the Little Girl in the Black Dress reached the recruitment plaza, where Yue Guan was shaken by the cultivators’ powerful Spiritual Energy.
• A burly man failed to light the third pattern on the Spirit Testing Stone, and the deacon ordered him away.

Yue Guan barely passed the Great Luo Heavenly Domain's test and was assigned to grow chrysanthemums, while the little girl he had brought along cracked the Spirit Testing Stone and chose to stay with him. A few days later, Yue Guan asked Steward Ma about the domain's powerful figures and learned that its territories were ruled by the Nine Kings.

• Yue Guan used his rank-ninety-five Soul Power to light three markings on the Spirit Testing Stone, barely passing and receiving a job growing chrysanthemums in the Outer Sect's Spirit Medicine Garden.
• The little girl touched the stone and lit every marking before cracking it, stunning the crowd and prompting the attendant to offer her Inner Sect status.
• The little girl declined the offer and insisted on going with Yue Guan to the back mountain, leaving him terrified by the attention she attracted.
• A few days later, Yue Guan worked in the Spirit Medicine Garden while the little girl ate a stolen Spiritual Fruit nearby.
• Yue Guan asked Steward Ma which figures he should avoid offending, and Steward Ma explained that the Great Luo Heavenly Domain's territories were ruled by the Nine Kings.

Yue Guan learned that the Great Luo Heavenly Domain was ruled in practice by the Three Emperors while its Domain Lord was missing, but the black-dressed girl casually claimed the Domain Lord had simply come out to sleep. That night, Outer Sect disciples attacked the Medicine Garden to steal a Seven-Star Begonia, and Yue Guan was badly wounded defending it as the girl emerged.

• Steward Ma told Yue Guan that the Nine Kings served the Three Emperors and warned him that the missing Domain Lord was a taboo subject amid rumors and political turmoil.
• The black-dressed girl suggested the Domain Lord had left seclusion to find somewhere to sleep, frightening Yue Guan and Steward Ma.
• After night fell, Yue Guan heard Outer Sect disciples led by Senior Brother Zhang plotting to steal the nearly mature Seven-Star Begonia from the Medicine Garden.
• Yue Guan confronted the intruders and formed a golden-petal defense with his Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum when Senior Brother Zhang attacked.
• Senior Brother Zhang's saber shattered Yue Guan's petals and struck his chest, sending him flying and making him spit blood as the girl came out of the cottage.

A mysterious girl in a black dress defeated Blood Eagle Hall’s disciples with overwhelming force after they came to punish her and Yue Guan. The chapter ended with the Law Enforcement Team crushed in the Medicine Garden, while Steward Chen and his men lay unable to move.

• The girl used a trace of her aura to force Senior Brother Zhang and his companions to their knees, then let them flee the Medicine Garden.
• Senior Brother Zhang lied to Steward Chen that the girl had injured them with a protective artifact and insulted the Blood Eagle King, prompting Chen to lead the Law Enforcement Team to the garden.
• Steward Chen and Senior Brother Zhang arrived on blood eagles and ordered their disciples to seize the girl and Yue Guan or kill them if they resisted.
• The girl casually pressed her hand downward, crushing the blood eagles and flattening Steward Chen and the Law Enforcement Team into the ground.
• Yue Guan and the viewers on the Douluo Continent were stunned by the girl’s power, while Tang San could not explain how she had defeated the attackers.

The little girl revealed herself as the Great Luo Heavenly Domain’s Domain Lord, effortlessly defeating Blood Eagle King and reducing Yue Guan to terrified submission. The Sky Screen then showed Tang Chen arriving at the Ancient Heavenly Palace Ruins, where the scale of the ruins unsettled him.

• Steward Chen crushed a blood-red jade token, summoning Blood Eagle King to the Medicine Garden.
• Blood Eagle King attacked the little girl and Yue Guan, but the girl destroyed his strike with a slap and sent him crashing into a cliff.
• Sleeping Emperor, Spirit Sword Emperor, and Sky Vulture Emperor arrived and knelt before the girl, acknowledging her as the Domain Lord.
• Yue Guan realized the girl was the Domain Lord and begged her to spare his life, while she reprimanded the Three Emperors for their subordinates’ conduct.
• The Sky Screen shifted to the Ancient Heavenly Palace Ruins, where Tang Chen arrived and explored the shattered plaza and its enormous remnants.

Tang Chen discovered that medicinal residue in the Ancient Heavenly Palace suppressed the Nine-Headed Bat King’s resentment, while the Clear Sky Sect and Tang San learned of his identity and hoped his discoveries would restore their power. Tang Chen continued exploring the ruins as his descendants prepared to challenge Spirit Hall.

• Tang Chen touched golden medicinal powder in a ruined side hall, and its energy suppressed some of the resentment tormenting him.
• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders recognized Tang Chen on the Sky Screen, regretted their years of seclusion, and lifted the mountain-sealing decree.
• Tang Xiao ordered the sect to reconnect with the Four Great Single-Attribute Clans and declared that the Clear Sky Sect would repay Spirit Hall.
• Tang Hao reunited with Tang San at Shrek Academy and revealed that the Sky Screen figure was Tang San’s great-grandfather, Tang Chen, founder of the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Hao told Tang San that Tang Chen’s success in the Great Thousand World could let their family return to the sect and defeat Spirit Hall.
• Tang Chen absorbed the medicinal residue’s remaining energy and continued deeper into the vast Ancient Heavenly Palace ruins.

Tang Chen discovered the Heavenly Emperor Sword sealing the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor and, overcome by greed, approached it without realizing the apparent Heavenly Emperor was actually the demon in disguise. Gu Yuena and the God Realm Committee recognized the danger as Tang Chen neared the altar, leaving the seal's fate uncertain.

• Tang Chen read the stele's account of the Ancient Heavenly Palace's war against the Outer Realm Evil Clan and the Heavenly Emperor's sacrifice to seal the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• Tang Chen found two bodies on an altar, with a crystal sword pinning the apparent Devil Emperor, and decided to take the sword for its power.
• The chapter revealed that the golden figure was the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor in disguise, the demonic body beneath him was the true Heavenly Emperor, and the sword was the seal's core.
• Gu Yuena, Di Tian, and Bi Ji sensed something wrong as Tang Chen approached the altar, while Gu Yuena feared the sword's influence had bewitched him.
• The God Realm Committee learned that Tang Chen was the Asura God's chosen successor, and the Asura God warned that removing the sword could break the seal and expose their realm to the demon.

Tang Chen was rejected by the Heavenly Emperor Sword, then possessed by the Demonic Energy and transformed into a monster that attacked the Devil Emperor’s corpse. As Spirit Hall prepared for the threat and Tang Hao grieved, Tang San questioned how the black mist had fused the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King with Tang Chen.

• On Cold Mountain Peak, Clear Sky Sect leaders celebrated the Heavenly Emperor Sword and urged Tang Chen to claim it.
• The Heavenly Emperor Sword burned and threw Tang Chen away, allowing the Demonic Energy to enter him and overwhelm his mind.
• Tang Chen mutated into a demon, failed to break the sword with his hammer, and attacked the Devil Emperor’s body instead.
• Qian Daoliu concluded that Tang Chen had become a puppet and ordered Spirit Hall to prepare for the possibility that he would return.
• At Shrek Academy, Tang Hao collapsed in grief while Tang San asked why the black mist had fused the bat with Tang Chen; Tang Hao said he did not know.

Tang San realized the battlefield had been staged to disguise the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor as a savior and the Heavenly Emperor as a demon, but Tang Chen destroyed the seal and freed the Devil Emperor. As the Devil Emperor returned, Spirit Hall prepared to defend the Douluo Continent, while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan feared the Great Thousand World was doomed.

• Tang San deduced that the corpse beneath the divine sword was the real Heavenly Emperor and that the golden-robed figure was the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• Tang Chen shattered the Heavenly Emperor's remains, breaking the seal and allowing the Nine Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor to escape.
• The Devil Emperor revealed his true form, and Tang Chen prostrated himself before him as a loyal servant.
• Qian Daoliu recognized Tang Chen as a threat to the Douluo Continent and ordered Spirit Hall to gather its Soul Masters and activate the Angel Defense Great Array.
• Yu Yuanzhen concluded that no one could stop the Devil Emperor, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's elders panicked.