Recaps

Mu Chen’s Nine Nether Sparrow spirit wounded Ning Fengzhi, while the Sky Screen shifted to Sea Horse Douluo’s arrival in the Great Thousand World and his meeting with Hai Bodong. As the Douluo Continent’s powers dismissed Hai Bodong as a low-ranking unaffiliated cultivator, the Boundless Ancestor appeared and challenged him over the Extreme Cold Ice Marrow.

• The Nine Nether Sparrow phantom emerged from Mu Chen and shattered Ning Fengzhi’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, but Ning Fengzhi celebrated his choice to follow Mu Chen.
• The Sky Screen switched to Sea Horse Douluo, who was stranded in the Endless Sea and attacked by a powerful three-headed sea beast.
• Hai Bodong froze the beast and the surrounding sea, then agreed to keep Sea Horse Douluo alive if he guided him to the Extreme Cold Ice Marrow.
• The Douluo Continent’s factions judged Hai Bodong to be an unaffiliated cultivator, and Bibi Dong’s advisers estimated that he was at most a First Grade Sovereign.
• The Boundless Ancestor rose from the sea, revealed himself as its master, and ordered Hai Bodong to kneel and die for coveting the Extreme Cold Ice Marrow.

Hai Bodong revealed himself as an Earthly Sovereign of the Endless Fire Domain, humbled the Boundless Ancestor, and rewarded Sea Horse Douluo with a pill and a token before leaving. When the Boundless Ancestor threatened Sea Horse Douluo for the gifts, Sea Horse surrendered them and offered to become his servant, enraging the observers on Douluo Continent.

• Hai Bodong overwhelmed the Boundless Ancestor with his Earthly Sovereign aura and identified himself through a token from the Endless Fire Domain.
• The Boundless Ancestor gave Hai Bodong the ten-thousand-year-old supreme ice marrow and begged for mercy.
• Hai Bodong gave Sea Horse Douluo a Spirit-Gathering Pill and a token to seek work at an Endless Commerce branch, then departed.
• The Boundless Ancestor threatened Sea Horse Douluo to seize the pill and token, but Sea Horse knelt and offered them up while asking to serve him.
• The Boundless Ancestor accepted Sea Horse Douluo as his dog and took him to the Dragon Palace, while Bo Saixi and the Sea God Island guardians condemned Sea Horse's submission.

Tai Tan arrived in the Great Desolation Divine Realm hoping to become a servant, but was told he was not even fit to be a dog and collapsed from humiliation. After waking in a Spirit Medicine Garden, he mistook a worker’s ordinary Soil-Loosening Hammer for a Clear Sky Hammer, only to learn that the sect treated such tools as unwanted farm equipment.

• The Sky Screen revealed that Tai Tan had landed in the Great Desolation Divine Realm, filling Douluo Continent with alarm and making Tang San hope Tai Tan would gain a foothold there.
• Crushed by the realm’s spatial laws, Tai Tan begged an Outer Sect disciple to let him serve as a dog, but the disciple dismissed him as worthless compared with the realm’s Dragon Carp and watchdogs.
• Tai Tan fainted from humiliation, and Tang San spat blood after learning his loyal servant was not even qualified to be a dog.
• Tai Tan awoke in a Spirit Medicine Garden and followed the sound of hammering to a young worker.
• Tai Tan mistook the worker’s Soil-Loosening Hammer for a Clear Sky Hammer, but the worker said it was a common farming tool piled up by the hundreds of thousands.

Tai Tan and the Douluo Continent’s powers witnessed how far the Great Desolation Divine Realm surpassed them in physical strength, Supreme Dharma Bodies, and battle formations. After Tai Tan was forced into menial labor, a grievously wounded inner sect disciple named Lin Feng arrived at the square and begged the elders for justice.

• Tang San saw the Clear Sky Hammer treated as a farming tool and fainted after vomiting blood.
• Tai Tan failed to move a Falling Star Stone, and an Outer Sect disciple flicked it away with a Supreme Dharma Body, shattering Tai Tan’s Martial Soul Avatar in the shock wave.
• The Medicine Garden steward dragged Tai Tan to Blackstone Square and ordered him to scrub the floors.
• Tai Tan watched ten thousand guards combine their battle intent into a Spirit of Battle Intent that cleaved a distant meteorite belt and the surrounding space.
• Tang San saw the Great Thousand World’s battle formation and fainted after denouncing the Douluo Continent’s military methods and sect foundations.
• A badly injured inner sect disciple, Lin Feng, crashed into Blackstone Square and cried out for the elders to give him justice.

After the Great Desolation Divine Realm ordered the Black Tortoise Divine Sect destroyed for massacring its disciples, the sect master fled with the stolen treasure to seek the Maha Ancient Clan’s protection. He offered the Primordial Divine Meridian Fruit at the clan’s gate and claimed the Great Desolation Divine Realm had insulted them.

• A surviving disciple accused the Black Tortoise Divine Sect’s Grand Elder of killing dozens of disciples and stealing their treasure, and the Great Desolation Divine Realm’s Third Elder ordered the sect razed within an hour.
• The Great Desolation Divine Realm sent ten thousand Guard Army soldiers, two Battle Array Masters, and five Earthly Sovereign stewards toward the Black Tortoise Divine Sect.
• The Xuanming Sect Master berated the Grand Elder, then agreed to flee with him to the Maha Ancient Clan and offer the Primordial Divine Meridian Fruit in exchange for protection.
• The Xuanming Sect Master and the Grand Elder reached the Maha Ancient Clan’s gate, where the guards dismissed them until the sect master revealed the treasure and demanded an audience.

The Xuanming Sect Master offered the Maha Ancient Clan a Primordial Divine Meridian Fruit and tried to provoke it against the Great Desolation Divine Realm. Maha Tian accepted the fruit but dismissed its value, leaving the sect’s plea for protection unresolved as the rival powers faced a possible war.

• The Black-Robed Elder took the Xuanming Sect Master's fruit, recognized its exceptional quality, and saw through his attempt to incite a conflict with the Great Desolation Divine Realm.
• The Black-Robed Elder decided the dispute required the Maha Ancient Clan leader's judgment and carried the Xuanming Sect Master and Grand Elder to the Maha Tian Palace.
• Bibi Dong, Tang San, the Star Luo Emperor, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect watched the Sky Screen and feared the consequences of the Maha Ancient Clan intervening.
• The Black-Robed Elder brought the two petitioners before Maha Tian, the Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign patriarch of the Maha Ancient Clan.
• Maha Tian called the Primordial Divine Meridian Fruit a mere thirst-quenching snack and swallowed it, while the Xuanming Sect Master watched in horror.

Maha Tian sent the Maha Ancient Clan’s Second Elder and three Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns to protect the Black Tortoise Divine Sect, but the Great Desolation Divine Realm refused to halt its assault. As the Maha elders moved to destroy the Divine Guard Army, a divine chariot arrived with four Half-Step Saint Grade guardian elders, and the chapter ended with the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Maha Tian declared the Black Tortoise Sect Master under his protection and dispatched the Second Elder and three Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns to the Black Tortoise Divine Sect.
• The Great Desolation Divine Realm’s army shattered the sect’s protective formation and began slaughtering its defenders until the Maha Yin-Yang Formation stopped their attack.
• The Maha Second Elder ordered the Great Desolation Divine Realm’s army to withdraw, but a silver-robed Battle Array Master crushed a tiger tally and commanded the army to keep fighting.
• The Maha Second Elder suppressed the Spirit of Battle Intent, badly injuring the ten thousand guards and the two Battle Array Masters as the Black Tortoise Sect Master celebrated.
• A young voice challenged the Maha elders, and dark-golden light tore apart their formation before a divine chariot arrived with the Great Desolation Divine Realm’s four Half-Step Saint Grade guardian elders.

The Great Desolation Divine Son forced four Maha Ancient Clan elders to kneel, then fought Maha Tian after the patriarch descended to avenge them. When Maha Tian’s deadly demon-thunder spear nearly struck the Divine Son, an unknown jade-white hand appeared and broke it.

• The Great Desolation Divine Son arrived at the Black Tortoise Divine Sect’s ruins and used a gesture to crush the knees of the four Maha Ancient Clan elders, forcing them to kneel.
• Douluo Continent’s female Soul Masters became infatuated with the Divine Son while male Soul Masters, including Tang San, reacted with jealousy and hoped the Maha Ancient Clan would kill him.
• The Maha Second Elder summoned Maha Tian, who descended in his true body and attacked the Divine Son with a giant black-and-white hand.
• The Divine Son sliced Maha Tian’s manifestation with the Heaven-Slaying sword technique, survived its counterstrike, and challenged Maha Tian despite his injuries.
• Maha Tian summoned the Great Black Heaven Demon Thunder and launched a spear at the Divine Son, but a jade-white hand stopped and snapped it just before it struck.

Su Changqing appeared at the Black Tortoise Continent, revealed his Half-Step Dominator Realm through the Firmament Ledger, and defeated Maha Tian with one finger. The Ledger’s power reached the Martial Realm and Endless Fire Domain, where Lin Dong pledged closer alliance with Su Changqing while Xiao Yan and Xiao Xiao witnessed the phenomenon.

• The Great Desolation Goddess welcomed Su Changqing, who brushed dust from his disciple’s shoulder and challenged Maha Tian for threatening him.
• Maha Tian summoned his Maha Infinite Dharma Body and attacked Su Changqing, but Su revealed his name on the Firmament Ledger and shattered the Dharma Body with one finger, sending Maha Tian into the Void Turbulence.
• The Firmament Ledger appeared above the Martial Realm, and Lin Dong confirmed that Su Changqing had reached the Half-Step Dominator Realm.
• Lin Dong ordered the Martial Realm’s alliance with the Great Desolation Divine Realm raised to the highest level and threatened the ancient clans.
• The Firmament Ledger suppressed the Heavenly Flames across the Endless Fire Domain as Xiao Yan left the alchemy hall and Xiao Xiao asked whether his pill refinement had failed.

After Su Changqing shattered Maha Tian’s Dharma Body and appeared on the Firmament Ledger, leaders across the Great Thousand World recognized that he had reached the Half-Step Ruler Realm. The Undying Lord welcomed Su Changqing as the Great Thousand World’s new hope, while the Pagoda Ancient Clan panicked and moved to isolate itself.

• Xiao Yan confirmed that Su Changqing had summoned the Firmament Ledger and predicted that his power would help the Great Thousand World face the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• The Firmament Ledger’s power strengthened the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array and suppressed the Heavenly Evil God, prompting the Undying Lord and the tomb keepers to celebrate Su Changqing’s arrival.
• The Undying Lord declared that Northern Wilderness Hill acknowledged the Great Desolation Divine Realm as sovereign and vowed to punish anyone who disrespected Su Changqing.
• Futuo Xuan learned that Su Changqing had defeated Maha Tian with one finger and caused the Firmament Ledger to appear, then collapsed in terror as he realized Su had reached the Half-Step Ruler Realm.
• Futuo Xuan ordered the Pagoda Ancient Clan to seal its outward Teleportation Arrays and recall its disciples who were training away from the clan.

Su Changqing’s power forced the Maha Ancient Clan to submit, and the myriad races honored him as the Eternal Azure Great Emperor. As Xiao Yan and Lin Dong arrived, Su Changqing warned that the Heavenly Evil God’s seal was failing and offered to share his insights to help them reach the next realm.

• Futuo Xuan ordered the Pagoda Ancient Clan’s treasures prepared so he could apologize to Su Changqing and congratulate him.
• Maha Wuliang knelt before Su Changqing, begged him to spare the Maha Ancient Clan’s descendants, and pledged the clan’s submission; Su Changqing accepted and left the aftermath to the Divine Son and Divine Maiden.
• The Divine Son ordered the Black Tortoise Divine Sect destroyed, and the Divine Guard Army razed its main peak.
• The myriad races gathered at the Great Desolation Divine Realm and proclaimed Su Changqing the Eternal Azure Great Emperor.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong arrived, and Su Changqing told them the Heavenly Evil God’s seal was weakening and offered to share his insights so they could advance.

Xiao Yan and Lin Dong entered seclusion to break through toward the Half-Step Ruler realm, and their auras devastated parts of the Douluo Continent. The Outer Realm Evil Clan sacrificed billions of demons to breach the Great Thousand World's barrier and launch an attack on the Great Desolation Divine Realm, leaving everyone waiting to see whether Su Changqing would intervene.

• Su Changqing revealed his insights into the World Will, and Xiao Yan and Lin Dong began attempting to reach the Half-Step Ruler realm inside the Main Hall.
• The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was crushed and gravely injured when a trace of Xiao Yan and Lin Dong's breakthrough aura reached the Demonic Whale Sea.
• A Spirit Hall branch's Platinum Bishop watched the Angel Statue shatter under the projected pressure and lost faith in Spirit Hall's power.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor and the other Heavenly Demon Emperors decided to interrupt the breakthroughs and sacrificed billions of demon soldiers to tear open the Plane Barrier above the Great Desolation Divine Realm.
• Demonic energy poured through the breach as the Ten Thousand Clans' Heavenly Sovereigns realized Xiao Yan and Lin Dong could not defend themselves and looked toward Su Changqing's Main Hall.

Su Changqing trapped and annihilated the invading Heavenly Demon Emperors with a formation he had prepared in advance. As Xiao Yan and Lin Dong’s breakthroughs appeared to falter, Su Changqing steadied their auras with a single word, and a world-shaking blast erupted above the Black Tortoise Continent.

• Su Changqing revealed that he had prepared the Heaven-Deceiving Grand Formation to trap the Outer Realm Evil Clan’s surprise attack.
• Su Changqing destroyed the trapped Heavenly Demon Emperors before they could escape or self-detonate.
• Tang San doubted that Xiao Yan and Lin Dong could reach the half-step Ruler realm through Su Changqing’s guidance.
• Soul Masters in the Embracing Moon Tower mocked Xiao Yan and Lin Dong as their auras grew unstable, expecting their breakthroughs to fail.
• Su Changqing said “Steady” and sent world power into Xiao Yan’s Fire Lotus and Lin Dong’s Martial Dao Runes.
• A tremendous blast shook the Great Thousand World above the Black Tortoise Continent.

Xiao Yan and Lin Dong broke through to the Half-Step Ruler Realm with Su Changqing’s help, shocking Douluo Continent and deepening its inhabitants’ despair over their cultivation system. Su Changqing warned that the Heavenly Evil God’s seal was failing and, rather than wait for him to escape, began to suggest a more proactive plan.

• The Firmament Ledger appeared as Su Changqing safeguarded Xiao Yan and Lin Dong, helping them break through to the Half-Step Ruler Realm and inscribe their names beside his.
• The Ledger’s three Half-Step Ruler auras overwhelmed Douluo Continent, crushing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and melting ice in the Far North despite the Ice Empress’s Ultimate Ice.
• The Snow Empress told the Ice Empress that Douluo’s Soul Ring system was a barbaric cage, while Tang San and other Soul Masters despaired over the gulf between their power and the three rulers.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong thanked Su Changqing for his guidance, and he said he had helped them prepare for the approaching calamity.
• Su Changqing revealed that cracks had appeared in the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array at Northern Wilderness Hill and warned that the Heavenly Evil God might soon break free.
• Xiao Yan vowed to fight the Heavenly Evil God with his Half-Step Ruler Buddha’s Fury Flame Lotus, but Su Changqing rejected waiting for the enemy to escape as too passive.

The Sky Screen selected the Ice Empress, Snow Empress, Yu Mianluo, and Tang San as compulsory explorers, transporting them to the Great Thousand World. After arriving inside the Great Desolation Divine Realm and gaining strength from its spiritual energy, the Ice Empress and Snow Empress sought to serve the Divine Lord, but found themselves before the Great Desolation Goddess.

• The Sky Screen announced three new compulsory Explorer slots and selected the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, Yu Mianluo, and Tang San.
• Yu Mianluo panicked as he was transported away, while Tang San convinced himself that he could survive in the Great Thousand World and steal powerful cultivation techniques.
• The Ice Empress and Snow Empress arrived at the Great Desolation Divine Realm, where the concentrated spiritual energy immediately helped the Ice Empress break through her cultivation bottleneck.
• The two women decided to seek the Divine Lord's protection and offer to serve him, then climbed to the Main Hall to request an audience.
• The Great Desolation Goddess appeared before them, and the Ice Empress and Snow Empress knelt and asked to remain in the Divine Realm as slaves or maids.

The Ice Empress and Snow Empress learned about the Divine Son and Divine Maiden’s devotion, then heard how Su Changqing rescued and transformed Gu Xian after his clan crippled him. The account ended as Gu Xian unleashed a secret art against three Primordial Ancient Species clan chiefs, causing his aura to surge tenfold.

• The Divine Maiden accepted the Ice Empress and Snow Empress as attendants, and they began sweeping the Great Desolation Divine Realm’s Main Hall plaza.
• An old sweeping servant warned the two Empresses against pursuing the Divine Son and recounted how he and the Divine Maiden risked everything for each other.
• The Divine Son and Divine Maiden passed the two attendants hand in hand, leaving them terrified and reverent.
• The old servant revealed that Gu Xian’s clan had torn out his Primordial Divine Meridian and killed his mother, and that Su Changqing avenged him by destroying the clan and taking him in as a disciple.
• Su Changqing reforged Gu Xian’s shattered body with Deceive-Heaven Array Runes, while the account of Gu Xian’s achievements shamed Yu Xiaogang and the instructors at Shrek Academy.
• The old servant described how Gu Xian faced three Immortal Grade clan chiefs from the Primordial Emperor Crocodile and Wind God Pterosaur clans and activated a secret art that increased his aura tenfold.

The Sky Screen revealed the Divine Son Gu Xian’s overwhelming power and the Divine Maiden’s mastery of spirit arrays, leaving figures across the Douluo Continent stunned. In the Great Thousand World, Tang San tried to assassinate a young servant for his resources, but his weapons failed and the servant’s casual slap shattered Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances and sent him crashing into a mountainside.

• The old servant told the Ice Empress and Snow Empress that Gu Xian had defeated three Immortal Grade Ferocious Beast clan chiefs and described the Divine Maiden’s Nine Divine Veins and ability to refine a plane with a spirit array.
• Tang San, Bibi Dong, Ghost Douluo, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Yu Xiaogang reacted with shock to the Sky Screen’s revelations about the Great Thousand World’s power.
• Tang San struggled under the Great Thousand World’s oppressive laws and decided to steal cultivation resources from a young Outer Sect servant he spotted resting in a marsh.
• Tang San attacked the servant with Dragon Whisker Needles and Yama’s Invitation, but the servant’s protective Spiritual Energy shattered the needles and purified the poison.
• Tang San charged the servant with his Mysterious Jade Hand, but the servant’s casual slap broke Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances and hurled him into a mountainside.

After a servant from the Great Desolation Divine Realm crippled Tang San, the Li Family enslaved him in a mine, where he plotted an escape and manipulated the other workers into rebelling. When their revolt was crushed, Tang San betrayed his companions to save himself and was ordered to become the mine’s watchdog.

• A young errand boy from the Great Desolation Divine Realm shattered Tang San’s weapons and left him near death with a single blow.
• The Li Family’s guards sealed Tang San’s remaining Soul Power and sent him to mine black iron, where he secretly collected ore to make Hidden Weapons.
• Tang San deceived Da Niu and the other slave laborers into believing he would help them escape, then used them as bait while planning to flee alone.
• When Da Niu led the revolt, a Li Family steward killed over a hundred laborers with a ripple of Spiritual Energy.
• Tang San kicked away a wounded laborer, blamed Da Niu for the uprising, and killed an old laborer who exposed his lies.
• The steward mocked Tang San for betraying his own kind and ordered him to wear a rune-engraved black iron ring and serve as the mine’s watchdog.

Tang San survived in the Great Thousand World by serving the Li Family steward, secretly cultivating and crafting a spiritual-energy hidden weapon before killing him and escaping. After reaching the early Spirit Movement Realm, he entered the Great Desolation Divine Realm’s recruitment test, confident his talents would earn him a place, and stood before the Spirit-Testing Pillar.

• Tang San spent three months as the Li Family steward’s brutal watchdog while secretly studying the steward’s cultivation and refining a Spirit Burst Needle.
• Tang San used the needle to kill the drunken steward, took his storage pouch and formation token, destroyed the stone house, and fled the Blackwater Mountain Range.
• Tang San spent two months healing his injuries and converting his energy into Great Thousand World spiritual energy, reaching the early Spirit Movement Realm.
• Tang San arrived at the Great Desolation Divine Realm’s recruitment ceremony in Tianluo City, disguised and determined to join its ranks.
• Tang San convinced himself that his Innate Full Soul Power and Twin Martial Souls would make the Spirit-Testing Pillar shine black, then stepped up to take the test.

Tang San’s Spirit-Testing Pillar examination exposed his twin martial souls as parasitic energies and his supposedly full soul power as blocked meridians, humiliating him and getting him expelled. After waking near Tianluo City, he decided to travel to the Endless Fire Domain and use his Tang Sect poison arts and hidden weapons to win recognition and take revenge.

• Tang San poured his energy into the Spirit-Testing Pillar, whose analysis branded him a parasitic waste body with congenital meridians sclerosis, and the steward had guards throw him out.
• The Sky Screen showed Shrek Academy’s spectators reacting in disbelief to the steward’s judgment of Tang San’s talents.
• Tang San woke in a ditch outside Tianluo City, cursed the Great Desolation Divine Realm, and insisted that its Spirit-Testing Pillar could not understand his abilities.
• Tang San recalled that Oscar had entered the Endless Fire Domain and decided that his Tang Sect poison arts and hidden weapons would earn him a place there.
• Tang San used his Lower-grade Spirit Stones to plan a journey toward the Endless Fire Domain and vowed to make the Great Desolation Divine Realm pay.

Tang San arrived in Red Fire City convinced that his poison-making and pill-refining surpassed the Great Thousand World’s arts, then presented his supposedly lethal poison to the Alchemist Guild. Elder Liu drank it without harm, called it cooling herbal tea, and crushed Tang San beneath his cultivation pressure.

• Tang San entered Red Fire City and disparaged its alchemy while believing his Tang Sect Secret Arts could make him supreme.
• The Clear Sky Sect elders praised Tang San’s arrogance on the Sky Screen, while ordinary Soul Masters mocked him and predicted the Endless Fire Domain would defeat him.
• Tang San went to the Alchemist Guild’s Main Hall and told Elder Liu he had come to demonstrate his skill as a Poison Master.
• Tang San presented Yama’s Invitation and claimed one drop could kill even a Divine Soul Realm powerhouse, but Elder Liu drank the entire bottle without ill effect.
• Elder Liu explained that the poison’s cold yin energy had soothed his fire toxin and called it cooling herbal tea, then forced Tang San to his knees and shattered his kneecaps with his pressure.

Tang San’s poisons and hidden weapons failed against the Great Thousand World’s cultivators, leaving him injured, starving, and destitute. He encountered Oscar, now a powerful Food Dao master, and swallowed his charitable bowl of spirit cuisine despite his wounded pride.

• Elder Liu dismissed Tang San’s poison as ordinary herbal tea and had guards drag him out of the Alchemist Guild, worsening his injuries.
• The Clear Sky Sect elders and Soul Masters in Heaven Dou Imperial City watched Tang San’s humiliation and mocked his failed poison.
• Starving in a slum, Tang San tried to rob an apothecary’s apprentice with a Sleeve Arrow, but the apprentice’s defensive robe stopped it and he kicked Tang San’s broken leg.
• A Spirit Cuisine Hall carriage arrived, and Tang San recognized Oscar inside as the carriage’s powerful and respected master.
• Oscar mistook Tang San for a beggar and sent him a bowl of nourishing soup; Tang San overcame his pride and devoured every drop, even licking broth from the muddy ground.

Tang San tried to win Princess Xiao Xiao’s favor by demonstrating his hidden weapons, but his Sleeve Arrow shattered against a maid’s protective pendant and he was beaten and thrown outside Red Fire City. There he reunited with the crippled Yu Xiaogang and, unwilling to lose face before his teacher, claimed his injuries were self-inflicted.

• Tang San recovered from his earlier injuries by eating Oscar’s leftover spirit cuisine broth, then spotted Princess Xiao Xiao arriving above Red Fire City and saw a chance to gain her favor.
• Tang San offered Xiao Xiao his hidden-weapon blueprints and demonstrated his Sleeve Arrow, but it broke against the maid’s Low-Grade Heart-Cleansing Jade Pendant.
• Xiao Xiao dismissed Tang San as a fraud, and the guards beat him, broke his right leg again, and threw him into a ditch outside the city.
• Tang San encountered Yu Xiaogang in the ditch and learned that his former teacher had lost an arm and his Martial Soul after arriving in the Great Thousand World.
• When Yu Xiaogang questioned how Tang San had been injured, Tang San insisted that he had inflicted the injuries on himself.

Tang San and Yu Xiaogang tried to survive in the Great Thousand World by inventing grand credentials and passing Yu Xiaogang’s cultivation theories off as expertise. Their scheme collapsed at the Zhao Family estate, where a Guest Elder Guard exposed them and Zhao Fugui ordered them beaten to death.

• Tang San lied to Yu Xiaogang that the Great Desolation Divine Lord and the Flame Emperor had fought over him, and Yu Xiaogang eagerly believed him.
• As hunger and rain wore them down outside Red Fire City, Tang San persuaded Yu Xiaogang to seek food by lecturing in Azure Rock Town.
• Tang San convinced Zhao Fugui to welcome the two beggars into the Zhao Family estate for a banquet by claiming they were renowned experts.
• After eating, Yu Xiaogang lectured Zhao Fugui and his household, claiming that no spirit veins were useless and that fire cultivators could absorb water-attribute demon cores.
• The Zhao Family’s Guest Elder Guard denounced Yu Xiaogang’s theories as dangerous nonsense, and Zhao Fugui ordered his guards to beat Tang San and Yu Xiaogang to death.

Tang San betrayed and killed Yu Xiaogang to survive, then was thrown into the Myriad Snake Cave, where he accepted a Blood Demon General's offer and became a demon. After devouring Yu Xiaogang and gaining power, Tang San emerged from the cave and attacked the Zhao Family mansion.

• Tang San stabbed Yu Xiaogang, blamed him for controlling and coercing him, and begged the Zhao Family guards to spare his life.
• Zhao Fugui ordered the guards to throw Tang San and Yu Xiaogang's corpse into the Myriad Snake Cave, where venomous snakes attacked Tang San and devoured part of Yu Xiaogang's body.
• A Blood Demon General awakened in the cave and offered Tang San demonic power; Tang San agreed to merge with it and demonized his Twin Martial Souls.
• Tang San used his Demon Vines to drain the venomous snakes and consume Yu Xiaogang's remains, reaching the late Spirit Movement Realm.
• Tang San climbed out of the cave, went to the Zhao Family mansion, and killed the two night guards with his Demon Vines.