Recaps

Mu Bai visited the Scripture Repository and began studying formation techniques, while Zhou Qilong informed him that Gray Bear and Spirit Monkey had gone to war over Everlasting Spring Valley’s treasure. The chapter ended with Spirit Monkey pulling Gray Bear out of a spatial shift and striking toward the back of his head.

• Mu Bai toured the Scripture Repository, where True Person Chihuo recognized him and explained that the Qi Clan of the Human Spirit Domain were renowned formation masters.
• Mu Bai chose introductory formation texts, deciding not to risk the sect’s safety by traveling to the Human Spirit Domain.
• Zhou Qilong told Mu Bai that Gray Bear and Spirit Monkey were fighting, and assured him that sect disciples were guarding Northern Territory City.
• Mu Bai saw that the armies of Gray Bear and Spirit Monkey were devastating the area around Everlasting Spring Valley as the two leaders fought over its supreme treasure.
• Spirit Monkey and Gray Bear accused each other of seeking to offer the valley’s treasure to the Demon Marshal, then resumed their duel.
• Spirit Monkey dragged Gray Bear out of a spatial shift and brought his hooked sword down toward the back of Gray Bear’s head.

Spirit Monkey and Gray Bear led their armies to Everlasting Spring Valley to seize its precious jade, while Azure Ox barred their way and Mu Bai defended him from the beasts. As the brothers fought Azure Ox, Spirit Monkey severed Azure Ox’s horn, and Gray Bear hesitated to keep attacking.

• Spirit Monkey and Gray Bear fought each other until Azure Ox arrived and confronted them for bringing their armies to Everlasting Spring Valley.
• Spirit Monkey and Gray Bear demanded the precious jade, and Mu Bai appeared beside Azure Ox and refused to let them pass.
• Spirit Monkey and Gray Bear turned their armies against the valley, but Mu Bai’s Divine Crow Golden Wings and White Spirit Flame halted the advancing beasts.
• Spirit Monkey and Gray Bear attacked Azure Ox together, and Azure Ox fought them off, wounding Spirit Monkey and grappling with Gray Bear.
• Spirit Monkey struck Azure Ox down with his golden staff, but Azure Ox’s horn severed Spirit Monkey’s right arm as Gray Bear hesitated to attack.

Gray Bear and Spirit Monkey turned against the Beast Tide to stop it from destroying Everlasting Spring Valley, then grieved over the devastation and asked Azure Ox to let them return. Mu Bai left the valley, while the Northern Territory Sect prospered and war resumed in Eastern Ridge.

• Gray Bear and Spirit Monkey joined Azure Ox in halting the Beast Tide and forcing both armies out of Everlasting Spring Valley.
• Gray Bear and Spirit Monkey knelt in grief over the valley’s slaughter, and Gray Bear asked Azure Ox to let them return and defend their home.
• Azure Ox left the decision to the valley’s beasts, while Mu Bai departed after leaving the rabbit a life-renewing Green Radish.
• Northern Territory City recovered, and the Northern Territory Sect grew stronger under True Person Chihuo and Zhou Qilong.
• The Kunling Sect and Primordial Soul Sect allied to attack the weakened Jialan Sect, which resisted with its battle experience and sect-guarding weapons.

The chapter recounted the Jialan Sect’s war against the Primordial Soul Sect and the Kunling Sect, while Mu Bai strengthened his cultivation and prepared to return to Eastern Ridge. He parted from Zhou Qilong, who stayed behind to lead the Northern Territory Sect, and left longing for home and the people waiting for him.

• Rao Jinchuan wielded the Human Emperor Battle Halberd to hold off the Primordial Soul Sect and the Kunling Sect, while Rao Lin rose as a powerful successor during the war.
• Jialan Sect’s prodigies turned the tide against the two sects, and the conflict left Eastern Ridge’s other sects time to recover.
• Mu Lan expanded trade with the Northern Plains and the Venerable Domain as Chen Shichong and Chen Qi continued to miss Mu Bai.
• Mu Bai emerged from two years of secluded cultivation with a stronger Demonic Qi armor, a Soul Treasure-level demonic sword, and a transformed Inner Core.
• Mu Bai told Zhou Qilong he planned to return to Eastern Ridge, and Zhou Qilong said he would remain to manage the Northern Territory Sect.
• Zhou Qilong cooked Mu Bai a bowl of noodles, and Mu Bai set out with thoughts of Ye Wan, Chen Qi, and Xing Yun.

Mu Bai left the Beast Territory’s familiar lands after saying goodbye to Azure Ox and his companions, carrying their wishes and his own unanswered questions about the war between humans and beasts. Disguised as an Alchemist, he entered Peng City under Marshal Cangxiao’s rule to investigate the border near the Beast Venerable Realm.

• Mu Bai visited True Person Chihuo at the Transmission Hall and paid his respects at the tombs of Old Xu and Xiu Zun Xing Yuan before leaving for Eastern Ridge.
• Azure Ox carried Mu Bai out of Everlasting Spring Valley, where Spirit Monkey, Gray Bear, and the gray-black rabbit said goodbye; Mu Bai also parted from Tie Niu and thought of meeting Hong Luo again.
• Mu Bai traveled for nearly a month toward the central Beast Territory, angered by the suffering of humans in the Demon Generals’ territories and determined to question the rulers behind the war.
• Mu Bai entered Demon Marshal Cangxiao’s jurisdiction disguised as an Alchemist and presented a travel permit at Peng City’s gate.
• Mu Bai claimed he intended to challenge Peng City’s Supreme Venerable Alchemist to pass the guard Shun Ying’s questioning, then entered the city and saw humans working among the beasts.

Mu Bai ate donkey-meat noodles in Peng City and watched a one-armed laborer confront three arrogant donkey demons. The laborer killed them with boiling water and forced the terrified diners to stay and eat.

• Mu Bai ordered hand-pulled noodles with meat from an old street seller, while other diners noted that humans needed high Alchemist status to eat meat in the Beast Territory.
• A one-armed man arrived, ordered a large bowl of donkey-meat noodles, and told Mu Bai he had cut off and eaten his own arm for meat.
• Mu Bai paid for the man to have another bowl, but three donkey demons kicked over the noodle pot and threatened the old seller over the noodles’ name and supposed ingredients.
• The donkey demons boasted that their household supplied meat to Marshal Cang, then began smashing the stall and tables.
• The one-armed man restored the spilled boiling water and poured it over the three demons, killing them, then ordered their bodies cooked as noodles.
• The diners tried to flee, but the one-armed man shouted for them to stay and eat, and they found themselves unable to disobey.

Mu Bai ate donkey-meat noodles with the One-Armed Man, who froze the Donkey Household brothers and their warriors before leaving. The Donkey Household then confronted Mu Bai, who claimed to be a Supreme Venerable Alchemist, and the standoff ended with Shun Ying demanding proof of his skill.

• The noodle-stall owner served Mu Bai and the onlookers real donkey meat, and they ate despite the danger.
• The Donkey Household brothers and their warriors surrounded the stall, but the One-Armed Man froze them and left after directing them to Mu Bai for payment.
• Da Lü and Second of the Donkey Household attacked Mu Bai, who caught a spear and claimed that Supreme Venerable Alchemists could share meat with others.
• Mu Bai showed Shun Ying a Travel Permit identifying him as a Supreme Venerable Alchemist, but the Donkey Household brothers accused him of fraud and their warriors charged.
• Shun Ying and the City-Defending Beast Army stopped the warriors, while the Donkey Household threatened to fight Shun Ying.
• Shun Ying challenged Mu Bai to prove his claim by refining a Supreme Grade Form Transformation Pill.

Mu Bai demonstrated his pill-refining skill in Peng City, producing three Form Transformation Pills that surpassed supreme grade. The city’s renowned Supreme Alchemist, Bailian Chen, recognized Mu Bai and begged to become his disciple, while Mu Bai tried to refuse.

• Mu Bai refused to make Form Transformation Pills without a Form Transformation Fruit, and the half-human donkeys caused a farting and laughter-filled interruption.
• An old man in white offered Mu Bai a Form Transformation Fruit and ingredients, promising to become his disciple if Mu Bai refined a supreme-grade pill; Mu Bai agreed to refine the pills for himself.
• Mu Bai used White Spirit Cold Flame and Soul Power to refine the ingredients in an iron noodle pot as the crowd watched for hours.
• Mu Bai produced three pills beyond supreme grade, each marked with three blue-green pill marks, astonishing the onlookers.
• Bailian Chen revealed himself as Peng City's only Supreme Alchemist and knelt to call Mu Bai his master; Shun Ying also paid respects to both men.
• Bailian Chen recognized Mu Bai as the founder of the Northern Territory Sect and begged to become his disciple, but Mu Bai helped him up and declined.

Mu Bai followed the noodle seller to Marshal Cangxiao’s residence and discovered that the day’s events had been an illusion, though the Form Transformation Pills were real. He reunited with Cangxiao, who welcomed him with a feast and offered to do one thing for him, and Mu Bai made a wish for the Human-Beast Great Dao and the myriad races to unite again.

• Mu Bai gave Bailian Chen a Form Transformation Pill, and Shun Ying accepted another after the Donkey Household left.
• Mu Bai asked the noodle seller about the Beast Venerable Realm, and the seller warned him not to speak of it.
• The noodle seller led Mu Bai to Marshal Cangxiao’s residence, where Mu Bai saw a vast night market and learned the earlier street scene had been an illusion.
• Cangxiao greeted Mu Bai, revealed that he was the one who had tricked him into paying, and ate black donkeys at his welcoming feast.
• Cangxiao offered to do one thing for Mu Bai, who wished for the Human-Beast Great Dao to return to unity and the Origin Realm’s races to join their hearts as one.

Cangxiao sent Mu Bai to the Beast Venerable Realm after demonstrating his mastery of time, and Mu Bai arrived in a human village where the world’s laws suppressed his abilities. He joined villagers heading to a mountain shrine, accompanying an old man and his granddaughter as they sought blessings from the deities.

• Cangxiao revealed that he could reverse time and explained that Dao Lings could move it forward, then sent Mu Bai to the Beast Venerable Realm.
• Mu Bai appeared in a village where villagers were traveling to worship deities at the Three Deities Palace on a nearby mountain.
• Mu Bai learned from an old man and his granddaughter that the realm was also called the Human-Beast Realm, where humans and beasts coexisted.
• The granddaughter said she hoped the deities would heal her grandfather and let him live a long life.
• After walking for more than six hours, Mu Bai and his companions reached the muddy mountain path, but the old man insisted on climbing it himself to show sincere devotion.

Mu Bai learned how the Three Deities Palace had gained followers by distributing pills during a deadly fever outbreak, then saw its disciples mistreat poor worshippers while demanding offerings. After protecting Jing'er and her grandfather and trying to take them home, Mu Bai was attacked by the disciples and knocked them down with a sweeping kick.

• Jing'er's grandfather told Mu Bai that Shen San and his brothers had claimed to be Divine Envoys after their pills helped villagers survive a fever outbreak, prompting the construction of the Three Deities Palace.
• Mu Bai, Jing'er, and her grandfather reached the crowded palace, where worshippers prayed and white-robed disciples collected valuables and livestock.
• A disciple scorned Jing'er's grandfather's copper coins, kicked over the family's rice, and shoved him down; when Jing'er protested, the disciple tried to slap her.
• Mu Bai blocked the disciple, gave Jing'er's grandfather a medicinal pill, and carried him away from the palace, saying there were no compassionate deities there.
• A brown-robed disciple ordered the others to seize Mu Bai, but Mu Bai swept his leg and sent a dozen white-robed disciples tumbling to the ground.

Mu Bai rescued Jing'er and her grandfather from the Three Deities’ followers, fed them, and used medicinal pills to improve the grandfather’s health. The next morning, villagers led by their village chief surrounded Mu Bai’s hut and accused him of sorcery, while Old Yang defended him.

• Mu Bai fled Sanming Mountain with Jing'er and brought her back to her grandfather’s hut, where he discovered the family had almost no food.
• Mu Bai hunted a gray wolf and an antelope, cooked meat for Jing'er and her grandfather, and sent her to share meat with other elderly villagers.
• Mu Bai gave medicinal pills to Jing'er and her grandfather, explaining that the pills—not the Three Deities—had helped the old man recover.
• At sunrise, Jing'er's grandfather emerged healthy and promised to stop worshipping the Three Deities.
• The village chief led armed villagers to Mu Bai’s hut and called him a sorcerer, but Old Yang stepped forward to defend his benefactor.

Mu Bai tried to stop the village from attacking him by exposing the Shen Household’s deception, but the village chief had him tied up and the villagers feasted on Jing’er’s gray wolf. Mu Bai broke free, rescued Jing’er and her grandfather, and agreed to go to the Divine Mountain after finishing his meal.

• The chief’s mother and other bedridden villagers recovered after taking Mu Bai’s pills, but the chief still denounced him as a sorcerer and urged the villagers to attack.
• The villagers beat at Mu Bai without harming him, then tied him up and took Jing’er’s gray wolf to the chief’s house for a feast.
• The villagers tied Jing’er and her grandfather up as well, but Mu Bai silently uprooted the tree holding him and snapped his ropes.
• Mu Bai freed Jing’er and her grandfather, then ate and drank with them while the villagers scrambled for weapons.
• Mu Bai finished eating, took out a short sword, and told the villagers to lead him to their Divine Mountain.

Mu Bai was taken to the Three Deities Palace, where he exposed the disciples’ abuse of women and killed their leader. The Shen brothers tricked him with a woman’s gray smoke and knocked him unconscious, but their attempts to hack him apart failed.

• Mu Bai threatened the villagers to protect Jing'er and her grandfather, then let them escort him to the Three Deities Palace.
• Mu Bai found the disciples feasting and abusing female worshippers, and he killed the brown-robed disciple when the man attacked him.
• The three Shen brothers emerged, bowed to Mu Bai, and ordered their disciples to bring him treasure and women as offerings.
• A woman blew gray smoke at Mu Bai, causing him to lose consciousness, and the Shen brothers ordered the disciples to hack him to death.
• The disciples and the youngest Shen brother struck Mu Bai repeatedly but could not cut him.

Mu Bai was captured and imprisoned while the villagers climbing Three Gods Mountain were attacked by wolves and received no help from the supposed gods. After Jing'er's grandfather rescued the survivors, the furious villagers stormed the Divine Palace and confronted the Shen Household brothers.

• The divine disciples bound the poisoned Mu Bai with the Divine Lock Chain and threw him into the dungeon while they waited for their master.
• Four mountain wolves attacked the exhausted villagers, killing more than a dozen as the survivors fled toward the summit.
• The village chief sent San Houzi to seek help from the gods, but the palace gates stayed shut and the wolves continued attacking.
• Jing'er's grandfather arrived with a group of people, driving the wolves away and rescuing the remaining villagers.
• San Houzi and the other survivors accused the gods of abandoning them, and Jing'er's grandfather led more than a hundred villagers to the Divine Palace gates.
• The palace gates opened, revealing white-robed followers kneeling before the three brothers of the Shen Household, who sat with halos around them.

The three Shen brothers used a monstrous apparition to make the villagers worship them, then killed Old Master Yang and San Houzi for resisting. Mu Bai remained imprisoned and helpless as the villagers delivered Jing'er to the Divine Palace as an offering, where the brothers decided to burn her.

• The Shen brothers summoned a Fierce Beast apparition and frightened the villagers into kneeling, then ordered Old Master Yang and San Houzi bound for opposing them.
• The brothers ordered Old Master Yang beheaded, and San Houzi was executed after he tried to expose the apparition as a fake.
• The villagers stayed kneeling beside the bodies even after the disciples left, while imprisoned Mu Bai watched helplessly and vowed to destroy the brothers.
• The village chief and his men brought bound Jing'er to the Divine Palace, where she saw her grandfather's corpse and begged the villagers to release her.
• The Shen brothers decided to burn Jing'er as an offering to preserve their control.

Mu Bai broke free of the Divine Lock Chain and recovered enough strength to confront the Shen brothers and their followers. He exposed their supposed gods as frauds, then forced them to turn on one another while the villagers watched.

• Jing'er was burned alive as Mu Bai watched helplessly, then he awakened and killed the two dungeon guards with White Rays.
• Mu Bai used the God-Devouring Insects to devour his numbed Divine Sense, freed himself from the Divine Lock Chain, and left the dungeon.
• Mu Bai destroyed the three golden divine statues, shocking the Shen brothers and the villagers.
• Mu Bai ordered the Shen brothers to kill the village chief, and their disciples hacked the chief to pieces.
• Mu Bai ordered the Shen brothers to kill their disciples, sparking a deadly fight in the palace courtyard.
• Mu Bai confronted the villagers and demanded that they see their gods and Divine Envoys for what they were.

Mu Bai destroyed the Divine Palace and fought Taowu, the World Beast behind its deception, until Taowu recognized the Phoenix-Holding Jade Cup and summoned Bai Jun. Bai Jun appeared and asked Mu Bai to calm his anger, proposing to erase the past few days.

• Mu Bai killed the Shen brothers and the God Disciples, ordered the villagers to take the women home, and demolished the Divine Palace.
• Taowu attacked Mu Bai, who battled him with his physical strength, demonic sword, and Immortal Race essence techniques.
• Taowu used his tusks, smoke, and swallowing vortex against Mu Bai, but Mu Bai kept fighting and stabbed him.
• The Phoenix-Holding Jade Cup flew toward Taowu, who recognized the Divine Phoenix Lord and bowed before it.
• Mu Bai realized Bai Jun was inside the cup, and Bai Jun appeared, asking Mu Bai to calm down and offering to erase the past few days.

Bai Jun revealed to Mu Bai that the human-beast wars were a generations-long performance meant to deceive the Immortal Race while the Origin Realm gathered strength for revenge. After learning of his repeated lives and possible destined rivalry with Hai Chen, Mu Bai left the Origin Realm to wage war among the stars of the Immortal Realm.

• Bai Jun showed Mu Bai his Inner World and revealed that he was Bai Zhi, while Mu Bai had been Bai Jun in a previous lifetime.
• Bai Jun told Mu Bai that he had reincarnated across many lifetimes and might face a destined foe, prompting Mu Bai to think of Hai Chen.
• Bai Jun explained that the Immortal Race had invaded the Origin Realm over twenty-three thousand years earlier, destroyed the heavenly net great dao, torn apart the human-beast great dao, and taken the World Tree.
• Bai Jun revealed that humans and beasts staged their wars to mislead the Immortal Race and secretly prepare fighters for a future battle.
• Mu Bai said he would see Bai Jun on the battlefield, used his Void Beast Soul Mark to leave the Origin Realm, and arrived at Peng City.

Mu Bai left the Beast Race territories with Shun Ying’s escort, then encountered a rat demon and his forces trying to kill him. Mu Bai fought off their ambush, but the battle remained unresolved as reinforcements arrived from Hong Luo’s domain.

• Shun Ying escorted Mu Bai beyond the borders of the Beast Race marshals’ domains before they parted ways.
• Mu Bai sensed nearly a hundred concealed enemies, and a short, stout rat demon ordered his forces to attack him with the Cloud Luo Heavenly Net.
• Mu Bai escaped underground, punched the rat demon, and summoned his three Soul Spirits to battle the attackers.
• Mu Bai killed more than a dozen enemies before the survivors joined into a Human-Faced Centipede that challenged him.
• Mu Bai blocked the centipede’s attacks and severed its tail spikes, while the rat demon watched and several figures arrived from Hong Luo’s domain.

Mu Bai defeated the short, fat old man and the Human-Faced Centipede, then trapped Hu Meier inside his Inner World. Hu Meier offered to teach him the Nine-Lives Technique as she explained its origin and her own three lives.

• Hu Meier arrived and joined the short, fat old man against Mu Bai, who fought them and the Human-Faced Centipede while trapped by the Cloud Luo Heavenly Net.
• Mu Bai destroyed the short, fat old man's ghostly bone whip with White Spirit Cold Flame, then killed him and took his Demon Core.
• Mu Bai killed the Human-Faced Centipede's hidden cultivator and summoned his three great Soul Spirits to slaughter the scattered enemies.
• Hu Meier tried to bewitch Mu Bai, but he attacked her and blocked her escape with the Void Beast's world-forming ability.
• Hu Meier offered to teach Mu Bai her cloning technique and explained that she had cultivated three lives through the Nine-Lives Technique.

Mu Bai forced Hu Meier to surrender the Nine-Lives Technique, then used it to create an avatar from his Silver-Backed Ape Soul Spirit. After discovering a trove of treasures and continuing toward Eastern Ridge, he reflected on humanity’s plight in the Beast Territory and sought news of the front lines.

• Hu Meier tried to stab Mu Bai while offering to impart the Nine-Lives Technique, but Mu Bai struck her down and forced her to hand over the method.
• Mu Bai studied the technique, released Hu Meier, and withdrew to the mountains to practice refining an avatar.
• Mu Bai placed a strand of his mind-spirit into the Silver-Backed Ape Soul Mark and made an ape avatar that copied his appearance and movements.
• Mu Bai searched the Many-Treasure Rat’s Mustard Seed Bag and found the Cloud Luo Heavenly Net, the Moon God Stone, Demon Cores, and many other valuables.
• Mu Bai continued toward Eastern Ridge, reflected on the suffering of humans in the Beast Territory, and stopped at cities to learn about the front lines.

Mu Bai encountered Qi Zhenzi in Peacock City and was drawn into the Three Arts Sect’s underground Array Offering Hall, where Qi assigned Xiao Liu to teach him. Mu Bai pretended to be an inexperienced disciple, and Xiao Liu demonstrated an Alerting Spirit Array that Mu Bai did not understand.

• Qi Zhenzi recognized Mu Bai as a potential recruit and persuaded him to join the Three Arts Sect.
• Qi Zhenzi dragged Mu Bai through a tunnel beneath a burial pit to the Array Offering Hall, where thousands of disciples worked on arrays.
• Qi Zhenzi assigned Xiao Liu to teach Mu Bai to engrave an Alerting Spirit Array and gave him two days to learn it.
• Mu Bai introduced himself as Hei Qi, and Xiao Liu took his Beast Cores and medicinal pills for safekeeping.
• Xiao Liu demonstrated how to engrave an Alerting Spirit Array, but Mu Bai admitted he had not understood it.

Mu Bai struggled to learn formation carving from Xiao Liu while Qi Zhenzi dealt with a threat to the Burial Pit. When a Demon General and a former disciple demanded the Evolutionary Formation Diagram, Qi Zhenzi revealed that he had not been injured and turned the tables with powerful formations.

• Xiao Liu showed Mu Bai how to carve an Alerting Spirit Array into soul jade, but Mu Bai repeatedly failed to control the carving pressure and connect the lines.
• After two days, Mu Bai had barely learned to carve formation lines evenly, and Qi Zhenzi gave him two more days to improve.
• Qi Zhenzi returned wounded and warned everyone to flee as hundreds of cultivators, a Demon General, and a middle-aged man entered the Burial Pit demanding the Evolutionary Formation Diagram.
• Qi Zhenzi accused the middle-aged man of betraying the Human Spirit Domain by colluding with the Beast Race, while the man urged Qi Zhenzi to surrender and serve him.
• Qi Zhenzi used his Formation Flag to blast the invading cultivators with thunder and trapped the Demon General and the middle-aged man outside a Spatial Separation Formation.
• Qi Zhenzi revealed that he had never been injured, bound the middle-aged man, and challenged the remaining attackers to stay and learn array offering from him.

Qi Zhenzi killed a traitorous Human Race Dao Zun and a Demon General, then expelled Mu Bai while leaving him a pattern from the Celestial Person Evolution Grand Formation to study. Mu Bai failed to copy it and resumed his journey, eventually reaching an empty settlement where snakes crept toward him in the darkness.

• Qi Zhenzi bound the cultivators with formations, killed the middle-aged man and the leading Demon General, and addressed the survivors as his new disciples.
• Qi Zhenzi rejected Mu Bai as a disciple because of his poor aptitude and appetite, but promised to accept him again if he carved one pattern from the Celestial Person Evolution Grand Formation.
• Qi Zhenzi marked a circle-and-person formation on Mu Bai's left arm and sent him back to the city street where they had first met.
• Mu Bai tried to copy the pattern into Soul Jade but was repeatedly drawn into a dark, disorienting void, so he gave up and continued toward Eastern Ridge.
• After two days of travel, Mu Bai entered an empty settlement and found rats hiding in a vacant residence.
• As night fell, several gray-and-white snakes crawled into the courtyard and approached Mu Bai's feet.