Recaps

Chu Xisheng slaughtered six powerful Giant Spirits who tried to block his way, then learned that the Heavenly Secret Pavilion had ranked him tenth on the Heavenly Ranking. God Seven Killings and Turnwheel Star Lord decided he had to be eliminated, and sent Huang Tian Ting to intercept his ship.

• Ye Zhiqiu identified Huang Shilong and the other Giant Spirits as high-ranked opponents, and she repelled Huang Shilong's first attack on the Heaven-Pacifying Treasure Ship.
• Chu Xisheng faced the six Giant Spirits alone, using his saber arts, blood astral force, and zither music to kill them one after another in seven strikes.
• Chu Xisheng poured wine onto the deck as an offering to Lang Beiwang, then continued north after replenishing his primordial yang power.
• Zong Sanping told Chu Xisheng that the Heavenly Secret Pavilion had ranked him tenth and named him No Two Suns in the Sky, Unrivaled Past and Present.
• God Seven Killings and Turnwheel Star Lord watched the battle and agreed that Chu Xisheng had to be killed, despite Turnwheel Star Lord's suspicion that the journey might be a trap.
• Huang Tian Ting volunteered to intercept Chu Xisheng, and God Seven Killings sent him toward the Heaven-Pacifying Treasure Ship.

Changsun Ruoli ordered an assault on Changsun Ruolan’s camp, fearing Chu Xisheng would arrive before she could defeat the rebels. As Chu Xisheng met Huang Tian Ting, he used his newly strengthened cold arts to freeze the Giant Spirit and began pouring more power into the ice.

• Qin Sheng told Changsun Ruoli that Chu Xisheng had killed six powerful Giant Spirits and warned her that Huang Tian Ting was preparing to intercept him.
• Changsun Ruoli ordered her troops to attack Changsun Ruolan’s camp, and Changsun Ruolan watched her sister with anger and grief.
• News of Chu Xisheng’s victories spread through Wang'an City, where God-Tiger Chang borrowed more money from Fang Buyuan to bet on Chu Xisheng.
• Chu Xisheng sensed God Seven Killings suppressing his saber intent, saved two hundred Wish Stones, and used Heavenly Origin Points to strengthen his saber arts, Divine Heart, and cold-based abilities.
• Huang Tian Ting confronted Chu Xisheng and attacked the Heaven-Pacifying Treasure Ship, but Chu Xisheng answered with Cold Severance and sealed him inside a massive block of ice.
• Chu Xisheng drove his saber into the ice and continuously infused it with cold power, leaving Huang Tian Ting fearing he would be frozen to death.

Chu Xisheng froze Huang Tian Ting with a single strike, prompting Xie Zhenqing to report his strength and Qin Sheng’s forces to launch a desperate attack. As God Seven Killings weighed whether to intervene, he chose to meet the coming confrontation rather than withdraw.

• Chu Xisheng sealed Huang Tian Ting in a growing block of ice, and Xie Zhenqing sent Martial Discourse Tower a report on his strength and techniques.
• Xie Zhenqing watched Chu Xisheng fly onward atop the ice and reconsidered her family’s warnings not to oppose him.
• Qin Sheng told Changsun Ruoli that Chu Xisheng had defeated Huang Tian Ting, and she ordered the Xuangui Army and Qin Sheng’s troops to attack the camp regardless of casualties.
• Turnwheel Star Lord asked God Seven Killings to free Huang Tian Ting, but God Seven Killings refused and explained that only a demigod could kill Chu Xisheng.
• Turnwheel Star Lord described the resistance posed by Li Changsheng and Su Fengdao, while God Seven Killings urged him to choose between fighting and retreating.
• God Seven Killings took up one of the seven swords and decided to test the trap set for him and confront the enemy.

Emperor Jianyuan returned to Wang'an City and faced a growing political crisis as Chu Xisheng’s success and the sects’ demands threatened Great Ning’s rule. Meanwhile, Chu Xisheng’s escort north was ambushed by the Seven Killings and Turnwheel Star Lords, but the Formless Divine Sect’s hidden defenses revealed an unexpected dual True Spirit.

• Emperor Jianyuan learned that Chu Xisheng had frozen Huang Tian Ting and privately worried that Chu had gained the power meant for him.
• Consort Zhuang told Emperor Jianyuan that major sects and clans demanded an accounting for the court’s alleged collusion with the Giant Spirits, and he planned to deny responsibility and redirect their attention.
• Chu Xisheng considered spending his Wish Stones to master Wen Suyi’s cold-sealing techniques, then abandoned the idea and continued freezing Huang Tian Ting.
• The Seven Killings Star Lord and Turnwheel Star Lord attacked the Heaven-Pacifying Treasure Ship, but Jian Zangfeng’s Heaven-Measuring power and Lu Luanli’s Heaven-Rending Purple-Gold Hammer disrupted their assault.
• The Taiwei Enclosure’s Three Emperors’ Divine Eyes struck the Turnwheel Star Lord, and the Seven Killings Star Lord intervened before the attack could kill him.
• Jian Zangfeng revealed a second divine sword and weakened the Seven Killings Star Lord’s power, exposing himself as a dual True Spirit of Heaven-Pacifying and Heaven-Measuring.

Chu Xisheng and his allies overwhelmed the weakened Seven Killings Star Lord and Turnwheel Star Lord through coordinated attacks, temporal interference, and Jian Zangfeng’s Heaven-Regulating sword art. Turnwheel Star Lord died, while Shi Zhiming captured Seven Killings Star Lord’s severed arm as the promised payment and a bargaining chip for reclaiming the Chronos Divine Disk.

• Chu Xisheng fought Seven Killings Star Lord head-on, healing his wounds as the two exchanged devastating blows.
• Mai Danshu’s Heaven-Covering sword intent appeared, and Jian Zangfeng’s Heaven-Pacifying Treasure Ship kept Turnwheel Star Lord from intervening.
• Shi Zhiming emerged from the past to hinder Seven Killings Star Lord, while a dragon-shaped attack struck him and Jian Zangfeng erased Heaven-Covering Arts within two thousand li.
• Chu Xisheng’s Divine Mirror Heavenly Saber gathered hostile killing intent across a vast area, prompting Qin Sheng and Dugu Shou to order their troops to scatter.
• Chu Yunyun arrived and killed Turnwheel Star Lord with the God-Defying Banner Spear after Chu Xisheng’s saber strike disrupted him.
• Chu Xisheng struck Seven Killings Star Lord with another Divine-Intent Saber, and Shi Zhiming crushed his head and sealed the severed arm.

Chu Xisheng used the Divine Mirror Heavenly Saber to kill enemy forces across the battlefield, then negotiated with Shi Zhiming and watched Jian Zangfeng’s hidden strength cause friction with Ye Zhiqiu. After the battle, Chu Xisheng discovered his fortune had risen to supreme, leaving him puzzled by the Primordial Profound Goddess’s favor despite his aid to Zhu Guangyin.

• Chu Xisheng seized God Seven Killings’ seven swords, slew fourteen Giant Spirits, and struck down tens of thousands of Great Ning soldiers with repeated saber attacks.
• Changsun Ruoli escaped Chu Xisheng’s strike with the Heavenly Dipper Art, while Changsun Ruolan pursued the leaderless rebels and Ice City soldiers came out to accept their surrender.
• Chu Yunyun gave Shi Zhiming the Heavenly Cycle Divine Wheel in exchange for a Divine Covenant promising Chu Xisheng and her temporal sequence true spirit standings; Shi Zhiming also gave Chu Xisheng a Turnwheel Dao Beacon.
• Chu Yunyun praised Jian Zangfeng’s three true spirit standings, but Ye Zhiqiu grew angry at his concealed strength and he hurried after her; Chu Yunyun then left after looking at Wen Zhuyi frozen in ice.
• Chu Xisheng checked his rising Heavenly Origin Points and Wish Stones, then discovered his Primordial Divine Fortune had advanced to supreme and granted him the Primordial Profound Goddess’s protection.

After Chu Xisheng and his allies killed Turnwheel Star Lord and captured Seven Killings’ divine hand, news of the battle spread and Emperor Jianyuan began preparing to counter Chu Xisheng’s growing power. Meanwhile, Shen Jingli was ordered to recover Seven Killings’ arm from Chu Xisheng as she prepared to descend to the Mortal Realm to kill him.

• The Heavenly Secret Elder and the Heavenly Stems Hall Master discussed the gods’ losses and planned to rank Chu Xisheng among the Heavenly Ranking’s top five while limiting what the Heavenly Secret Martial Manual revealed.
• Martial cultivators in Wang’an City spread news that Chu Xisheng and Chu Yunyun had slain Turnwheel Star Lord and captured a manifestation of Seven Killings, while Emperor Jianyuan learned of Chu Xisheng’s victories and growing army.
• Emperor Jianyuan asked Yu Kunlun how to counter the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber, then considered mass-producing Bamboo-Stone War Puppets and using a Heaven-Gazing Hou army.
• Shen Jingli learned that Cang Haishi’s death had cost her a portion of wish-fulfillment divine source, and she asked Shen Putian to watch the Old Sage, the Primordial Profound Goddess, and Chu Xisheng.
• Baizhu summoned Shen Jingli and ordered her to recover Seven Killings’ divine hand from Chu Xisheng while she descended to the Mortal Realm to eliminate him.

Chu Xisheng left Wen Suyi protected in the Li Tan Catacomb and persuaded Lu Luanli to accompany him while he sought secret medicine to advance his cultivation. At Mount Buzhou, he subdued Huang Tianqi and declared that he would use the Grayblood Clan chief’s blood to refine secret medicine, then challenged the Southern Heavenly Emperor Huang Tianyan to come fight him.

• Luo Hanzong and the spellcasters’ academy completed an array around Wen Suyi, while the Formless Divine Sect prepared to guard her and the Eastmost Icefield.
• After Chu Yunyun departed, Chu Xisheng asked Lu Luanli to accompany him on a journey to find secret medicine and strengthen their cultivation.
• Chu Xisheng explained that Jian Zangfeng would manage the Iron Banner Gang’s internal affairs and that he had become a true spirit of Hundun, easing Lu Luanli’s concerns about leaving the gang.
• At Mount Buzhou, Chu Xisheng identified Grayblood Clan chief Huang Tianqi as a source of upper third-grade secret medicine because of his powerful Hundun bloodline.
• Chu Xisheng’s saber intent forced Huang Tianqi to kneel and kept the Grayblood Giant Spirits at bay as he announced that he would take Huang Tianqi’s blood.
• Chu Xisheng called out to Huang Tianyan and challenged the Southern Heavenly Emperor to come down from Mount Buzhou and fight him.

Chu Xisheng forced Mount Buzhou’s leaders to watch in silence as he killed Huang Tianqi and refined his blood into a Hundun Bloodstone. He then drank the completed secret medicine and slaughtered the Grayblood Tribe’s able-bodied warriors, leaving Mount Buzhou’s response unresolved.

• Huang Tianyan restrained his anger after his ministers warned him that Chu Xisheng was prepared to exploit the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber and that the Fire God Yanrong’s resurrection was their priority.
• Chu Xisheng challenged Huang Tianyan and Mount Buzhou’s other powerhouses, but none dared confront him, while the Grayblood Tribe’s slaves and warriors watched in disbelief.
• Chu Xisheng declared that he would kill the Grayblood Tribe’s able-bodied adults, then killed resisting First-Rank Giant Spirits and their Imperial Guards as Huang Tianqi struggled against his saber intent.
• Chu Xisheng beheaded Huang Tianqi, drew out his blood and vital energy to create a Hundun Bloodstone, and mixed it with prepared ingredients to make a secret medicine.
• Chu Xisheng drank the medicine, and his saber intent killed the hundred thousand Giant Spirit Young Warriors around him as his blood-red wings devoured their blood, vital energy, and Essence Souls.

Chu Xisheng advanced to upper third grade and confronted Huang Tianyan outside the Divine Emperor Palace, forcing Mount Buzhou to return stolen Poison Pearls and Heaven-Gazing Hou clones. He also demanded an end to Mount Buzhou’s abuses of humans, then departed with Lu Luanli while anticipating another battle.

• Chu Xisheng advanced to upper third grade, strengthened his golden body, and demonstrated his new saber move, Limitless Divine Vortex.
• Chu Xisheng challenged Huang Tianyan outside the Divine Emperor Palace, and their powers shattered many of its restrictive barriers before they agreed to negotiate.
• Huang Tianyan returned twenty-two Poison Pearls, experimental records, and three Heaven-Gazing Hou clones, but said the two remaining Poison Pearls were in the Divine Land.
• Chu Xisheng demanded that Mount Buzhou stop sacrificing humans, obstructing their cultivation, and preventing them from traveling south, threatening to slaughter any clan that disobeyed.
• Chu Xisheng returned to the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel and explained to Lu Luanli that he had pressured Mount Buzhou to stir its internal conflicts; he said he might need her Divine Treasure for another battle.
• Huang Tianyan watched Chu Xisheng depart into the clouds, then transformed into blazing flames.

After advancing at Mount Buzhou, Chu Xisheng gained a new hundun bloodline and strengthened several talents, then used his improved cold arts to repel Huang Tianyan’s ambush while escaping aboard the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel. Shen Jingli arrived too late to intercept him and began trying to predict where he would go next.

• Chu Xisheng discovered the hundun true source bloodline, upgraded several talents, and redeemed a Heaven and Earth Root to potentially reforge his cultivation body.
• Chu Xisheng tested two Wish Stones and rapidly raised his cold-related martial intents, learning new mysteries of the Snow-Crouching Divine Saber.
• Huang Tianyan and two giant spirits caught up with Chu Xisheng’s vessel and attacked, but Chu Xisheng erased their flames and Lu Luanli disrupted Huang Tianyan’s power.
• Chu Xisheng reflected Huang Tianyan’s lightning attack and struck him with freezing saber arts, wounding him before the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel escaped.
• Shen Jingli arrived at Mount Buzhou after Chu Xisheng had left and began guessing his next destination because her divinations could not pierce the Primordial Profound Goddess’s protection.

Chu Xisheng visited Li Mountain to awaken Little Flathead’s wisdom and received a mysterious substance that could help him advance, while Li Mountain Old Mother reacted strongly to his question about Supreme Yin and Supreme Yang. After warning him to reach First-Rank within two years, she sent him away with a hidden crisis looming over the world.

• Chu Xisheng brought the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel to Li Mountain, where Madam Hanguang and Qiu Tian Nian led a gathering of demons in welcoming him.
• Li Mountain Old Mother granted Chu Xisheng all four of the year’s Divine Wisdom Spring places after Qiu Tian Nian urged her to do so, and Chu Xisheng offered her medicinal gifts.
• Li Mountain Old Mother gave Chu Xisheng a mysterious substance that could help him advance and refused to reveal the identity of the person who had entrusted it to her.
• When Chu Xisheng asked about Supreme Yin and Supreme Yang converging in one body, Li Mountain Old Mother reacted with alarm and told him never to discuss the matter with others.
• Li Mountain Old Mother warned Chu Xisheng to reach First-Rank within two years, and a month later he departed Li Mountain with Little Flathead newly awakened and stronger.

Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli discussed the gods’ dependence on the world’s source power and the looming danger of blood sacrifices, while Chu Xisheng continued toward Hanzhou to find Chu Ming. After Shen Jingli confronted Li Mountain Old Mother Xuan Qiushui and escaped her attack, Xuan Qiushui resolved to protect Chu Xisheng, believing he could gain the power to break the Diwa Seal.

• Lu Luanli asked how Li Mountain Old Mother and Ji Yang could reach such great strength despite the Divine Covenant, and Chu Xisheng explained that they cultivated inner universes without relying on the world’s origin essence.
• Chu Xisheng told Lu Luanli that foul qi was spreading and that the gods might use blood offerings to ease their source addiction, potentially bringing slaughter to the Divine Land.
• Little Flathead challenged Bai Xiao Zhao to another fight, but Chu Xisheng stopped the two spirit pets after their earlier battles had endangered his hair.
• Lu Luanli planned to advance her cultivation body, while Chu Xisheng said he was heading to Hanzhou to find Chu Ming, whose cultivation body had reached upper first-rank.
• Shen Jingli confronted Xuan Qiushui on Li Mountain, but Xuan Qiushui attacked with the power of Years and forced Shen Jingli to flee after she threatened to return with the gods.
• Xuan Qiushui concluded that Chu Xisheng’s bloodline could fuse Supreme Yin and Supreme Yang and give him the power to break the Diwa Seal, so she resolved to protect his advancement.

Chu Ming accepted Emperor Jianyuan’s task of protecting medicine merchants and disrupting the Iron Banner Gang’s trade, hoping to gain pills that could help her rival Chu Xisheng. Chu Xisheng confronted her and Wangqi Luohou, then let them escape while vowing to kill Chu Ming within three months; afterward, he revealed his interest in her potential as a Baleful Corpse and set out with Lu Luanli to retrieve the Martial Might Heavenly King’s legacy near Wang'an City.

• Chu Ming killed a Red-Eyed Saber Mantis and met Wangqi Luohou, who praised her first-rank cultivation and Heavenly Ranking strength.
• Wangqi Luohou delivered Emperor Jianyuan’s gifts and request that Chu Ming protect medicine merchants in Youzhou and Ice Province and keep their trade route open; Chu Ming agreed in exchange for rare pills.
• Chu Xisheng appeared, dismissed Chu Ming’s accusations over her family’s deaths, and attacked her and Wangqi Luohou with his Heaven-Executing Saber.
• Wangqi Luohou used a transcendent-rank escape art to carry Chu Ming away, while Chu Xisheng pursued them and threatened to kill her within three months.
• Chu Xisheng told Lu Luanli he wanted Chu Ming as a potential Baleful Corpse, congratulated her on reaching Third-Rank, and said they would retrieve the Martial Might Heavenly King’s legacy near Wang'an City before going to Guixu.

Chu Ming fled to Wang'an City after Chu Xisheng hunted her down, but he soon attacked the Imperial City and overwhelmed Emperor Jianyuan’s defenses. As Chu Xisheng approached the palace, Imperial Preceptor Yu Kunlun confronted him and vowed to stop him.

• Chu Ming escaped to Wang'an City with Wangqi Luohou and went to seek help and resources from Emperor Jianyuan.
• At the palace, Chu Ming saw Changsun Bingquan leaving and learned that he had been enfeoffed as Extreme Eastern Commandery Prince and favored by the Emperor.
• Chu Ming told Emperor Jianyuan that Chu Xisheng had defeated her and had vowed to kill her within three months, then asked for pills to strengthen herself.
• Chu Xisheng swept the Imperial City with his Divine Sense and struck Yan Ying Hall, overpowering Emperor Jianyuan’s Dragon Qi and injuring Chu Ming, Wangqi Luohou, and palace spellcasters.
• Chu Xisheng advanced through the Imperial City as its gates and walls collapsed, while officials and spectators watched from a distance.
• Yu Kunlun appeared at the fallen Meridian Gate, put everyone in Wang'an City below the third rank to sleep, and challenged Chu Xisheng before the palace.

Chu Xisheng overwhelmed the Imperial Court’s forces at the Meridian Gate after Yu Kunlun suppressed his Yazi power, then revealed his Wish-Fulfillment and Cold-Sealing abilities and fought Yu Kunlun to a standstill. When Zong Shenhua’s Sunflame Power approached Wang’an City, Chu Xisheng withdrew, leaving Yu Kunlun to reckon with how formidable he had become.

• Chu Xisheng broke through Yu Kunlun’s dream-based suppression, and Yu Kunlun transformed into a crystal flood dragon as Xiao Hongchen, Chu Rulai, Yuwen Ba, and other experts attacked.
• Chu Xisheng restored his Silver-Mirror Saber Astral Force with Wish-Fulfillment, killing Yuwen Ba and injuring several nearby first-rank cultivators with his Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber.
• Chu Xisheng unleashed Ice River Age, freezing Yu Kunlun’s dragon claw, Emperor Jianyuan’s golden sword, Yuwen Ba, and numerous Imperial Court experts; Chu Ming shielded Chu Rulai but was also briefly trapped in the ice.
• Chu Xisheng and Yu Kunlun fought fiercely at the Meridian Gate, while Chu Xisheng’s cold and saber intent steadily overwhelmed Yu Kunlun and damaged the surrounding palace grounds.
• Chu Xisheng sensed Zong Shenhua’s Sunflame Power approaching from the south and vanished, while Yu Kunlun realized that Chu Xisheng had become an exceptionally dangerous opponent.

After escaping Wang'an City, Chu Xisheng returned to his vessel while Emperor Jianyuan sought help from Zong Shenhua and arranged to strengthen Chu Ming. Chu Xisheng then opened Lie King's Treasure with Lu Luanli, anticipating an unexpected visitor.

• Yu Kunlun and Zong Shenhua pursued Chu Xisheng but lost his trail, recognizing that his escape techniques made him difficult to capture.
• Wang Tiandong and Ding Cangsheng discussed the Imperial Court's weakening authority and the Aristocratic Clans' decision not to intervene in the battle.
• Emperor Jianyuan offered to increase Chu Ming's power through a risky secret art, and she agreed; he then persuaded Zong Shenhua to remain in Wang'an City.
• Chu Xisheng returned to the Sun-Bathing Divine Vessel and lent Lu Luanli sixteen of Wen Suyi's Cloudsea Sword Puppets to add to her own eight.
• Chu Xisheng used the Myriad Manifestations Star Disc and a flame resembling Chu Yunyun's God-Defying Fire to open Lie King's Treasure, then entered with Lu Luanli.
• A composed woman in a white blouse and skirt arrived at the abandoned graves shortly after Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli entered the treasure.

Shen Jingli tracked Chu Xisheng to a hidden gate and retreated when she sensed a lethal danger inside. Beyond it, Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli discovered the missing Divine Martial Armored Soldiers and their sleeping commander, Ming Qianqiu, whose awakening would trigger Apotheosis; Chu Xisheng then noticed a scroll bearing the Nine-Turn War God Art.

• Shen Jingli found a hidden gate at the desolate grave and learned from Shen Putian that it led to Lie King's Treasure, where she suspected Chu Xisheng might have set a trap.
• Shen Putian explained that Ming Qianqiu's army had vanished after its victory over the gods, while the Divine Martial Kingdom later collapsed through internal strife.
• Shen Jingli opened the gate with God-Defying Fire, sensed a terrifying presence inside, and retreated before entering.
• Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli surveyed more than two hundred thousand metal-bodied Divine Martial Armored Soldiers and found Ming Qianqiu, the Loyal and Righteous Eternal-Life Great Emperor, and Du Tianyue asleep on metalized Four-Legged Flying Dragons.
• Lu Luanli realized Ming Qianqiu and his army could be awakened and controlled, but Chu Xisheng warned that Ming Qianqiu was poised to undergo Apotheosis and would draw attacks from powerful gods.
• Chu Xisheng spotted a scroll before Ming Qianqiu bearing the words Nine-Turn War God Art.

Chu Xisheng inherited the Nine Revolutions War God Art, strengthened his body with the baleful force of the Divine Martial Armored Soldiers, and learned that Shen Jingli had left. Meanwhile, Shen Jingli discovered that Emperor Jianyuan and Changsun Bingquan had achieved yin-yang unity, advancing the plot to break Diwa’s seal.

• Chu Xisheng took Ming Qianqiu’s Nine Revolutions War God Art and used Heavenly Origin Points to replace his Ninefold Refinement Ultimate Origin Purple-Gold Body with it.
• Chu Xisheng tested his newly strengthened Golden Body Overlord Physique by letting Lu Luanli slash him, then stopped her when she reached for the Heaven-Rending Purple-Gold Hammer.
• Chu Xisheng took custody of Ming Qianqiu’s jade seal and collected the legacies held by Mu Tianzhao and Du Tianyue.
• Chu Xisheng absorbed the Geng Metal Baleful Force from the 210,000 Divine Martial Armored Soldiers, then discovered Shen Jingli had left the area.
• Shen Putian told Shen Jingli that the Three Great Heaven Administrators had announced yin-yang unity, achieved through Changsun Bingquan’s Pure Yin Body and the Reversal of Yin and Yang Method.
• Emperor Jianyuan rose from bed after joining yin and yang with Changsun Bingquan, while she remained dazed and unaware of what had happened.

Changsun Bingquan discovered that Emperor Jianyuan had transformed her into a woman and bound her with a spell, then brought her to the Overlord Martial King Mausoleum. There, Shen Jingli confronted Jianyuan over his union of yin and yang, but vanished after warning him that the gods who aided him might abandon him.

• Changsun Bingquan awoke in a female body, realized Emperor Jianyuan had altered her, and tried to attack him before a binding art rendered her helpless.
• Emperor Jianyuan had Changsun Bingquan dressed as his consort and took her to the Overlord Martial King Mausoleum, where Chu Ming arrived after reporting her rapid cultivation gains and severe loss of lifespan.
• Emperor Jianyuan displayed his power over yin and yang as a white-clad woman appeared and identified herself through Yu Kunlun as Shen Jingli, the Lord of Wish-Fulfillment and Purity.
• Shen Jingli overwhelmed Jianyuan with star power and demanded that he discard the supreme yin power, while Yu Kunlun defended his sovereign and invoked the stars that remained unmoved.
• Shen Jingli warned Jianyuan that the gods and Yu Kunlun were using him, offered protection for his descendants if he changed course, and disappeared, leaving Jianyuan silently contemplating her warning.

Emperor Jianyuan tried to turn Chu Ming into a corpse-bound weapon, claiming the sacrifice would strengthen Great Ning against its enemies. Chu Ming’s relatives failed to save her, and Yu Kunlun sealed her consciousness as she lay in the coffin.

• After Shen Jingli departed, Emperor Jianyuan ordered Imperial Preceptor Yu Kunlun to return Grand Preceptor Dugu Shou’s divided soul so he could advance to transcendent rank.
• Emperor Jianyuan gave Chu Ming two pills and revealed a plan to bind the souls of a Three-Legged Golden Crow and a Yazi to her as corpse beasts.
• Yu Kunlun, Emperor Jianyuan, Zong Shenhua, and Consort Zhuang subdued Chu Ming and forced her to swallow the pills, but she briefly broke free using the Blood-Yazi Saber.
• Chu Rulai and Chu Xuanjie arrived and begged Emperor Jianyuan to spare Chu Ming, but he rewarded the Chu Family members and continued with the plan.
• Chu Ming realized the Chu Family had abandoned her and regretted her past treatment of Chu Xisheng before Yu Kunlun drove Origin-Sealing Nails into her and her consciousness sank into darkness.

Chu Xisheng learned that Emperor Jianyuan was turning Chu Ming into a Near-God-level corpse puppet and prepared to seize it through Luo Hanzong’s Reversal of Yin and Yang. After leaving the Treasury, Chu Xisheng traveled to Guixu to improve his Yazi Heavenly Order, where the Wooden Sword Immortal, Song Yannian, appeared.

• Chu Xisheng sensed Chu Ming’s death and learned that Emperor Jianyuan was using the remnant souls and remains of two Eternity-level divine beasts to create a Near-God-level corpse puppet, which Chu Xisheng planned to seize.
• Chu Xisheng explained that Lu Chen had tampered with the Twelve-Capital Divine Dragon Nation-Guarding Grand Array, giving Luo Hanzong a chance to help him take control of Chu Ming’s corpse puppet.
• Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli left the Treasury for Guixu, while Du Tianyue sealed the Treasury behind them; Shen Jingli decided to undermine Emperor Jianyuan by making his corpse poison flare up rather than attacking him directly.
• At Guixu, Chu Xisheng spent Wish Stones to boost his and his companions’ comprehension while studying the Yazi sculpture, and Little Flathead manifested a Yazi Heavenly Order Dharma Aspect as a Yazi True Spirit.
• After thirty days of study, Chu Xisheng turned and found the Wooden Sword Immortal, Song Yannian, standing behind him.

Chu Xisheng left Guixu with Lu Luanli after revealing his life-bound Eastern Emperor Mirror and was summoned by the corpse ancestors Han Ba and Hou Qing. Meanwhile, Consort Zhuang brought the Great Luo Blood Seal to the Great Luo Ant Queen, and they planned to break the clan’s seal and kill Chu Xisheng during Great Ning’s coming offensive.

• Lu Luanli questioned Chu Xisheng about the Wooden Sword Immortal’s visit and her sudden leaps in understanding, and Chu Xisheng revealed that his life-bound Eastern Emperor Mirror could fulfill wishes given enough faith, wishes, and divine power.
• Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli prepared to leave Guixu for the Iron Banner Gang, while Lu Luanli accepted the Ice Heart Flower and the two beasts fought above Chu Xisheng’s head.
• Four corpse kings invited Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli to meet their masters, Han Ba and Hou Qing, at Ruin Heart.
• Consort Zhuang entered Ten-Thousand-Cave Mountain and presented the Great Luo Blood Seal to the Great Luo Ant Queen, who began cracking it to free the clan.
• Consort Zhuang and the Great Luo Ant Queen agreed to target Chu Xisheng during Great Ning’s offensive, believing they could kill him before he mastered the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber’s counter to their clan.

Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli reached the depths of Guixu, where Chu Xisheng discovered that the Ruin Heart was calling to his Hundun cultivation body and met the Corpse Ancestors Han Ba and Hou Qing. They asked him to reverse the First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou’s yin-yang nature, explaining that it could turn the gods’ weapon against them, but the feat depended on Chu Xisheng winning the people’s trust and gathering their collective will.

• Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli advanced into the Ruin Heart’s extreme pressure and radiation, while Chu Xisheng used mirrorlike saber light to shield them from the violent particles.
• Chu Xisheng discovered that the Ruin Heart called to him and that his Hundun true essence accelerated as he approached Han Ba and Hou Qing.
• Han Ba and Hou Qing asked Chu Xisheng to reverse the yin-yang nature of the Heaven-Gazing Hou after he unified the Divine Land.
• Han Ba revealed that the First-Generation Heaven-Gazing Hou had never died, and Chu Xisheng questioned how the gods had been kept unaware.
• Hou Qing explained that reversing the Heaven-Gazing Hou’s utmost-yin nature would make its poison target the gods, while Han Ba and Hou Qing offered their loyalty and help refining it.
• Hou Qing said the Third-Generation Sage Emperor had lacked enough dragon qi for the reversal, and that Chu Xisheng would need the people’s profound trust and collective will.

Chu Xisheng weighed the Four Great Corpse Ancestors’ proposal and investigated the secret beneath Ji Yang's Tomb before returning to find the Iron Banner Gang at war. News that the Great Luo Ant Clan had broken its seals sent him toward Liangzhou, while Lu Luanli stayed to oversee the western front.

• Chu Xisheng and Lu Luanli discussed the corpse ancestors’ proposal to reverse the Heaven-Gazing Hou’s yin and yang, and Chu Xisheng agreed to keep in contact without committing to the costly plan.
• Chu Xisheng visited Ji Yang, returned the poison pearls, collected tentacles, and received permission to inspect the sealed space beneath Ji Yang's Tomb.
• Chu Xisheng returned to the Iron Banner Gang Main Headquarters and learned that Shui Canglang had retaken Tong Commandery while the Imperial Court pressed its river-crossing offensive.
• Jian Zangfeng received word that the Great Luo Ant Clan was breaking free of its seals in Liangzhou, causing mass casualties, and Chu Xisheng suspected Emperor Jianyuan had engineered the crisis as a diversion.
• Chu Xisheng left for Liangzhou despite Jian Zangfeng's warning that the ants might be prepared for his Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber, and he assigned Lu Luanli to watch the western front.