Recaps

Wang Ba and Zhaojie discovered that Venerable Xinyuan had died long ago, leaving behind a demonic heart demon that drained law power and wielded an immense Dao Domain. As Xinyuan’s heart demon attacked them, the Ten-Thousand-Buddha Śarīra Pagoda intervened and exposed it, allowing Wang Ba to pin it with the Vajra Pestle.

• Wang Ba protected Zhaojie from the force draining his law power, and Venerable Xinyuan awakened and recognized Zhaojie and the Myriad Phenomena Sect.
• When Zhaojie recalled Cilu and Cizhao dying during the Great Flood, Xinyuan remembered that his attempt to save all living beings had drained his disciples’ law power and killed them.
• Xinyuan revealed that he had entered nirvana and that the being before them was his heart demon, which had become demonic and attacked Wang Ba and Zhaojie.
• Wang Ba tried to escape Xinyuan’s enormous Dao Domain, but Xinyuan revealed a True Membrane Eye in his chest and hurled the fractured Vajra Pestle at them.
• The Yuan Magnetism Rail Man sensed the distant Void Refinement power, while the Ice Daoist sensed a disturbance but returned to meditation.
• Wang Ba used his Yuan Magnetism Rail Domain and Xuanhuang Dao Domain to restrain the Vajra Pestle as the Ten-Thousand-Buddha Śarīra Pagoda forced Xinyuan’s demonic phantom from his body, and Wang Ba drove the Vajra Pestle into it.

Wang Ba learned how Venerable Xinyuan’s attempt to stop the Great Flood had led to catastrophe and confronted the demonic obsession haunting him. Xinyuan attained enlightenment, entrusted treasures to Wang Ba and Zhaojie, and carried Wang Ba away as he emerged beyond the Little Cang Realm.

• Wang Ba divined Xinyuan’s past and saw how a World Eater widened a true membrane eye, how Xinyuan tried to seal it and absorb the flood, and how his actions drained the Spiritual Qi and doomed Xituo Continent’s monks and mortals.
• Wang Ba told Xinyuan’s demonic obsession that he could not have prevented the Great Calamity alone and urged him to know his own limits, causing the phantom’s demonic intent to dissipate and Xinyuan to attain enlightenment.
• Xinyuan explained that his enlightenment would lead to Nirvana and possibly ascension, warned Wang Ba not to be consumed by fear of the coming Great Calamity, and offered to accept him as a Buddhist disciple.
• Xinyuan entrusted his vajra to Zhaojie for his disciple and gave him Xituo Continent’s accumulated treasures, then gave Wang Ba a fifth-tier Sea Pearl.
• Xinyuan’s phantom sent Zhaojie back to shore, carried Wang Ba away, and emerged in pure white Buddhist light through a tiny hole in the Boundary Membrane outside the Little Cang Realm.

Wang Ba watched Venerable Xinyuan enter nirvana outside the Little Cang Realm, received his Buddhist cultivation insights, and used his śarīra to nurture a new incarnation. As the Origin Embryo began to hatch, a dim star in the Boundary Sea suddenly lit up.

• Venerable Xinyuan brought Wang Ba outside the realm, where Wang Ba recorded the Boundary Sea’s stars as a new Stars Diagram.
• Surrounded by fifth-tier World Eaters, Venerable Xinyuan summoned a golden Buddha hand and a Wisdom King Buddha statue to devour them, then taught Wang Ba the Buddhist scripture Yuan Void Formlessness.
• Venerable Xinyuan entered nirvana, leaving his śarīra and physical body’s essence for Wang Ba to use in creating an incarnation; Wang Ba narrowly avoided a sixth-tier black dog.
• Wang Ba began nurturing an Origin Embryo from the śarīra, drawing in Xinyuan’s essence and blood, then Buddhist light and chanting, while his divine beasts fought and consumed approaching World Eaters.
• Wang Ba discovered that he could no longer alter the lifespan of World Eaters or his spirit beasts, but could still use the ability on a spirit chicken, and he resolved himself after considering the change.
• After the Origin Embryo matured, a crack opened in its surface, and a previously dim star in the Boundary Sea abruptly lit up.

Wang Ba’s new incarnation, Kongchanzi, emerged from the Origin Embryo and rapidly reached fourth-tier perfection by absorbing primal chaos source substance from Venerable Xinyuan’s body. After explaining his vow to make the world safer, Kongchanzi set out for Xituo Continent, where a tribulation immediately struck him.

• As the Origin Embryo opened, stars lit up across the Boundary Sea, and Wang Ba’s newborn incarnation emerged with a dramatic display that Wang Ba cut short.
• A sixth-tier World Eater appeared at Venerable Xinyuan’s body, but Wang Ba and the divine beasts escaped into the realm through the membrane eye.
• Wang Ba named the child Kongchanzi, who absorbed primal chaos source substance and rapidly advanced to fourth-tier perfection.
• Kongchanzi told Wang Ba that his cultivation followed faith, vow, practice, and realization, and that his vow was to keep the world’s living beings safe.
• Wang Ba sent Kongchanzi toward Xituo Continent, where a Gold Core and Nascent Soul Tribulation struck him and he cried out for Wang Ba’s help.

Wang Ba sent Zhaojie to deliver the first edition of the Stars Diagram to his incarnation, then entered Venerable Xinyuan’s body and discovered the vast reach of Xinyuan’s Dao Domain. From the Lotus Throne, Wang Ba began sensing the Boundary Membrane and glimpsed a corner of the Dao that formed the Little Cang Realm.

• Wang Ba gave Zhaojie the Stars Diagram to take to his incarnation and warned him not to study it for long.
• Zhaojie examined the diagram, felt its guidance on his cultivation and the depletion of his Seven-Colored Śarīra, then hurried toward the North Sea Continent.
• Wang Ba considered whether heaven and earth restricted cultivators from reaching the second tier of the Dao Domain, then sent his Primordial Spirit into Venerable Xinyuan’s body.
• Wang Ba sat on the Lotus Throne and discovered that Xinyuan’s Dao Domain covered the Three Continents and allowed him to perceive World Eaters beyond the boundary.
• Wang Ba released the five Divine Beasts outside the boundary, then extended his consciousness toward the Boundary Membrane and glimpsed the Dao underlying the Little Cang Realm.

Wang Ba studied the Little Cang Realm’s Dao by unraveling imperfect nodes formed by the Dao Domains of those who replenished heaven. Meanwhile, Wang Xu emerged from seclusion, ordered a campaign against the Myriad Gods Kingdom, and promised to reveal the true True Martial Sutra after taking Zhongsheng Continent.

• Wang Ba identified patched nodes in the Little Cang Realm’s Dao as likely remnants of the heaven-replenishers’ Dao Domains and began studying a fire-element node.
• Venerable Xinyuan’s body grew more transparent as the Membrane Eye began closing, while the Moruo Colossal Elephant King grew stronger by consuming primal chaos source substance.
• Wang Xu left seclusion and told Dragon Transformation High Person to destroy the Myriad Gods Kingdom within a fortnight before advancing toward Zhongsheng Continent.
• Dragon Transformation High Person reported that fifth-tier True Martial Practitioners had secretly sacrificed fleeing mortals to extend their lives.
• Wang Xu promised to pass down the true True Martial Sutra after Zhongsheng Continent was conquered and ordered Dragon Transformation High Person to keep the information from fourth-tier practitioners.

The True Martial army launched its final assault on the Myriad Gods Kingdom, where Mother God’s plan to lure and destroy their strongest fighters collapsed. Wang Xu killed Mother God, but she revived far away in Daosheng Continent, where a waiting monk greeted her.

• Mother God revealed that the Myriad Gods Kingdom would serve as bait and that she intended to die completely, trusting she could revive after the battle; Yin God’s fate remained uncertain.
• The Nine Kings organized the True Martial army’s attack, while the East King confronted the North King over his priorities and the kings’ secret efforts to extend their lives.
• The True Martial forces overwhelmed the Incense Dao cultivators, but Mother God’s placenta struck at the Dragon Transformation Pool and ambushed the Fifth Tier practitioners.
• The East King saved the North King and King Chen, then was betrayed when they failed to help him; Mother God’s attack killed him.
• Wang Xu confronted Mother God and defeated her after a fierce battle, while she wondered why the Myriad Phenomena Sect cultivator had not arrived.
• Mother God revived in Daosheng Continent among praying mortals, then heard a monk announce that he had been waiting for her.

The Ancestor of True Martial announced the victory over the Myriad Gods Kingdom while worrying that the True Martial cause might recreate the hierarchies it had fought against. Meanwhile, Kongchanzi confronted the reborn Mother God, whose rapid rise in strength ended when the Yin God appeared before her.

• The Green-Robed Elder prepared blood banners with Shen Fu and promised him Blood Dao methods as they planned to leave the sea of clouds.
• The Ancestor of True Martial proclaimed the fall of the Myriad Gods Kingdom and urged the True Martial Army to prepare to liberate the enslaved mortals of Zhongsheng Continent.
• The North King and the other Fifth-Tier True Martial Practitioners secretly felt relief that the Ancestor had not discovered their involvement in the East King's death.
• Kongchanzi dug at the Mother God's statue with a golden shovel and questioned her identity, prompting her to recognize that she was a placenta rather than merely the Mother God.
• The Mother God rapidly advanced to God Lord level and pursued Kongchanzi until he called on his Original Body for help.
• The Yin God compressed the Mother God's Divine Realm and appeared as a vast Buddha, greeting her as a familiar voice addressed her.

Wang Ba stopped the Mother God's attack, then explored the Little Cang Realm's Dao and discovered a damaged rule while continuing his cultivation. At the Myriad Phenomena Sect, Zhao Feng gathered the Spirit Transformation cultivators to discuss the Qin Clan's request for help against the Primordial Demon Sect.

• The Mother God birthed over a hundred evil gods and charged the Buddha phantom, but Wang Ba froze them and the placenta in midair; Kongchanzi had Elephant Forty-Nine swallow the captured gods.
• Wang Ba withdrew his consciousness from Xinyuan and reflected on the Myriad Gods Kingdom, the True Martial Dao, and the approaching great calamity.
• Wang Ba examined the Little Cang Realm's Dao webs, identified the Yin God's divine position, and found a web so damaged that only a corner remained.
• Wang Ba returned to comprehending the Dao while a communication artifact on his physical body vibrated unanswered.
• Zhao Feng told Jiying, Xumi, Pang Xiu, Ling Weizi, and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators that the Primordial Demon Sect was about to attack the Great Jin Capital and asked how they would respond to the Qin Clan's request for aid.

The Myriad Phenomena Sect and the other allies sent reinforcements to Heavenly Capital City after receiving warnings that the Primordial Demon Sect would attack the Qin Clan. The attack proved to be a diversion, and as the defenders routed the invading forces, Zhao Feng and An Changshou learned that their own sects were under surprise attack.

• Zhao Feng and the Myriad Phenomena Sect elders debated the Qin Clan’s request for help, then reconsidered after Wang Yi'an delivered a warning with details of the Primordial Demon Sect’s deployment.
• Zhao Feng led six Spirit Transformation cultivators to Heavenly Capital City, where Qin Shengyong explained that an unknown person had left the warning for one of his clansmen.
• An Changshou arrived with three Longevity Sect cultivators, and Xiong Zhaojing and Xiang Sili later joined them from the Wandering Immortal Temple.
• The Primordial Demon Sect attacked the capital from within and without, but Shen Ying, An Changshou, and the other Spirit Transformation cultivators routed the invaders.
• Zhao Feng noticed that the attack lacked the high-ranking cultivators described in the warning, and the vibrating Spirit Rhinoceros Stones revealed that the Myriad Phenomena Sect and the Longevity Sect were under surprise attack.

The Primordial Demon Sect’s Supreme Elder lured the Three Sects and One Clan away before attacking the Longevity Sect with a blood sea Dao Domain to seize the Undying Divine Tree. As An Changshou and the others faced defeat, a beam of Yuan Magnetism Divine Light suddenly cut through the blood sea, the tree, and the elder’s attack.

• Zhao Feng and An Changshou learned that demonic cultivators had attacked the Myriad Phenomena Sect, the Longevity Sect, and the Qin Clan, and they began returning to their sects.
• Zhao Feng learned that the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s attackers had been slain, while An Changshou discovered that the Longevity Sect’s teleportation array had been sealed.
• The Green-Robed Elder revealed that he had deceived the Three Sects and One Clan to draw their forces away and attacked the Longevity Sect with a blood sea Dao Domain.
• Liang Wuji and the Longevity Sect cultivators fought beneath the Undying Divine Tree, but the Green-Robed Elder overwhelmed them, killed the defenders, and uprooted the tree.
• An Changshou, Ling Weizi, Qin Lingxiao, and the other cultivators arrived and attacked Han Yanzi, but the Green-Robed Elder broke their Dao Domains and moved to strike them.
• Zhao Feng called for help through the Spirit Rhinoceros Stone, and Yuan Magnetism Divine Light arrived, cutting through the blood sea, the Undying Divine Tree, and the Green-Robed Elder’s hand.

Yuan Magnetism Rail Man disrupted Han Yanzi’s attack on the Longevity Sect, but Han Yanzi escaped before the tribulation lightning could strike. After the sect’s survivors were rescued, An Changshou sought refuge for them under the Myriad Phenomena Sect, while Qin Lingxiao returned to the Yuan Magnetic Palace and learned that fleets had entered the Yuan Magnetism Sea.

• Yuan Magnetism Rail Man’s divine light disrupted Han Yanzi’s blood sea Dao domain, but Han Yanzi fled with the Undying Divine Tree’s upper half and the black-robed cultivators before the tribulation lightning struck.
• Yuan Magnetism Rail Man told Zhao Feng that Wang Ba remained in seclusion and that he had fused seventy percent with the boundary membrane, leaving him unable to intervene further.
• An Changshou offered the Undying Divine Tree and asked Zhao Feng to shelter the Longevity Sect’s disciples; Zhao Feng agreed to find them a safe place near the Myriad Phenomena Sect.
• The cultivators rescued survivors from two Longevity Sect secret realms and spent more than a month searching the ruins and salvaging resources.
• Qin Lingxiao warned Qin Shengyong to learn from An Changshou or take the Qin Clan to Zhongsheng Continent, then teleported back to the Yuan Magnetic Palace.
• Mage Xianyu Hu welcomed Qin Lingxiao and reported that the palace’s mages had detected many fleets entering the Yuan Magnetism Sea.

Han Yanzi brought the severed upper half of the Undying Divine Tree to the Great Yan Primordial Demon Sect, where he fed it Blood Qi and refined it, transforming the sect into Changyang Divine Mountain. At the Myriad Phenomena Sect, Zhao Feng and the others decided to confront the True Martial Practitioners invading Zhongsheng Continent.

• Han Yanzi returned to the Great Yan Primordial Demon Sect with Shen Fu and ordered the disciples to clear space for the upper half of the Undying Divine Tree.
• Han Yanzi found the tree weakening from a lack of Spiritual Qi, then fed its roots blood from a hidden secret realm and began refining it with his Primordial Spirit Essence Blood.
• Shen Fu sensed the Yin Talisman inside the secret realm and realized Gong Xiyin was there, but concealed his discovery.
• Han Yanzi used the tree to filter impurities from Blood Qi, but learned it had no Longevity-Extending Divine Ability and barely extended his lifespan.
• The Undying Divine Tree grew into a blood-colored mountain that lifted the Demon Sect's buildings, and Han Yanzi named it Changyang Divine Mountain.
• At the Myriad Phenomena Sect, Zhao Feng and the others discussed the True Martial Practitioners' invasion of Zhongsheng Continent and decided to go there to meet them.

Qian Baimao detected True Martial Practitioners secretly infiltrating across the Luo River and fled with Yuan, drawing the North King and other leaders after them. As the North King attacked, cultivators emerged from concealment and began encircling the invading force, while Qian Baimao struck at the North King with sword light.

• Yuan told Qian Baimao that True Martial Practitioners grew stronger through battle and kept arriving in overwhelming numbers.
• Qian Baimao sensed True Martial Practitioners infiltrating the riverbank, warned the cultivators, and fled with Yuan as the sentry posts fell.
• The North King, the An King, the Xin King, the Ju King, and many other True Martial Practitioners pursued Qian Baimao and Yuan toward the cultivators' camp.
• The North King intercepted Qian Baimao and tried to stop him from delivering a warning.
• Cultivators emerged from concealment and formed an encirclement around the North King and Qian Baimao, who launched sword light at the North King's heart.

Zhao Feng and the Three Sects and One Clan ambushed the True Martial Practitioners on Zhongsheng Continent, trapping them without the Dragon Transformation Pool and launching a fierce battle. As Yuchi Shu and Yuchi Lian killed several leaders, Martial Ancestor withheld the Pool while privately accepting the deaths as necessary, and Dragon Transformation High Person concealed its true thoughts.

• Xumi's hidden Sword Light struck the withered old man, but he stopped it before it reached his bones and retreated as cultivators surrounded the True Martial Practitioners.
• Zhao Feng revealed that Qian Baimao had been used to draw the True Martial Practitioners into an ambush, then coordinated with Qin Lingxiao to contain them and kill their fifth-tier leaders.
• North King rallied the True Martial Practitioners, who charged the formation and forced its defenders to struggle against their numbers and strength.
• Yuchi Shu and Yuchi Lian entered the battle, separated the True Martial Practitioners, and killed An King and Brave King with Yuan Magnetic Power.
• Dragon Transformation High Person urged Martial Ancestor to summon the Dragon Transformation Pool, but Martial Ancestor refused and privately resolved to remove the True Martial Practitioners as obstacles before his life ended.

The Three Sects and One Clan fought the True Martial Army across the Luo River, but the Martial Ancestor arrived with strength comparable to a sixth-tier being and turned the battle against them. As Zhao Feng and his young disciple charged him, the old man recognized the disciple and stopped gathering Blood Qi.

• Qin Lingxiao fought the True Martial Army's Blood Tiger while Yuchi Shu and Yuchi Lian slaughtered True Martial Practitioners inside the formation.
• The North King and Ju King led their surviving warriors in a desperate charge, but Ju King was killed and the North King died after fighting Yuchi Shu and Yuchi Lian.
• The Martial Ancestor shattered the formation with a column of Blood Qi, killed Yuchi Shu, and then annihilated Yuchi Lian as she charged him in grief.
• The Martial Ancestor honored the North King's corpse, declared that the battle for Zhongsheng Continent would end, and hurled a blood-red spear at the cultivators.
• Xumi met the spear with the Yuyang Drum, and Zhao Feng charged the Martial Ancestor to let the others escape.
• A young disciple rushed after Zhao Feng, and the Martial Ancestor froze when he saw the young man's face.

Wang Xu confronted Zhao Feng, Qin Lingxiao, and Wang Yi'an as they tried to escape the True Martial Army, but he let the others flee while recognizing Wang Yi'an as his junior fellow disciple. After defeating Ye Cangsheng and discovering Guan Ao among the survivors, Wang Xu spared Guan Ao's life and hurled him north, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Wang Yi'an joined Zhao Feng in fleeing the True Martial Army, and Qin Lingxiao rescued them when the Dragon Transformation Pool slowed their escape.
• Zhao Feng used Azure Nether to freeze the arrows and most of the pursuing True Martial Practitioners while Qin Lingxiao prepared a Yuan Magnetism Inverted Teleportation Technique.
• Wang Xu stopped the fifth-tier True Martial Practitioner and learned Wang Yi'an's name, while Qin Lingxiao teleported herself, Zhao Feng, and the White Dragon away.
• Wang Xu identified Dragon Transformation High Person as Ye Cangsheng, accused him of causing the deaths of over a thousand True Martial comrades, and killed him after a battle that shattered the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• Wang Xu found Guan Ao among the survivors and, despite recalling his promise to his teacher, threw him north rather than killing him.

After more than a century in seclusion, Wang Ba emerged from Xinyuan’s fading body, subdued the Moruo Colossal Elephant King, and prepared to return to the Myriad Phenomena Sect amid the approaching great calamity. He reunited with Zhao Feng, learned of Yi'an’s disappearance, and left to see Bu Chan as a strange corpse drifted toward the South Sea shore.

• Wang Ba emerged from Xinyuan’s physical body and subdued the Moruo Colossal Elephant King, reclaiming the Moruo Colossal Elephants as his Dao soldiers.
• Wang Ba told Kongchanzi he would return to the sect to investigate its situation, advance the Daoist grounds, and prepare for the great calamity.
• Wang Ba and Kongchanzi discussed Yi'an’s capture by Wang Xu, and Wang Ba judged that Yi'an was likely safe and might benefit from the ordeal.
• Wang Ba met Zhao Feng at Pure Yang Palace, reassured him that Yi'an was alive, and heard that Zhao Feng had been burdened by the crisis and sect affairs.
• Wang Ba left to see Bu Chan, while a strange, enormous-headed corpse drifted toward shore on the Wind-Approaching Continent.

After reuniting with Bu Chan and Wang Qingyang, Wang Ba inspected the Spirit Beasts in his secret realm and discovered two unusual Stone Dragon Lizard breeds. He left the Thousand-Eyed Nether Lizard marked for future use, named the other the Curse-Calamity Fierce Lizard, and departed with Dao Intent Spirit Beasts to improve his Dao Domain.

• Wang Ba found Bu Chan exhausted with worry about Wang Yi'an, reassured her that Yi'an was safe, and spent several days with her and Wang Qingyang.
• Wang Ba entered the Bead Secret Realm, collected its accumulated incense power, and found Jia Ten Five had advanced to the middle fifth tier.
• Wang Ba inspected the Spirit Beast Grounds, arranged for fifth-tier Moruo Colossal Elephants to breed, and considered using Spirit Beasts as Dao Soldiers.
• Wang Ba discovered that the fifth-tier Thousand-Eyed Nether Lizard could create an illusionary realm and pass through solid matter, then marked it and left it in the burrow.
• Wang Ba identified a savage albino Stone Dragon Lizard whose natural curse runes corroded his Law Power, named it the Curse-Calamity Fierce Lizard, and saw it kill and devour another lizard.
• Wang Ba adjusted the secret realm's Spirit Beast Area, gathered Dao Intent Spirit Beasts, and left to improve his Dao Domain.

Wang Ba examined the damaged Azure Nether Mirror, learned that Wang Xu had destroyed the Dragon Transformation Pool, and discussed the looming threats from Wang Xu and Han Yanzi with Zhao Feng. He returned to Myriad Laws Peak and began using the second edition of the Zhou Tian Stars Diagram to perfect his Xuanhuang Dao Domain.

• Wang Ba visited Xin Zhao and promised to help him prepare for his Spirit Transformation Tribulation.
• Zhao Feng showed Wang Ba the damaged Azure Nether Mirror, whose True Spirit no longer responded, and reported signs that Wang Xu had destroyed the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• Wang Ba told Zhao Feng that Wang Xu had once been his disciple and had developed the True Martial Sutra from the Body-Strengthening Scripture; he vowed to slay Wang Xu if he attacked the Sect.
• Wang Ba and Zhao Feng discussed Han Yanzi’s growing threat, and Zhao Feng agreed to manage the Sect while Wang Ba prepared to fuse with an Incarnation.
• Wang Ba gave Zhao Feng plans for Fourth-Tier Pheasant Dao Soldiers, then returned to Myriad Laws Peak and began perfecting his Xuanhuang Dao Domain with the Zhou Tian Stars Diagram.

Wang Ba perfected his first-tier Dao Domain and used a fifth-tier sea pearl to find a method for fusing with Ice Daoist, though the pearl could not solve Yuan Magnetism Rail Man’s predicament. He then advanced the Taiyi Daoist Grounds with the Undying Divine Tree, leaving them able to accommodate Void Refinement cultivators.

• Wang Ba completed his first-tier Ten Thousand Laws Xuanhuang Dao Domain, which could extend more than ten li, but found he still lacked what he needed to break through to Void Refinement.
• Wang Ba used a fifth-tier sea pearl to discover that aligning himself with the artistic conception of the Supreme Refining Emotions Art could help him fuse with Ice Daoist.
• Wang Ba tried to ask the sea pearl how to free Yuan Magnetism Rail Man from the Boundary Membrane, but it cracked when the request exceeded its capabilities.
• Xin Zhao delivered Dao Intent harvested by the Spirit Cuisine Department, and Wang Ba decided to use it to advance the Taiyi Daoist Grounds.
• Liang Wuji proposed using the Longevity Sect’s Undying Divine Tree as an anchor, and Wang Ba accepted it as a loan before advancing the Daoist Grounds.
• Wang Ba enlarged the Taiyi Daoist Grounds dozens of times, allowing them to accommodate Void Refinement cultivators.

Wang Ba returned to the Longevity Sect, warned its cultivators that a great calamity was near, then went to the North Sea to begin merging his Ice Daoist incarnation into himself. On Zhongsheng Continent, the True Martial Great Devil reflected on the oppression created by power and resolved to keep working toward a better future for mortals.

• Wang Ba reassured Liang Wuji, Zhao Feng, and the Longevity Sect elders, explained how to open the Daoist Grounds, and warned them to conserve their strength for the approaching calamity.
• Wang Ba met Xuanyuanzi at the North Pole Ice Abyss, explained how merging with the boundary membrane had advanced his understanding of the Little Cang Realm's rules, and learned that Xuanyuanzi could not grasp his insights.
• Wang Ba met his Ice Daoist incarnation and began the Revert to Root, Return to Origin process, unfolding their perfected Dao Domains until the Ice Dao Domain began to merge into his Xuanhuang Dao Domain.
• The True Martial Great Devil discussed the suffering of mortals and the corruption of power with his handsome junior, explaining how True Martial Practitioners had begun to oppress mortals as cultivators did.
• The True Martial Great Devil admitted that he had no answer for ending oppression and asked his junior to fulfill his wish, but then changed his mind and resolved to do his utmost himself.

Guan Ao returned to the Myriad Phenomena Sect after spending four or five hundred years trapped in the Dragon Transformation Pool, unaware of the changes and impending Great Calamity. Though the sect welcomed him cautiously, the chapter revealed that something else now controlled his body and was searching for a way to escape the world.

• The Martial Ancestor admitted to his Junior Brother that he had considered using him to trick the Myriad Phenomena Sect into opening its formation, then left without attempting it.
• Guan Ao returned to the sealed sect and reported that the Dragon Transformation High Person was Ye Cangsheng, while the sect’s elders learned from Wang Yi'an’s Voice Transmission Talisman that the Martial Ancestor had destroyed the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• Zhao Feng confirmed that the Dragon Transformation High Person had fallen and learned that Guan Ao had been trapped for four or five hundred years; Guan Ao chose to remain with Heavenly Origin Hall despite the approaching Great Calamity.
• Zhao Feng and the elders arranged to guard the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Raft, while Guan Ao returned to his residence to recover.
• Guan Ao’s expression changed, and the presence controlling him complained about his body, asked after Wang Xu’s cultivation method, and discovered that the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Raft was in the sect.

Wang Ba began merging with Ice Daoist and ordered his sect to avoid outside conflicts, while Wang Xu and his allies established a True Martial nation across the four continents. After more than twenty years of peace and prosperity, Wang Xu flew to the blood-colored sacred mountain to challenge its master.

• Wang Ba achieved an initial alignment with Ice Daoist, then warned Xuanyuanzi that complete fusion depended on overcoming a final hurdle.
• Ling Weizi assigned Guan Ao to train Nascent Soul disciples to command Pheasant Dao Soldiers in the abandoned West Sea Kingdom.
• Wang Ba returned to the Pure Yang Palace and told Zhao Feng to keep the sect out of external conflicts, even if True Martial attacked Great Jin.
• Wang Xu persuaded his junior brother to help establish a four-continent Martial Nation governed by elected Martial Venerables and Martial Sects.
• Over twenty years, True Martial leaders established the new government, and the mortals and practitioners of the four continents entered a prosperous era.
• Wang Xu went to the blood-colored sacred mountain and announced that he had come to challenge its master.

Wang Xu challenged Han Yanzi at Changyang Divine Mountain, and their battle awakened the Sixth-Tier power of Wang Xu’s Sea Pearl before Han Yanzi killed him and took it. Wang Xu’s headless body returned to the Myriad Phenomena Sect, where he knelt before Wang Ba and left behind the True Martial Sutra’s Sixth-Tier breakthrough method, begging his teacher’s forgiveness.

• Wang Ba sensed Wang Xu and watched the pure white phantom vanish as he left the Bead Secret Realm.
• Wang Xu challenged Han Yanzi, who fought back after initially trying to avoid killing the Child of Destiny.
• Wang Xu endured Han Yanzi’s attacks and pushed their clashing blood Qi systems until his Sea Pearl revealed the path to the Sixth Tier.
• Han Yanzi beheaded Wang Xu, then discovered he was still alive and tore the Sea Pearl from his heart.
• Wang Xu’s body returned to the Myriad Phenomena Sect and knelt before Wang Ba, while a blood bead revealed the True Martial Sutra’s Sixth-Tier breakthrough method and Wang Xu asked his teacher’s forgiveness.