Recaps

Ye Fan used his control over the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm to subdue Qiongqi and Suanni and slaughtered the people who had waited to prey on the group. Before they left, the group enslaved the two beasts with spiritual talismans, while Ye Fan prepared to kill more people.

• Ye Fan used the secret realm's power to crush the fleeing onlookers into bloody mist.
• Luo Feng, Su Jian, Mu Yan, and the others praised Ye Fan's strength, and Ye Fan explained that he could not pull in anyone two major realms stronger than himself.
• The group debated whether to kill Qiongqi and Suanni, but Zixing and Ziyue wanted to keep the beasts as pets.
• Yingluo implanted spiritual talismans in Qiongqi and Suanni so they could not rebel without dying.
• As the group prepared to leave, Ye Fan said he had not killed enough people that day.

Ye Fan eliminated the surviving elders of the Lu, Ye, Yuan, and Li Households inside the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm, then secretly caused the realm to eject everyone. Chen Xuanbei led his companions toward his former Immortal Emperor tomb, while Ye Chen prepared Kunlun for the Desolate Immortal Genius Battle and asked about developments in the Immortal Spirit Great World.

• Ye Fan overheard the four Lineages plotting to frame him and his companions, then crushed their members one by one with the secret realm’s power.
• The Heavenly Origin Secret Realm expelled its remaining inhabitants, and Ye Fan’s group emerged without revealing his role in the expulsion.
• Chen Xuanbei decided to take his companions to a place connected to an Immortal Emperor, which was the tomb where he had buried his past-life legacies.
• Ling Kong told Ye Chen that the five continents had selected twenty-five thousand competitors for the Desolate Immortal Genius Battle, whose final showdown would take place at Kunlun in ten days.
• Ling Kong described leading contenders including Man Gu and Chi Xuntian, and Ye Chen asked how affairs were progressing in the Immortal Spirit Great World.

Young geniuses from across Desolate Immortal arrived at the Kunlun Holy Land for the Genius Battle, where they were stunned by its spiritual energy and formidable gatekeeping beasts. At the finals’ opening, deputy sect master Ling Kong revealed the pressure of an Immortal Emperor, shocking the arrogant imperial son Chi Xuntian.

• The Kunlun Holy Land transported the selected contestants to its grounds, where they marveled at its dense Spiritual Qi and vast scale.
• Several young experts approached the four beasts guarding the gate, and the beasts revealed their enormous, fearsome true forms, driving the visitors away in alarm.
• Holy sons, holy maidens, and imperial sons gathered and asked Su Lingyun about Kunlun’s absent personal disciples; she said they had left to temper themselves and would return for the Genius Battle.
• Wang Chong recognized Su Lingyun’s dramatic growth, and she told the gathered geniuses that she was inferior to every one of Kunlun’s personal disciples.
• At the final showdown’s opening, Ling Kong addressed the contestants while Chi Xuntian tried and failed to discern his power.
• Ling Kong released some of his presence, and Chi Xuntian realized that the deputy sect master was a true Immortal Emperor.

Ling Kong revealed that he was an Immortal Emperor and introduced Immortal Emperor Leigang and the Ancient Profound Immortal Emperor as advisers and security guards for the Desolate Immortal Genius Battle. The crowd wondered what kind of person could command three Immortal Emperors, and the Kunlun Holy Land’s sect master appeared amid seven-colored immortal light.

• Ling Kong revealed his Immortal Emperor pressure, shocking the visiting geniuses and prompting Lei Wuji and Gu Yun to compare his power with their fathers’.
• Ling Kong introduced Immortal Emperor Leigang as an adviser and security guard, and Lei Wuji recognized his father.
• Gu Yun teased Lei Wuji about being a security guard’s son, but his laughter stopped when Ling Kong introduced the Ancient Profound Immortal Emperor, Gu Yun’s father.
• The geniuses cheered as the two Immortal Emperors stood beside Ling Kong, while Lei Wuji and Gu Yun speculated that the Kunlun Holy Land might have made them submit through overwhelming force.
• Ling Kong invited the Kunlun Holy Land’s sect master to address the gathering, and a figure surrounded by seven-colored immortal light and Great Dao runes appeared.

Ye Chen appeared before the Desolate Immortal Genius Battle, and his overwhelming presence awed Immortal Emperors and young geniuses alike. After the female cultivators swooned over him and the male cultivators lamented their own lack of appeal, Ye Chen urged the competitors to show their strength.

• Ye Chen's presence overwhelmed Chi Xuntian, Immortal Emperor Leigang, the Ancient Profound Immortal Emperor, and the gathered geniuses.
• Ye Chen shed his immortal light and revealed his appearance, prompting female cultivators to praise him and resolve to become Immortal Emperors to earn his favor.
• Male cultivators complained that women who had rejected them were now infatuated with Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen told the young cultivators that the Desolate Immortal Genius Battle was their stage and urged them to display their strength.

As the Genius Battle began, Ye Chen ordered the return of Mu Yan and the others and sent Immortal Emperor elders to eliminate the traitors serving the Otherworldly Demons. One elder reached the Jiang Household and discovered a long-hidden spy there, just as the clan sensed an attack and gathered behind its defenses.

• The Genius Battle began with the drawing of lots, and a great Lineage genius panicked after drawing Chi Xuntian as his opponent.
• Ye Chen ordered the elders protecting Mu Yan and the others to bring them back, then commanded Immortal Emperor elders to hunt down and kill the traitors among the Otherworldly Demons’ agents.
• An Immortal Emperor elder arrived at the Jiang Household, an Immortal Aristocratic Clan on the Northern Kuru Continent.
• A Peak Immortal King Jiang Household higher-up sent information about Kunlun through an Otherworldly Demon formation, revealing that he had served as a hidden spy for ten million years.
• The Jiang Household shook under an attack, and more than a dozen Immortal King ancestors gathered behind its sect-protecting formation to face the attacker.

The Kunlun elder confronted the Jiang Household and demanded that its third elder, secretly assimilated by the Otherworldly Demons, destroy himself. The household mocked and rejected him, so he advanced toward their clan-protecting formation, ready to act on the sect master's orders.

• The Kunlun elder identified the Jiang Household's third elder as his target and ordered him to destroy himself or be destroyed.
• The Jiang Household members laughed at the demand, while the third elder grew uneasy and denied knowing the Kunlun elder.
• The third elder urged the household to kill the intruder, and the grand elder prepared to fight with the Dragon-Patterned Divine Halberd.
• The Kunlun elder warned the household that it would bear responsibility for resisting him and strode toward its clan-protecting formation.

A Kunlun Immortal Emperor elder broke through the Jiang Household’s formation, killed the First Elder, and seized the Dragon-Patterned Divine Halberd. He also annihilated the Third Elder, revealing him as an Otherworldly Demons King, then left the shaken household to reckon with its losses and responsibility.

• The Kunlun Immortal Emperor elder tore apart the Jiang Household’s Emperor Grade protective formation and confronted the First Elder.
• The First Elder summoned the Dragon-Patterned Divine Halberd, but the elder suppressed and took the weapon before killing him with it.
• The Third Elder revealed his Otherworldly Demons form and tried to flee, but the elder destroyed him with a single sentence.
• The elder blamed the Jiang Household for harboring an Otherworldly Demons and departed, while its members knelt in fear for over three hours.
• The Second Elder warned the household not to seek revenge and acknowledged that the elder had shown mercy by sparing them.

The Kunlun Immortal Emperor went to Purple Empyrean Holy Land on Ye Chen’s orders and exposed three Immortal King elders as Otherworldly Demons Kings. He killed them despite the Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor’s presence, leaving the holy land’s secret revealed.

• The Second Elder warned the Jiang Household to conceal that their Third Elder had been an Otherworldly Demons King, while the Third Elder led three elders to Kunlun Holy Land to explain.
• The Kunlun Immortal Emperor arrived at Purple Empyrean Holy Land and summoned Immortal King Feiyu, Immortal King Yangrong, and Immortal King Xingzhou.
• The Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor emerged from the holy land’s depths, and the Kunlun Immortal Emperor revealed his identity and grievous injuries.
• The Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor said he would not obstruct the Kunlun Immortal Emperor, who then moved to seize the three Immortal King elders.
• Feiyu, Yangrong, and Xingzhou revealed their Otherworldly Demon Qi and fled in different directions, but the Kunlun Immortal Emperor destroyed their bodies and souls.

Kunlun’s Immortal Emperor exposed three Otherworldly Demons Kings hiding in the Purple Empyrean Holy Land and brought the injured Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor to meet Ye Chen. Meanwhile, Kunlun’s Immortal Emperors continued purging hidden traitors across the Desolate Immortal Great World, and Ye Chen examined the Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor’s badly damaged body and soul.

• Kunlun’s Immortal Emperor defeated the three Otherworldly Demons Kings and told the Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor to come to Kunlun at the Sect Master’s command.
• The Grand Elder confirmed to the Purple Empyrean Holy Land’s disciples that their ancestor had survived, though his cultivation and lifespan had been diminished by severe injuries.
• Kunlun’s Immortal Emperors uprooted Otherworldly Demons’ hidden pawns throughout the Desolate Immortal Great World.
• Kunlun’s Immortal Emperor brought the Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor to Ye Chen, who revealed his face and observed that the elder’s body and soul were riddled with damage.

Ye Chen found the Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor near death from Otherworldly Demon Qi and cleared the corruption from his body and soul. He ordered the recovered Emperor to serve Kunlun and risk his life for it.

• The Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor praised Kunlun’s strength and said its presence could help Desolate Immortal withstand a demonic invasion.
• Ye Chen refused to let the dying Emperor give up, saying he would not allow him to die while he was still useful.
• Ye Chen immobilized the Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor and purged the Otherworldly Demon Qi from his body and soul.
• Ye Chen ordered the Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor to belong to Kunlun and put his life on the line for it.

Ye Chen cured the Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor of the Otherworldly Demon Qi and brought him into Kunlun Holy Land, where he began to recover and discovered the sect’s astonishing strength. The Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor mistook Kunlun’s vast number of Immortal Emperors for a total of five, then felt slighted when Alchemy Pavilion head Ling Dan greeted him coolly.

• Ye Chen removed the Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor’s Otherworldly Demon Qi, restoring his strength and giving him hope of returning to his peak.
• The Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor thanked Ye Chen and agreed to serve Kunlun Holy Land, while a Kunlun Immortal Emperor elder came to guide him.
• The Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor was shocked to learn the elder was an Immortal Emperor, but mistakenly concluded Kunlun would have five once he recovered.
• The elder took the Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor to the Alchemy Pavilion, where he admired its alchemists and facilities.
• Ling Dan met the Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor with little interest, leaving him displeased despite his belief that he would become Kunlun’s fifth Immortal Emperor.

The Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor toured Kunlun Holy Land and was astonished by its many Immortal Emperors and cultivation grounds, including the Chaos Realm. There he reunited with four veteran Immortal Emperors, bringing the old acquaintances together in Kunlun.

• The Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor was surprised to discover that Elder Ling Dan was an Immortal Emperor and was researching a pill that could raise a mortal straight to the True Immortal Realm Stage.
• An elder led the Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor on a tour of Kunlun’s treasured cultivation grounds, leaving him overwhelmed by their quality.
• The elder brought him to the Chaos Realm, where complete Great Dao laws could be studied beneath an enormous black hole.
• The Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor encountered the Nine Tribulations War Emperor, the Qingtian Immortal Emperor, Immortal Emperor Jiguang, and Immortal Emperor Lingbao as they returned from cultivation.
• Immortal Emperor Jiguang and Immortal Emperor Lingbao greeted Zixiao, and the veteran Immortal Emperors gathered together in Kunlun.

The Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor learned that Kunlun had more than fifty Immortal Emperors and was dragged into the Chaos Realm by Immortal Emperor Lingbao. Meanwhile, thirty Otherworldly Demon Emperors gathered at Changliu Divine Mountain with two captured Immortal Emperor souls, intending to use them to repair the Divine Realm passage and connect the upper and lower realms.

• The Nine Tribulations War Emperor and the others told the Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor that they had joined Kunlun and that Kunlun had at least fifty Immortal Emperors.
• Immortal Emperor Lingbao dragged the stunned Purple Empyrean Immortal Emperor into the Chaos Realm.
• At Changliu Divine Mountain, five Otherworldly Demon Emperors arrived with two captured Immortal Emperor souls sealed in a bottle.
• The two captives discovered that thirty Otherworldly Demon Emperors had gathered and feared for their lives.
• The Otherworldly Demon Emperors ordered the two souls thrown into the Divine Realm passage to repair its final damage and connect the upper and lower realms.

The Otherworldly Demon Emperors reached their ancestral land and used the souls of the final two Immortal Emperors to complete the array connecting the lower and upper realms. As the portal opened, a dark silhouette appeared within it, leaving them to face the arrival of the upper-realm envoy.

• The Otherworldly Demon Emperors arrived at their ancient ancestral land and discussed repairing its passage to the Heavenly Divine Realm.
• A divine decree descended from the Heavenly Divine Realm, and the Otherworldly Demon Emperors mocked its orders while anticipating the envoy.
• The Otherworldly Demon Emperors seized the two Immortal Emperor souls when they tried to escape and fed them into the array.
• The completed array opened a vast spatial hole toward the Heavenly Divine Realm.
• A dark silhouette appeared at the center of the pillar of light.

An upper realm envoy emerged from the formation and faced the Otherworldly Demon Emperors, who attacked him after he treated them like servants. He proved vastly stronger than they expected, and the chapter ended with him draining one Emperor’s blood while suppressing his Otherworldly Demon Qi.

• The upper realm envoy emerged from the dormant formation and asked the Otherworldly Demon Emperors whether they had completed his instructions.
• Four Otherworldly Demon Emperors attacked the envoy, but his black-light barrier withstood their combined strikes.
• The envoy vanished so quickly that the Otherworldly Demon Emperors could not track him.
• The envoy appeared behind one Emperor, used Blood Demon Hand to tear out his heart, and began drawing blood from him.
• The Emperor discovered that the envoy’s power suppressed Otherworldly Demon Qi.

The upper realm envoy slaughtered four Otherworldly Demon Emperors, forcing the survivors to submit and hand over the High Antiquity supreme treasure components they had collected. He assembled the pieces into a complete suit of blood-red armor, revealing that he could wield their power.

• The upper realm envoy suppressed and drained four Otherworldly Demon Emperors, killing them one by one.
• The remaining Otherworldly Demon Emperors recognized his power as superior to theirs and submitted to him.
• The Otherworldly Demon Emperors explained that others of their kind guarded other great worlds and surrendered their recovered High Antiquity supreme treasure components.
• The upper realm envoy gathered the components and assembled them into a complete blood-red suit of armor that released a tremendous power shock wave.

The upper realm's envoy donned the Frenzied Blood Armor, provoking the Great Dao of the myriad worlds to unleash its defenses against him. After fighting off countless Immortal Emperor imprints, he withdrew the armor and demanded that the Otherworldly Demon Emperors find the remaining supreme treasures, especially the most important one.

• The Otherworldly Demon Emperors feared the Frenzied Blood Armor's power and considered profiting if it killed the upper realm's envoy.
• The upper realm's envoy put on the Frenzied Blood Armor, which merged seamlessly with his body and greatly increased his power.
• The Great Dao of the myriad worlds attacked him with divine chains, Great Dao lotuses, and the imprints of deceased Immortal Emperors.
• The upper realm's envoy destroyed many Immortal Emperor imprints, then evaded the Great Dao's renewed assault and withdrew the armor.
• The upper realm's envoy demanded that the Otherworldly Demon Emperors bring him the remaining supreme treasures, especially the most important one.

The upper realm envoy learned that the Otherworldly Demons' forces sent to the Desolate Immortal Great World had been wiped out, but he dismissed the danger and ordered a full invasion. Meanwhile, spectators continued discussing the Genius Battle and arguing over Chi Xuntian's defeat of the Scarlet Heart Holy Son.

• The Otherworldly Demon Emperors told the upper realm envoy that twenty or thirty of their kind and their armies had mysteriously died in the Desolate Immortal Great World.
• The envoy rejected the idea that anyone had used the buried supreme treasure and declared that he would uncover the truth himself.
• The Otherworldly Demons mobilized their armies in the Ten Thousand Li Great World and began traveling toward the Desolate Immortal Great World by relay teleportation.
• Spectators outside the Kunlun Holy Land discussed Chi Xuntian defeating the Scarlet Heart Holy Son and criticized Chi Xuntian as fake.
• Chi Xuntian's supporters angrily defended him, and the critics left to avoid being attacked.
• A news hawker announced that Lei Wuji would next face the Holy Son of the Purple Tenuity Holy Land.

Lei Wuji defeated the Purple Tenuity Holy Son, while spectators argued over Kunlun's direct disciples receiving automatic advancement. The next match paired Chi Xuntian with Kunlun's Mu Yan.

• The Purple Tenuity Holy Son used Purple River Suspended in the Sky against Lei Wuji, but Lei Wuji gradually overpowered him and knocked him out of the arena.
• Lei Wuji declared that only other Immortal Emperor's sons could challenge him, prompting spectators to discuss Kunlun's direct disciples and their special advancement into the top hundred.
• Young geniuses protested Kunlun's preferential treatment, but fell silent when someone suggested they complain directly to Kunlun's higher-ups.
• An elder announced that Chi Xuntian would face Kunlun's direct disciple Mu Yan in the next match.

Kunlun moved the Genius Battle venue outside the Holy Land so the public could watch the remaining matches, beginning with Chi Xuntian against Mu Yan. As Chi Xuntian took the arena and drew strength from his cheering supporters, he prepared to cripple Mu Yan.

• Kunlun elders announced that the remaining Genius Battle matches would be held publicly outside the Holy Land.
• Immortal Emperor Leigang and the Ancient Profound Immortal Emperor moved the enormous battle venue outside Kunlun, where cultivators gathered to watch.
• Chi Xuntian arrived at the arena amid loud cheers from his devoted supporters.
• Chi Xuntian secretly regarded his supporters as tools whose admiration strengthened him and vowed to cripple Mu Yan.

Mu Yan arrived at the Genius Battle just as spectators began to suspect he had avoided facing Chi Xuntian. Chi Xuntian unleashed a powerful attack, while Mu Yan watched calmly, leaving their fight poised to begin.

• Spectators wondered whether Mu Yan was too afraid of Chi Xuntian to appear, while Kunlun's disciples remained confident he would come.
• Mu Yan descended into the arena with his enormous black ruler and faced Chi Xuntian.
• Chi Xuntian recognized Mu Yan as a worthy opponent and released a presence that shook the arena.
• The Purple Tenuity Holy Son estimated Mu Yan had a forty percent chance of winning, and the Scarlet Heart Holy Son agreed.
• Chi Xuntian sent a blazing sun crashing toward Mu Yan, who watched without dodging and praised the move.

Mu Yan effortlessly caught Chi Xuntian’s Scarlet Heart Burns the Heavens, then overwhelmed Chi Xuntian’s flame divine general by revealing his full cultivation. The spectators discovered that Mu Yan had already reached the Mahayana Realm.

• Chi Xuntian unleashed Scarlet Heart Burns the Heavens, while the Scarlet Heart Holy Son and Purple Tenuity Holy Son judged that neither could withstand the attack without serious injury.
• Mu Yan caught the blazing scarlet sun with one hand, compressed it into a small ball, and flicked it into the sky, where it exploded.
• Mu Yan asked Chi Xuntian if that was all he had, prompting Chi Xuntian to summon a towering flame divine general and attack with its giant sword.
• Mu Yan unleashed his cultivation presence, which shattered the flame divine general and blasted Chi Xuntian away without Mu Yan using a technique.
• The prominent figures in the stands stood up and announced that Mu Yan had reached the Mahayana Realm.

Mu Yan revealed that he had reached the Mahayana realm second level, stunning the arena and decisively winning against Chi Xuntian. The crowd celebrated as the next match, between Gu Yun and Gu Yingluo, was announced.

• The spectators discovered that Mu Yan had reached the Mahayana realm second level and marveled at his cultivation.
• Shen Cangsheng, the Purple Tenuity Holy Son, the Sky-Splitting Holy Son, and Lei Wuji despaired at the gap between themselves and Mu Yan.
• Chi Xuntian's supporters began to recognize his hypocrisy and suspected that he had bewitched them.
• The overseeing elder declared Mu Yan the winner, and the Kunlun disciples cheered.
• The elder announced the next match between Gu Yun and Gu Yingluo.

Gu Yingluo effortlessly defeated Gu Yun, demonstrating that Kunlun's direct disciples were far stronger than the Immortal Emperors' sons. Su Jian then faced Prince Nine Tribulations, and the chapter ended as they began fighting, with spectators divided over whether Su Jian could win despite his lower cultivation realm.

• Gu Yingluo neutralized Gu Yun's attacks with two flicks of her finger and sent him flying, prompting him to concede defeat.
• Spectators and powerful figures marveled that Gu Yingluo, like Mu Yan, had reached the Mahayana Realm's second level.
• Su Jian entered the arena to face Prince Nine Tribulations, son of Nine Tribulations Immortal Emperor.
• Su Jian revealed he was at the Body Integration Realm fourth level, while Prince Nine Tribulations disclosed he was at the seventh level and vowed to fight seriously.
• Spectators debated Su Jian's chances as he and Prince Nine Tribulations moved to begin their match.