Recaps

Ye Chen effortlessly withstood Heavenly Emperor Haoyu’s attacks, leaving the watching Heavenly Emperors stunned by his overwhelming strength. Heavenly Emperor Nanyun joined forces with Heavenly Emperor Gaoyang and Heavenly Emperor Haoyu to try to defeat him.

• Heavenly Emperor Haoyu used his black iron umbrella and a secret art against Ye Chen, but Ye Chen caught the umbrella and took the attack without being hurt.
• Ye Chen said Heavenly Emperors were still weak, while Heavenly Emperor Haoyu retreated and watched him warily.
• Heavenly Emperor Gaoyang, Heavenly Emperor Pang Han, and Heavenly Emperor Nanyun reacted with disbelief to Ye Chen’s invulnerability.
• Heavenly Emperor Nanyun decided he needed to defeat Ye Chen to obtain his secret and flew to Heavenly Emperor Gaoyang to propose joining forces.
• Heavenly Emperor Gaoyang agreed that he, Heavenly Emperor Haoyu, and Heavenly Emperor Nanyun would work together against Ye Chen.

Ye Chen fought Heavenly Emperors Nanyun, Pang Han, and Gaoyang after they joined forces, but easily overwhelmed them. Heavenly Emperor Haoyu recognized him as the Lord of Kunlun, startling the other Heavenly Emperors.

• Heavenly Emperor Pang Han joined Heavenly Emperor Nanyun, Heavenly Emperor Gaoyang, and Heavenly Emperor Haoyu against Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen caught Nanyun’s iron staff, used it to deflect Pang Han’s saber, and sent Nanyun flying when he flung the staff aside.
• Ye Chen casually repelled Gaoyang’s secret technique and made him cough blood, leaving the Heavenly Emperors horrified by his strength.
• Heavenly Emperor Haoyu asked Ye Chen’s identity, and Murong Qing’s words led him to recognize Ye Chen as the Lord of Kunlun.
• Murong Qing confirmed Haoyu’s guess, and Nanyun, Pang Han, and Gaoyang were shocked by the Lord of Kunlun’s power.

Ye Chen refused to let the four Heavenly Emperors withdraw, forcing them to unleash their full strength against him. As their combined attacks descended, Ye Chen remained calm and raised his hand to meet them.

• Heavenly Emperors Pang Han and Gaoyang realized Ye Chen had killed Yuankai, while the four Heavenly Emperors weighed whether to continue fighting.
• Ye Chen declared that he would not let the four leave, and Heavenly Emperor Haoyu vowed they could still win if they fought at full strength.
• The four Heavenly Emperors unleashed their power, forcing the watching Immortal Emperors and Murong Qing to retreat from the battlefield.
• Haoyu, Gaoyang, Pang Han, and Nanyun launched their attacks together at Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen smiled as their attacks shattered the space around him, then leisurely raised his hand.

Ye Chen used his control over space and time to defeat and kill four Heavenly Emperors with ease. He collected their origins and the Wuhen Treasury, which Murong Qing recognized as connected to the Wuhen Palace.

• Ye Chen slowed Heavenly Emperor Haoyu with his space-time domain and destroyed his body and soul with a palm strike.
• Ye Chen pierced Heavenly Emperor Gaoyang with Gaoyang's own Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, killing him.
• Ye Chen struck Heavenly Emperor Pang Han and Heavenly Emperor Nan Yun, destroying both their bodies and souls.
• Murong Qing watched Ye Chen's victory in awe as he collected the four Heavenly Emperor origins.
• Ye Chen produced the Wuhen Treasury, and Murong Qing said it must be connected to the Wuhen Palace they had seen.

Ye Chen opened the Wuhen Treasury and discovered that its creator had understood Great Dao principles beyond the Heavenly Emperor Realm. The treasury held no treasures, but its discarded records revealed the Wuhen Saint Sect’s history and the fate of its Immortal Emperors and Heavenly Emperors.

• Murong Qing asked Ye Chen why she could not understand all the runes on the Wuhen Treasury, and Ye Chen recognized that they represented principles beyond the Heavenly Emperor Realm.
• Ye Chen activated every rune and expanded the palm-sized treasury into a great hall.
• Murong Qing found the treasury empty of valuables, while Ye Chen examined the scattered scrolls and Jade Slips and found only records.
• Ye Chen read that the Wuhen Saint Sect had once possessed fifty Immortal Emperors and ten Heavenly Emperors, while the Heavenly Gate remained open.
• Ye Chen discovered that as the chaos epoch neared its end, an upper-realm Saint Emperor ordered all Immortal Emperors and Heavenly Emperors to ascend before the realms were sealed off.

Ye Chen and Murong Qing learned that the Heavenly Gate closed as the Chaos Era neared its end, then left the Wuhen Treasury and continued searching the Nine Nether Demon Abyss for its source. They entered a strange black mist whose chaotic spacetime might lead to the Demon Abyss Eye, with Ye Chen holding Murong Qing’s hand to keep them together.

• Ye Chen and Murong Qing read that the Heavenly Gate had closed when the Chaos Era ended and wondered what the era’s end meant for the Wuhen Saint Sect and its people.
• Ye Chen left the Wuhen Treasury and allowed the Immortal Emperors outside to go free.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qing continued searching for the Demon Abyss Eye, hoping to learn more at the source of the Demon Abyss.
• Ye Chen spotted a mass of black mist filled with chaotic, folded spaces, and Murong Qing suspected it could lead to the Demon Abyss Eye.
• Ye Chen took Murong Qing’s hand and entered the black mist to keep them from being separated across different spaces.

Ye Chen and Murong Qing reached the Demon Abyss Eye, where a powerful blood-colored monster attacked them. Murong Qing was overwhelmed by its strength, and Ye Chen intervened just as its Blood-Colored Cross Slash was about to strike her.

• Ye Chen and Murong Qing crossed the chaotic spacetime and found the enormous Demon Abyss Eye.
• A hundred-zhang blood-colored monster emerged and attacked them, treating them as fresh blood meals.
• Murong Qing fought the monster with her black lotus flames, but its strength gradually forced her onto the defensive.
• The monster unleashed a Blood-Colored Cross Slash that cut through Murong Qing's flames and rushed toward her.
• Ye Chen appeared beside Murong Qing and stopped the attack, declaring that the farce would end.

Ye Chen subdued Mo Ba and learned that the Demon Abyss Eye was ruled by five kings whose power surpassed the Heavenly Emperor Realm. Mo Ba led Ye Chen and Murong Qing into Black Arrival City, where he explained that Hunyuan Divine Lords could arise in the ancient Nine Nether Demon Abyss, a remnant land older than the Myriad Realms of the Heavens.

• Ye Chen stopped the red-skinned monster's attack, immobilized him, and forced him to explain the Demon Abyss Eye's five kings and their territories.
• The monster revealed that he served the Blood Prison King, and Ye Chen used a special power to turn him into his servant, Mo Ba.
• Ye Chen ordered Mo Ba to guide him and Murong Qing into the Demon Abyss Eye, where they entered Black Arrival City.
• Mo Ba told Ye Chen and Murong Qing that Black Arrival City's lord had reached the Hunyuan Divine Lord stage, beyond Heavenly Emperor.
• Mo Ba explained that the Nine Nether Demon Abyss predated the Myriad Realms of the Heavens and preserved different laws of the Great Dao.

Ye Chen and Murong Qing entered Black Arrival City with Mo Ba, who explained how the Nine Nether Demon Abyss worked and warned them about its rulers, the five great kings. As Ye Chen prepared to seek out the strongest experts, a figure in the City Lord's Mansion noticed Mo Ba had returned.

• Mo Ba warned Ye Chen that the five great kings were invincible rulers of the Demon Abyss, but Ye Chen said he wanted to test their strength.
• Ye Chen concealed his and Murong Qing's living scents as they entered Black Arrival City with Mo Ba.
• An acquaintance leered at Murong Qing, and Mo Ba intervened to protect her while explaining his status as a guard captain.
• Mo Ba described how beings became trapped in the Nine Nether Demon Abyss and how the powerful exploited the weak in Black Arrival City.
• A figure in the City Lord's Mansion sensed Mo Ba's presence and suspected he had returned early to slack off.

Mo Ba took Ye Chen and Murong Qing to meet the Black Descent City Lord, a Hunyuan Divine Lord who demanded fresh blood food. When the city lord tried to force Murong Qing to approach him, an unseen intervention erased the pressure threatening to make her kneel.

• The Black Descent City Lord summoned Mo Ba, and Ye Chen knew about the summons before Mo Ba told him.
• Mo Ba brought Ye Chen and Murong Qing to the City Lord's Mansion and explained that he had returned after meeting friends.
• The Black Descent City Lord noticed Murong Qing and ordered her to come closer so he could admire her.
• Murong Qing resisted, and the Black Descent City Lord used his Hunyuan Divine Lord pressure to force her to her knees.
• A gentle breeze swept past Murong Qing and removed the pressure, leading her to realize the sect master had intervened.

Ye Chen confronted the Black Descent City Lord after dispelling his pressure, prompting the city lord to mistake him for a challenger seeking his position. As a crowd gathered to watch, Ye Chen remained confident and prepared to use the city lord as a test of his strength.

• The Black Descent City Lord sensed Ye Chen dispelling his pressure and accused Mo Ba of bringing an outsider to ambush him.
• Mo Ba and Murong Qing fled the City Lord's Mansion to avoid getting caught in a battle between Hunyuan Divine Lords.
• The commotion drew Black Arrival City's residents to the mansion, where they gathered to watch Ye Chen face the city lord.
• The spectators doubted Ye Chen could win, while Murong Qing defended her sect master and scolded Mo Ba for looking nervous.
• Ye Chen offered to spare the Black Descent City Lord if he yielded his position, and the furious city lord's killing intent surged.

Ye Chen effortlessly dodged the Black Descent City Lord’s attacks, provoking him while the crowd mistook the exchange for a one-sided beating. The city lord unleashed his signature Dark Cloud Explosive Killing Fist, shrouding Black Arrival City in darkness as the battle escalated.

• The Black Descent City Lord attacked Ye Chen with powerful punches, but Ye Chen evaded each one with minimal movement.
• Spectators mocked Ye Chen for dodging, while a few stronger experts noticed the city lord’s composure was becoming unsettled.
• Ye Chen taunted the Black Descent City Lord and concluded that he had used less than a tenth of his strength.
• The Black Descent City Lord declared he was getting serious and unleashed the Dark Cloud Explosive Killing Fist, covering Black Arrival City with dark clouds and overwhelming fist intent.

The Black Descent City Lord unleashed the Dark Cloud Explosive Killing Fist against Ye Chen, and the spectators assumed the attack had killed him. As the fist intent faded, the City Lord waited to see the result, while Murong Qing remained confident that the Sect Master would survive.

• The Black Descent City Lord appeared above Ye Chen and struck, but Ye Chen blocked his punch with one hand and called it passable.
• The City Lord turned the dark clouds into countless fists and bombarded Ye Chen until black light obscured him.
• The spectators feared Ye Chen had been killed, while Murong Qing trusted the Sect Master and scolded Mo Ba for panicking.
• Mo Ba said he would attack the City Lord from behind if the chance arose.
• The fist intent dissipated, and the Black Descent City Lord withdrew his fists and watched the spot where Ye Chen had stood.

Ye Chen emerged unscathed after taking the Black Descent City Lord’s Dark Cloud Explosive Killing Fist, leaving the crowd and the City Lord stunned. When the City Lord attacked again with his divine greataxe, Ye Chen caught it effortlessly in his enormous hand, and the City Lord began to fear him.

• Ye Chen appeared unharmed after the Black Descent City Lord’s Dark Cloud Explosive Killing Fist, shocking everyone watching.
• Mo Ba celebrated Ye Chen’s survival, while the Black Descent City Lord struggled to believe his attack had failed.
• Ye Chen dismissed the City Lord’s strength, prompting the City Lord to transform into a giant and summon a powerful greataxe.
• The Black Descent City Lord swung his greataxe at Ye Chen, whose body he had restrained with his power.
• Ye Chen raised an enormous hand and caught the greataxe, stopping the strike and leaving the City Lord terrified.

The Black Descent City Lord drew on the City Lord's Mansion's formations and used Demon God Transformation to strengthen himself against Ye Chen. He reclaimed his massive axe and launched an all-out strike, leaving the battle poised for a decisive clash.

• The Black Descent City Lord abandoned his trapped axe and stamped on the void to draw power from the City Lord's Mansion's formations.
• The City Lord's Mansion's formations sent seven-colored power into the Black Descent City Lord, greatly increasing his strength.
• The Black Descent City Lord used Demon God Transformation, growing to five thousand zhang and further boosting his power.
• The Black Descent City Lord shattered Ye Chen's enormous palm and reclaimed his enlarged massive axe.
• The Black Descent City Lord poured all his strength into an axe strike aimed at Ye Chen.

Ye Chen defeated the Black Descent City Lord with the Mountain and River Seal, winning the challenge and becoming Black Arrival City's new city lord. The stunned residents celebrated the change of rulers and speculated that Ye Chen would rank among the strongest city lords in the Demon Abyss Eye.

• Ye Chen used the Mountain and River Seal to stop the Black Descent City Lord's enormous axe from striking him.
• The Mountain and River Seal suppressed the city lord's attacks and crushed him beneath its mountains and rivers, breaking both his arms.
• The people of Black Arrival City watched in disbelief as Ye Chen defeated the city lord and won the challenge.
• The residents recognized Ye Chen as their new city lord and speculated that he would rank in the top ten, or even the top five, of the City Lord Rankings.

Ye Chen defeated the Black Descent City Lord and used the Mountain and River Seal to force him into becoming a servant. The defeated lord began explaining how Hunyuan experts were ranked.

• Ye Chen won the challenge, and Mo Ba loudly declared him his master while the crowd muttered about his eagerness.
• Ye Chen questioned the Black Descent City Lord about his standing among Hunyuan Divine Lords and offered to spare him as a servant.
• The Black Descent City Lord refused, so Ye Chen used the Mountain and River Seal to crush his body and soul until he surrendered.
• Ye Chen stopped the suppression after the Black Descent City Lord agreed to cooperate, and Murong Qing prepared tea beside him.
• The Black Descent City Lord began explaining the divisions among Hunyuan experts.

Ye Chen questioned the Black Descent City Lord about the Hunyuan Divine Lord ranks and the strength of the five kings. He learned that Hunyuan Divine King came after Hunyuan Divine Lord, while the next realm remained unknown.

• The Black Descent City Lord explained that each of the four Hunyuan Divine Lord stages was separated by a vast gap, and said Ye Chen seemed to be at late stage.
• Mo Ba struck the Black Descent City Lord for talking back, and Ye Chen warned him to answer directly.
• The Black Descent City Lord suspected Ye Chen was an outsider after hearing his unfamiliar questions about the realms beyond Heavenly Emperor.
• The Black Descent City Lord revealed that the five kings were all peak Hunyuan Divine Lords, and Ye Chen wondered if the Demon Abyss Eye capped cultivation at that stage.
• The Black Descent City Lord said Hunyuan Divine King came after Hunyuan Divine Lord, but admitted he knew nothing beyond that.

Ye Chen forcibly stripped half of the Black Descent City Lord’s Divine Lord origin, leaving him alive but gravely weakened, then rejected the position of city lord. Black Arrival City’s prominent figures arrived to offer gifts to the new ruler.

• Ye Chen used five golden threads to extract half of the Black Descent City Lord’s origin while sparing his life.
• The Black Descent City Lord’s cultivation fell to the Immortal Emperor Realm Stage, and Ye Chen flung him outside the city.
• Mo Ba congratulated Ye Chen on becoming city lord, but Ye Chen declared he had never wanted the position.
• Murong Qing recognized that Ye Chen had no interest in ruling Black Arrival City.
• Black Arrival City’s prominent figures hurried to the City Lord’s Mansion with valuable gifts for Ye Chen.

Ye Chen accepted a trove of gifts from Black Arrival City's powerful residents after they mistook his silence for dissatisfaction. He learned that the City Lord Rankings measured the strength of all 435 city lords, and the former city lord had ranked 105th.

• Black Arrival City's influential residents offered Ye Chen congratulations and gifts, but his indifferent reaction left them worried that he was displeased.
• A wealthy merchant added rare pills to her offering, prompting the other big shots to compete by bringing out their most precious treasures.
• Ye Chen had Murong Qing store the gifts in a spatial Law Treasure, easing the residents' nerves.
• The residents praised Ye Chen's strength and predicted that he would rank among the Demon Abyss Eye's strongest city lords.
• Ye Chen asked what the City Lord Rankings were, and the residents explained that the former city lord had ranked 105th among 435 city lords.

After learning that the Demon Abyss Eye held more than four hundred city lords, Ye Chen announced that he would kill them all. He forced the people of Black Arrival City to accept his order, leaving them too terrified to object.

• Ye Chen learned that the five great kings ruled more than four hundred cities and that the former city lord ranked one hundred and fifth.
• After hearing about the strongest city lords, Ye Chen declared that he would kill every city lord and invited anyone who objected to find him in Black Arrival City.
• The people in the City Lord's Mansion urged Ye Chen to focus on developing Black Arrival City instead of provoking the other city lords.
• Ye Chen released his cultivation pressure across Black Arrival City, crushing everyone to the ground, and warned that anyone who disobeyed his order would die.
• Ye Chen withdrew his pressure and asked if anyone still had complaints, but no one dared raise their head.

Ye Chen dismissed the city lords’ doubts about accepting his challenge and said he would hunt them down if they stayed away. After learning that the Blood Prison King was an ancient, elusive figure, Ye Chen decided to test the city lords first and leave the search for the five kings for later.

• Mo Ba warned Ye Chen that the arrogant city lords might ignore his challenge, and others voiced the same concern.
• Ye Chen said he would kill the city lords himself if they refused to come, then suggested he could instead seek out the Blood Prison King.
• Mo Ba and the scantily clad woman warned Ye Chen that the Blood Prison King was one of the five great kings and could not be defeated by a city lord.
• Mo Ba explained that the Blood Prison King had existed since the Demon Abyss Eye’s beginning and that no city lord knew where he lived or how to contact him.
• Ye Chen decided to use the city lords as opponents to test his abilities before searching for the five great kings.

Ye Chen used an enormous, expanding mountain range of Divine Source to lure the people of Black Arrival City into approaching it. The treasure’s deadly pressure killed thousands, and the survivors realized they could not claim it without risking their lives.

• Ye Chen decided to use the Divine Source to tempt the other city lords and draw them out.
• Ye Chen enlarged the Divine Source until it became a vast mountain range above Black Arrival City, stunning everyone who saw it.
• Greedy residents of Black Arrival City flew toward the Divine Source, hoping to seize some for themselves.
• An overwhelming pressure crushed the first arrivals, and those who tried again were killed when their bodies burst into blood mist.
• More than ten thousand people died, while the survivors retreated and recognized that touching the Divine Source meant death.

Ye Chen displayed a Divine Source mountain range as bait to lure other city lords into attacking him, while the people of Black Arrival City speculated about the new city lord’s power. He decided the treasure alone might not be enough and began considering another lure tied to the city’s appetite for living flesh.

• Ten people tried to reach the Divine Source mountain range and exploded into bloody mist, frightening the people of Black Arrival City into giving up their attempts.
• The residents blamed Ye Chen for the strange events and argued that displaying such a treasure would attract powerful rivals.
• Inside the City Lord's Mansion, Ye Chen asked whether the Divine Source mountain range would tempt other city lords to come seize it.
• The beautiful woman and the others agreed that the treasure would attract city lords, but warned Ye Chen that the resulting pressure would be dangerous.
• Ye Chen decided to raise the stakes and asked whether devouring living beings from outside strengthened the people of the Demon Abyss; the beautiful woman answered and then realized something was wrong.

Ye Chen revealed that he was an outsider and ordered Black Arrival City’s prominent figures to spread the news, using himself and a divine source mountain range as bait to lure powerful opponents. The rumor reached Shadow Demon City, where its lord erupted in anger over the death of his former ally, Black Arrival City’s previous lord.

• Ye Chen told the City Lord’s Mansion residents to publicize that he was a fresh living being from outside, hoping to attract formidable hunters.
• The residents spread the news throughout Black Arrival City, where its people were shocked and debated Ye Chen’s plan to lure the top city lords with his identity and a divine source mountain range.
• The news spread to nearby cities and reached the Shadow Demon City Lord, who had been on good terms with Black Arrival City’s former lord.
• The Shadow Demon City Lord smashed a precious drinking table and shouted that someone had killed his pig brother.