Recaps

Zhilan and her companions followed the trail of a mysterious expert through the Mist Swamp, finding evidence that he had annihilated powerful monsters with a single attack. They grew eager to find him, while Zhilan privately suspected he was the striking man she had met earlier.

• Zhilan and her companions found a vast stretch of the Mist Swamp burned away, with only a few terrified Swamp Tree Demons surviving.
• Zhilan suspected the mysterious expert they had met earlier was responsible, while the bearded man and the others decided to follow the scorched trail.
• The ten companions hurried onward, hoping to catch up with the expert and escape the Mist Swamp more safely.
• They discovered more than a dozen Crimson Shadow Soaring Serpents cut into pieces, including one whose oppressive aura revealed it had reached the hunyuan divine lord realm stage.
• The bearded man concluded that the expert had killed every serpent in a single move and excitedly guessed that he might be a hunyuan divine king realm expert.

Ye Chen entered the deepest part of the Mist Swamp, where powerful swamp creatures demanded that he leave and then attacked after he refused. A ten-person group caught up with him, and Zhilan recognized him as the mysterious expert they had been pursuing, while the bearded man and the others were shocked and embarrassed.

• Ye Chen entered the deepest region of the Mist Swamp and sensed the hostility of its powerful creatures.
• Several swamp creatures ordered Ye Chen to leave, but he calmly warned them not to provoke him.
• The swamp creatures erupted in anger and murderous intent, preparing to kill Ye Chen.
• The ten-person group caught up with Ye Chen, hoping the mysterious expert would protect them.
• Zhilan recognized Ye Chen and greeted him with delight, while the bearded man and his companions were stunned to learn the expert was Ye Chen.

Five Kings of the swamp creatures surrounded Ye Chen and launched a combined attack while Zhilan and the others watched in terror. Ye Chen remained calm as their attacks closed in.

• Five Kings of the swamp creatures emerged from the fog and surrounded Ye Chen.
• Zhilan and the bearded man feared the Kings would overwhelm Ye Chen and kill them all.
• Ye Chen said he had given the Kings a chance, but they had failed to take it.
• The swamp bull demon, giant octopus, spider, sludge mass, and purple vines attacked Ye Chen together.
• Zhilan and the others were overcome with terror as the five Kings' attacks converged on Ye Chen.

Ye Chen erased the five swamp Kings with a mysterious breeze, saving Zhilan and the others from their combined assault. The swamp creatures fled in fear, unable to understand how the Kings had vanished.

• The swamp bull demon attacked Ye Chen with a black pillar of light, but Ye Chen’s breeze dissolved the attack and erased the demon.
• The breeze erased the giant swamp spider, the giant octopus, the purple vine, and the enormous mass of sludge as they tried to resist or escape.
• Ye Chen remained motionless as all five Kings disappeared, leaving the depths of the Mist Swamp silent and bewildered.
• Zhilan and her companions realized they had survived and stared in shock at Ye Chen.
• The swamp creatures retreated from Ye Chen, afraid that he would erase them as well.

Ye Chen faced three Hunyuan Divine Emperor swamp creatures after the other Kings fled in fear of his power. He revealed he intended to reach the deepest part of the Mist Swamp, where the creatures warned him that a dangerous change had occurred.

• The swamp Kings panicked over Ye Chen's unexplained power and dared not confront him.
• Zhilan and the others realized Ye Chen's arrival had saved them, and Zhilan discreetly changed her soiled skirt.
• A gray scorpion, a gigantic rhinoceros, and a black-and-white bat emerged from the mist as Hunyuan Divine Emperors.
• The gray scorpion cautiously asked Ye Chen why he had entered their territory, and Ye Chen said he would not trouble them if they stayed out of his way.
• Ye Chen said he was heading to the deepest part of the swamp, and the bat warned him that the area had become extraordinarily dangerous.

Ye Chen entered the deepest reaches of the Mist Swamp to confront the eerie red power seeping from a spatial rift, while the swamp’s Kings and Emperors followed him. Zhilan chose to go after Ye Chen, but the bearded man and the others abandoned her and retreated.

• Ye Chen ignored the swamp creatures’ warnings and walked into the deepest reaches, prompting the Kings and Emperors to follow him.
• Zhilan’s companions urged the bearded man to retreat, and he ordered them to retrace their route through the swamp.
• Zhilan went in the opposite direction to pursue Ye Chen, while the bearded man cursed her and refused to wait.
• Ye Chen reached the region around a spatial rift, where red Qi had tainted the swamp, trees, and stones.
• The giant scorpion warned Ye Chen that the red power had infected many Kings and Emperors, causing them to lose their reason and spread the infection through contact.

Ye Chen broke the formation sealing the infected swamp creatures, restrained them, and stripped the eerie power from their bodies. After cleansing the creatures and collecting the power leaking from the rift, he discovered it continued to seep out and entered the rift to investigate its source.

• The giant scorpion explained that the swamp creatures had obtained the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Great Demon-Sealing Formation from a human cultivator to seal the infected creatures.
• Ye Chen said the formation could not contain the eerie power forever and destroyed it with a single palm strike.
• Fifteen infected Hunyuan Divine Kings and five infected Hunyuan Divine Emperors escaped, but Ye Chen restrained them all with an invisible force.
• Ye Chen used multicolored threads to strip the eerie power from the infected creatures, allowing them to regain consciousness.
• Ye Chen collected the eerie power leaking from the rift, noticed that more continued to emerge, and entered the rift to find its source.

Ye Chen entered a void rift and found a vast altar saturated with eerie power, then explored its battlefield-strewn surface and discovered a powerful skeleton seated above something hidden within. The altar began shaking as an unknown force struck from inside, leaving Ye Chen facing the question of what had survived beneath it.

• The swamp creatures worried that Ye Chen might be infected after he entered the rift, but they hoped his strength as a Hundun Saint Emperor would let him find the source of the eerie power.
• Ye Chen arrived at an enormous altar shrouded in red eerie power and resisted its force as it tried to drag him onto it.
• Ye Chen pushed away the eerie power and used a Great Dao Treasure Vase to absorb it while examining the corpses and bones of powerful Heavenly Divine Realm creatures scattered across the altar.
• Ye Chen flew to the altar's summit and found a five-hundred-zhang skeleton seated on a throne, which he suspected was suppressing the source of the eerie power.
• Ye Chen could not see through the throne into the altar, and before he could investigate further, the altar shook as something inside struck against it.

Ye Chen watched the strange power break through the altar’s cracks while the skeleton struggled to suppress it, and the giant scorpion was dragged inside the spatial rift. The Great Dao Treasure Vase saved the scorpion, but strange Hunyuan Divine Emperor creatures began escaping from the collapsing altar.

• The altar cracked under the thing sealed inside, and the skeleton’s remnant resolve briefly suppressed the leaking strange power.
• The altar shook more violently as Ye Chen watched, while the swamp creatures debated whether to approach the spatial rift.
• The giant scorpion peered into the rift, was pulled toward the altar, and was engulfed by strange power.
• Ye Chen’s Great Dao Treasure Vase appeared and absorbed the strange power surrounding the giant scorpion, saving him.
• A strange lion, a flood dragon, and other powerful creatures emerged from the altar’s widening cracks.

Ye Chen watched as the damaged altar broke apart and the eerie creature sealed within escaped in the form of a red tornado, revealing a thin old man in red robes. The Divine Martial Saint Emperor skeleton fought to stop him, but the old man overwhelmed him and began shattering his bones.

• The Divine Martial Saint Emperor skeleton and the other revived remains attacked the eerie creatures pouring from the altar while Ye Chen watched.
• The voice inside the altar revealed that the eerie creatures had once been companions of the skeletons, then boasted that the broken altar could no longer hold him.
• The altar exploded, and a red tornado emerged before revealing a thin old man who mocked the skeleton and claimed victory.
• The Divine Martial Saint Emperor skeleton charged the old man, but the old man caught most of his sword light and formed a massive red war spear.
• The skeleton tried to stop the spear with his hands, but it crushed his fingers and wrists and cracked bones throughout his body.

The Divine Martial Saint Emperor struggled against the scrawny old man after the old man broke free, while Ye Chen watched from the altar. When the Divine Martial Saint Emperor tried to protect Ye Chen, Ye Chen stopped the old man’s attack and revealed power on the level of a Hundun Saint Emperor.

• The scrawny old man shattered the True Dragon skeleton and the other skeletons, then heavily damaged the Divine Martial Saint Emperor.
• The scrawny old man prepared to kill the Divine Martial Saint Emperor, who vowed to defend the Heavenly Divine Realm even at the cost of his life.
• Ye Chen revealed himself and told the Divine Martial Saint Emperor to leave the fight to him, but the Divine Martial Saint Emperor charged at the old man to protect him.
• The scrawny old man sent a divine talisman at the Divine Martial Saint Emperor, and Ye Chen blocked it with a giant hand of light and crushed it.
• The Divine Martial Saint Emperor realized Ye Chen had Hundun Saint Emperor-level power, and Ye Chen gave an ambiguous confirmation.

Ye Chen confronted the gaunt old man after the Divine Martial Saint Emperor stepped aside, and demonstrated overwhelming command of the Great Dao, yin-yang, and spacetime. The old man trapped Ye Chen in an uncanny-power otherworld and tried to recruit him, but Ye Chen refused and continued attacking.

• The Divine Martial Saint Emperor welcomed Ye Chen as a potential Hundun Saint Emperor, but Ye Chen told him to rest while he handled the gaunt old man alone.
• Ye Chen absorbed the old man's blood-red attack with a Great Dao pagoda and dissolved his uncanny-power beast manifestation with a taiji circle.
• Ye Chen deflected the old man's cane strike and evaded its follow-up by leaving the current spacetime.
• The gaunt old man trapped Ye Chen in an otherworld formed from uncanny power, where spacetime and the laws of the Great Dao became chaotic, then offered to join forces with him.
• Ye Chen rejected the offer and attacked the old man, now a gigantic ghost face, with countless immortal Sword-Rays and a radiant Law Seal, forcing it to roar in pain.

Ye Chen overpowered the gaunt old man, broke free of his eerie-power cage, and stopped his escape into the Heavenly Divine Realm. He then used the immortal bell to suppress the gaunt old man, while the Divine Martial Saint Emperor watched in shock.

• Ye Chen ignited the eerie power inside the gaunt old man's maw with chaos flame, badly injuring him.
• The gaunt old man enveloped Ye Chen in eerie power, but Ye Chen split the mass apart with a sword strike and emerged unharmed.
• The gaunt old man tried to flee through a rift to the Heavenly Divine Realm, using his walking stick's cage to restrain Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen cut through the eerie nets, split the walking-stick space, and blasted apart the rift before the gaunt old man could escape.
• Ye Chen summoned the immortal bell and suppressed the gaunt old man inside it, ending the battle as the Divine Martial Saint Emperor watched in astonishment.

After Ye Chen defeated the gaunt old man, the Divine Martial Saint Emperor questioned him about his origins and explained how the Foreign Domain’s strange power transformed Heavenly Divine Realm powerhouses. As the Saint Emperor faded, Ye Chen preserved his divine soul, while the great scorpion feared the catastrophe awaiting the realm.

• The Divine Martial Saint Emperor praised Ye Chen, then was stunned to learn Ye Chen had ascended from the Myriad Realms of the Heavens less than half a year earlier.
• The Divine Martial Saint Emperor explained that strange power from the Foreign Domain infected Heavenly Divine Realm powerhouses, replacing their allegiance and turning them into enemies.
• Ye Chen learned that the gaunt old man had once been a Heavenly Divine Realm being, and the Divine Martial Saint Emperor warned him not to enter the dangerous Foreign Domain.
• As the Divine Martial Saint Emperor's remains crumbled, Ye Chen drew out and preserved his fading wisp of divine soul.
• The great scorpion watched Ye Chen and feared that the future catastrophe would reach even the Mist Swamp.

Ye Chen resolved the contamination in the Mist Swamp, brought Zhilan out, and returned to Kunlun Holy Land to preserve the Divine Martial Saint Emperor’s remnant soul and question the gaunt old man. The prisoner revealed that strange beings called the Foreign Domain the Holy Realm and strange power holy power, while Ye Chen’s two trees bickered nearby.

• Ye Chen returned from the source of the Mist Swamp’s contamination with the giant scorpion and told the swamp creatures that the contamination was gone, though it was not the true source of the strangeness.
• Ye Chen took Zhilan out of the swamp and told her that her senior brothers had all died before leaving her behind.
• At Kunlun Holy Land, Ye Chen placed the Divine Martial Saint Emperor’s remnant soul in a box made from the Azure Nether Illusory Spirit Root to nourish it.
• Ye Chen released the gaunt old man from the immortal bell and asked about the source of strange power, its origin, and how to resist it.
• The gaunt old man insisted he was a being of the Holy Realm and called strange power holy power, while Ye Chen sealed his mouth after hearing his claims.
• The Dao Comprehension Tea Tree complained about the old man’s noise, and Jianmu teased him, starting an argument between the two trees.

Ye Chen questioned a gaunt old man about the Holy Realm and the Supreme Heavenly Emperor, but the man destroyed himself before revealing more. Meanwhile, the Genius Battle’s third round began, and Mu Yan drew Gu Xinghui as his opponent, remaining calm despite the crowd’s doubts.

• Ye Chen considered how eerie power changed its victims and questioned the gaunt old man about the Holy Realm and the Supreme Heavenly Emperor.
• The gaunt old man refused to reveal more and destroyed his body and soul with the eerie power.
• Ye Chen resolved to focus on growing stronger, then turned his attention to his disciples in the Genius Battle.
• The third round began, and Mu Yan received a token that matched him against Gu Xinghui, the Vast Sea Sect’s top genius.
• The crowd expected Gu Xinghui to win and mocked Mu Yan’s calm, while Gu Xinghui dismissed it as an act.

The third-round matchups paired all four top geniuses with Kunlun disciples, a deliberate test arranged by the Vast Sea Sect Master and other powerful figures. Xue Yuexin and Zixing began their closely watched arena battle, where Zixing shattered Xue Yuexin’s blood-red lotus with a casual strike.

• Gu Xinghui dismissed Mu Yan as an unworthy opponent, while Xue Yuexin drew Kunlun disciple Zixing and looked forward to testing her.
• Yu Yang was matched with Han Li and Wan Tianhua with Ziyue, prompting spectators to suspect the pairings had been deliberately arranged against the Kunlun disciples.
• The Vast Sea Sect Master admitted arranging the matchups to probe the Kunlun disciples’ abilities, and the powerful figures discussed the possibility that Kunlun had a mid Hunyuan Divine Emperor protecting it.
• Xue Yuexin and Zixing entered their arena as spectators gathered to watch the two beauties fight.
• Xue Yuexin sent a blood-colored lotus at Zixing, who destroyed it with a tiny flash of immortal light and surprised the crowd with her strength.

Zixing stunned the spectators by evading Xue Yuexin’s attacks with extraordinary speed and withstanding the Jade Sea Tide-Rising Song without apparent effort. Xue Yuexin’s strongest sonic assault continued to wash over Zixing, leaving the crowd wondering what was protecting her.

• Zixing dodged Xue Yuexin’s opening attacks so quickly that even the spectators could not see her movements.
• Xue Yuexin mistook Zixing’s reliance on speed for a weakness in direct combat and drew the flute Azure Firmament Severing Autumn.
• Xue Yuexin played the Jade Sea Tide-Rising Song, whose sound waves spread across the arena and made Zixing’s speed useless for escaping.
• Zixing neutralized the song’s first wave with faint immortal light and remained unharmed as Xue Yuexin’s repeated attacks continued.
• The spectators wondered whether Zixing was using a forbidden Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon to withstand the song.

Zixing continued to withstand Xue Yuexin’s attacks with effortless, Dao-infused defenses, while Xue Yuexin escalated her power by pushing the Lotus Birth Nine Revolutions Immortal Instruction to its ninth revolution. The chapter ended with Xue Yuexin unleashing her full strength and vowing to defeat Zixing, who still had not revealed her true power.

• Zixing calmly deflected Xue Yuexin’s increasingly fierce attacks while using only her left hand, impressing the spectators and the sect leaders watching above.
• Xue Yuexin manifested three blood-colored lotuses and drove the Lotus Birth Nine Revolutions Immortal Instruction to its ninth revolution, greatly increasing her strength.
• Xue Yuexin unleashed Blood Lotus Kill and Honglian Heart Burning, but Zixing broke apart or neutralized every attack.
• Xue Yuexin grew frustrated that she still could not harm Zixing and vowed to defeat her by breaking through all her methods.

Xue Yuexin used her mastery of formations to lay out three incomplete Immortal Emperor formations against Zixing, exhausting herself as she prepared to suppress and kill her opponent. The chapter ended with Xue Yuexin confident in her advantage while Zixing still had not acted.

• Xue Yuexin formed the Heavenly Net Immortal-Binding Formation, which suppressed movement and carried the pressure of an Immortal Emperor.
• Xue Yuexin continued laying out formations while Zixing watched without interrupting, and spectators assumed she had accepted defeat.
• Xue Yuexin activated the Six Directions Void-Transmutation Formation and the Blood Baleful Intent Purgatory Formation, creating three layered incomplete Immortal Emperor formations.
• Exhausted from activating the formations, Xue Yuexin told Zixing that losing to her would be an honor.
• The Vast Sea Sect Master praised Xue Yuexin's formation talent as the spectators feared the combined formations would defeat Zixing.

Zixing defeated Xue Yuexin after destroying her three incomplete Immortal Emperor formations with a single finger, stunning the spectators and establishing herself as a possible strongest genius in the Void Kun Realm. Xue Yuexin was rescued by the Master of the Blood Jade Palace, who stabilized her severe injuries.

• Xue Yuexin unleashed the Heavenly Net Immortal-Binding Formation, the Six Directions Void-Transmutation Formation, and the Blood Baleful Intent Purgatory Formation against Zixing.
• Zixing tapped the air with one finger, causing all three formations to collapse and their backlash to leave Xue Yuexin unconscious and gravely injured.
• The Master of the Blood Jade Palace rescued Xue Yuexin from the rampaging formation power and treated her injuries.
• The referee declared Zixing the winner, while spectators speculated that her true strength might rival an Immortal Emperor.
• The Master of the Blood Jade Palace stabilized Xue Yuexin and confirmed that she had survived without hidden injuries.

Zixing defeated Xue Yuexin and drew offers from the Void Kun Realm’s leading sects, but she rejected them all and chose to remain in Kunlun Holy Land. She left the other sect masters questioning her decision and insisting their forces were superior.

• Zixing defeated Xue Yuexin by breaking three remnant Immortal Emperor formations, while the sect masters suspected she had reached Alternative Dao Attainment or even the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• The Master of the Blood Jade Palace set aside her anger over Xue Yuexin’s defeat and said she also intended to recruit Zixing.
• The masters of several first-rate forces offered Zixing generous terms, and the four top forces also invited her to join them.
• Zixing thanked the sect masters but refused to leave Kunlun Holy Land, surprising the gathered crowd.
• When the Vast Sea Sect Master questioned whether Kunlun was superior to his sect, Zixing earnestly affirmed that it was.

Zixing refused the Vast Sea Sect Master's invitation and was protected by the Master of the Blood Jade Palace, while the other leaders offered her a chance to visit their sects. The chapter then followed Mu Yan's arena battle with Gu Xinghui, who escalated through powerful attacks and a curse, only for Mu Yan to remain unharmed and force the curse out.

• Zixing rejected the Vast Sea Sect Master's final offer, and he tried to kill her before the Master of the Blood Jade Palace intervened to protect her.
• The Masters of Refining God Manor and the Ten Thousand Heroes Sect invited Zixing to visit, and the Vast Sea Sect Master left without being able to harm her.
• Mu Yan faced Gu Xinghui in the arena, caught his punch, and evaded the attacks of his Great Expansion Spirit Transformation Hand.
• Gu Xinghui used the Taotie Essence-Devouring Instruction, but Mu Yan stood unaffected and sliced the Taotie phantom in half with a golden light.
• Gu Xinghui cursed Mu Yan with the Returning Light Immortal Incantation and attacked with his immortal sword, but Mu Yan forced the curse from his body and toyed with it on his fingertip.

Mu Yan withstood Gu Xinghui’s curse and sword techniques, forcing the renowned genius onto the defensive. Gu Xinghui revealed his Azure-Scaled Qiu Dragon Clan half-dragon form and attacked Mu Yan with his claws.

• Mu Yan crushed Gu Xinghui’s curse power and used a golden fire lotus to block Blood River Three Thousand Swords.
• Gu Xinghui gathered his Sword-Rays into Blood River Killing Sword, but Mu Yan’s golden flames held firm and the backlash drove Gu Xinghui back.
• Gu Xinghui declared he would use his full power as spectators discussed Mu Yan’s strength and Zixing’s victory over Xue Yuexin.
• Gu Xinghui transformed into his Azure-Scaled Qiu Dragon Clan half-dragon form, drawing alarm from the spectators.
• Mu Yan compared Gu Xinghui unfavorably to his junior brother Qin Haoran, and Gu Xinghui lunged at him with slashing dragon claws.

Mu Yan effortlessly countered Gu Xinghui’s powerful attacks, prompting Gu Xinghui to reveal his true dragon body and fight at full strength. Gu Xinghui launched a sudden azure beam, but Mu Yan split it with a tiny sword of golden flame and sent the sword toward him.

• Mu Yan calmly repelled Gu Xinghui’s rapid claw attacks and burned away his Heavenly Tribulation Star-Shattering Claw with a wisp of golden flame.
• Gu Xinghui transformed from his half-dragon form into the Azure-Scaled Qiu Dragon Clan’s enormous true body.
• The sect masters watched the battle and debated whether Gu Xinghui could overcome Mu Yan, with the Vast Sea Sect Master insisting Gu Xinghui would not lose.
• Gu Xinghui suddenly fired an azure beam at Mu Yan, who formed a small golden sword and split the beam in two.
• Mu Yan’s golden sword continued through the divided beam toward Gu Xinghui, threatening him.