Recaps

Ye Chen annihilated the Lai Household experts with a single finger, destroying their Law Treasure and killing every clansman who attacked him. The surviving elder realized the Lai Household had lost its position as Cloud Dream City's overlord and faced ruin.

• The Lai Household elder watched as Ye Chen destroyed the beast sealed in his walking stick with a finger tap.
• The elder ordered the Lai Household experts, including several God Emperors, to attack Ye Chen together.
• Ye Chen tapped the air, suppressing the attackers' powers and killing them all in an instant.
• The residents of Cloud Dream City realized the Lai Household had lost its top experts and would likely lose its dominance.
• The sole surviving Lai Household elder regretted that his clansmen had attacked before he could stall for time.

The city lord of Cloud Dream City recognized Ye Chen as the powerful fiend who had slaughtered the City Guard and bowed to thank him for sparing the city. After the city lord killed the last Lai Household expert at Ye Chen’s command, Ye Chen and his two companions vanished, leaving the city lord unsure whether they had left Cloud Dream City.

• The city lord emerged from the shadows and approached Ye Chen while the crowd expected him to enforce the city’s rules.
• The city lord bowed to Ye Chen and thanked him for showing mercy and sparing Cloud Dream City.
• A bystander recognized Ye Chen as the fiend who had killed many City Guard members, and the Lai Household’s surviving senior realized he had been speaking to the very person he hoped to lure into a fight.
• Ye Chen told the city lord to handle the remaining Lai Household expert, and the city lord killed him in one stroke.
• The city lord turned to report to Ye Chen but found him and the two girls gone, and wondered whether they had left Cloud Dream City.

After the Lai Household’s leaders were killed, Cloud Dream City’s powerful families seized its assets while ordinary residents welcomed its downfall. Ye Chen and his two disciples had already left the city, and their journey ended with them encountering a fleeing princess and her pursuers.

• The Cloud Dream City lord remained anxious, unsure whether Ye Chen had left the city for good.
• The other great Lineages stripped the weakened Lai Household of its assets, while the surviving members abandoned thoughts of revenge.
• Cloud Dream City’s residents celebrated the Lai Household’s ruin, while other major powers hid in fear of Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen, Youruo, and Xie Purou traveled by cloud over a distant primeval forest and discussed the chaos they had left behind.
• A huge six-winged beast carrying a frightened princess and several companions flew toward them as the princess asked General Li whether they could survive.

The princess of the Flowing Cloud Kingdom fled with General Li after the Jade Water Kingdom conquered their capital and killed her father. As they approached three strangers on a cloud, pursuers caught up from behind.

• The princess recalled how the Jade Water Kingdom had risen from the Jade Water Sect and steadily defeated the Flowing Cloud Kingdom.
• The Jade Water Kingdom won the final battle in the Flowing Cloud Kingdom's capital, killing the ruler and driving the princess to flee with General Li.
• General Li reassured the princess that they could escape the Spirit Creek Continent, while the survivors watched for pursuers.
• General Li spotted three people on a cloud ahead and warned the group to be careful.
• A large group of experts caught up from behind just after General Li told the princess they were safe.

General Li’s party was surrounded by Peng Shan and his Jade Water Kingdom pursuers, and General Li prepared to fight to protect the princess. He tried to keep Ye Chen, Youruo, and Xie Purou out of the conflict, but Peng Shan noticed the two women and became fixated on their beauty.

• Peng Shan and his experts caught up with General Li’s party and sealed off their escape.
• General Li vowed to fight and told the princess that he and his men would open a path for her to flee.
• Peng Shan threatened the princess, prompting General Li to shield her and threaten to kill Peng Shan.
• General Li pointed out Ye Chen and the two women as innocent passersby and warned Peng Shan that they might have powerful backing.
• Peng Shan noticed Youruo and Xie Purou and became captivated by their beauty.

Peng Shan threatened to seize Youruo and Xie Purou after dismissing Ye Chen, while General Li prepared to sacrifice himself to protect them. Ye Chen and Youruo calmly declared Peng Shan would die, leaving General Li to wonder whether Ye Chen had the strength to save the Flowing Cloud Kingdom’s refugees.

• Peng Shan became obsessed with Youruo and Xie Purou and invited them to drink with him, intending to claim them after completing his mission.
• General Li warned Peng Shan not to provoke powerful people, but Peng Shan dismissed him and prepared to eliminate him and the princess of the Flowing Cloud Kingdom.
• Ye Chen told Peng Shan that he had chosen a path to death, and Peng Shan threatened to deal with him after his mission.
• General Li decided to fight Peng Shan even at the cost of his life to protect the princess and the innocent people.
• Youruo called Peng Shan annoying, and Ye Chen said he was already a corpse; General Li began to hope Ye Chen could save the refugees.

General Li and the princess hoped Ye Chen could help them survive Peng Shan’s attack, but Ye Chen killed the Jade Water Kingdom assassins with a drop of wine. The chapter ended with Peng Shan fleeing and the bloodied drop of wine still moving among the fallen men.

• General Li told the princess that Ye Chen might be their chance to survive, and she agreed that he seemed extraordinary.
• Peng Shan threatened Ye Chen and the women, then ordered his underlings to attack.
• General Li called on Ye Chen to join forces, but Ye Chen said Peng Shan had lived long enough and flicked a drop of wine at the assassins.
• The drop of wine pierced several assassins’ heads in succession, killing them despite their attempts to defend themselves.
• Peng Shan fled as the Jade Water Kingdom assassins fell, while General Li and the princess watched in shock.

Ye Chen killed Peng Shan and the Jade Water Kingdom’s assassins by flicking a single drop of wine, saving the princess of the Flowing Cloud Kingdom and her companions. Peng Shan died unable to escape, while the survivors thanked Ye Chen for rescuing them.

• Peng Shan used forbidden techniques and a pill that consumed his life force in a desperate attempt to outrun Ye Chen’s wine drop.
• The wine drop caught Peng Shan and pierced him, draining his last vitality before he died.
• General Li, the princess of the Flowing Cloud Kingdom, and the others watched in shock as Ye Chen’s attack wiped out the assassins.
• The princess of the Flowing Cloud Kingdom and General Li thanked Ye Chen for saving their lives.

Ye Chen learned that the Jade Water Kingdom’s sudden rise was tied to a dark red Strange Power that could infect and control people. Recognizing it as the foreign force threatening the Heavenly Divine Realm and the Myriad Realms of the Heavens, he decided to investigate the kingdom himself.

• General Li warned Ye Chen that killing Peng Shan, a great general of the Jade Water Kingdom, could bring the kingdom’s vengeance.
• Xie Purou said that Ye Chen and his companions were not afraid of the Jade Water Kingdom, even if it came after them.
• General Li described how the Jade Water Kingdom’s leaders wielded a dark red power that could invade bodies, drive people mad, and turn them against their allies.
• Ye Chen connected the power to the Strange Power spreading through the Heavenly Divine Realm and the Myriad Realms of the Heavens.
• Ye Chen resolved to visit the Jade Water Kingdom and investigate the Strange Power, even if its people did not come looking for him.

After Ye Chen killed Peng Shan and the Jade Water Kingdom’s assassins, he vanished with Youruo and Xie Purou, leaving General Li and the princess to marvel at his strength. General Li sent the princess toward safety while deciding to stay behind and pursue his own plan.

• Ye Chen dismissed General Li’s warning and vanished with Youruo and Xie Purou.
• General Li and the princess confirmed that Ye Chen’s group had been real by looking at the assassins’ bodies, then speculated about his power.
• General Li ordered the remaining soldiers to escort the princess off the Spirit Creek Continent to escape the Jade Water Kingdom’s pursuit.
• The soldiers and princess urged General Li to leave with them, but he insisted he was staying for a purpose, not to throw his life away.

General Li decided to return to the Jade Water Kingdom to avenge the Flowing Cloud Kingdom, and the princess and soldiers insisted on joining him. The group turned back together, hoping the powerful senior's attack would give them a chance to strike.

• General Li revealed that he planned to exploit the chaos caused by the senior's attack on the Jade Water Kingdom to kill his enemies.
• The soldiers warned General Li that returning to the Jade Water Kingdom would likely get him killed, but he refused to abandon his revenge.
• The princess said she would go back with General Li, unwilling to leave her destroyed kingdom and family unavenged.
• The soldiers chose to join the princess and General Li, declaring that they would fight their way back together.
• General Li agreed to lead them back, saying the senior's strength might keep them from dying.

The Sea Clan gathered in a hidden ocean trench after the Jade Water Kingdom slaughtered most of their people and seized their homes and resources. A powerful flood-dragon leader called on the surviving clans to unite and fight back.

• Peng Shan and the others agreed to return to the Jade Water Kingdom together and try to kill more enemies, even if they died doing so.
• The Jade Water Kingdom remained unaware of Peng Shan and the others' deaths while it continued crushing opposition and expanding its influence.
• The Jade Water Kingdom built its capital above the ocean and plundered the Sea Clan, killing nearly eighty percent of its people.
• The surviving Sea Clan formed an alliance and gathered in a hidden, chaotic trench to plan how to resist the Jade Water Kingdom.
• A powerful humanoid flood dragon urged the gathered Sea Clan to unite their strength and fight the Jade Water Kingdom.

The surviving Sea Clans gathered in the Dark Trench resolved to unite against the Jade Water Kingdom, and Han Ping proposed targeting the water pillar supporting its capital. The alliance leaders recognized that the pillar was protected, leaving them to rely on a single coordinated strike.

• Han Ping lost control of his fury over the destruction of the Cold Abyss Submerged Flood Dragon Clan until Bei Yao dispelled his pressure and urged him to save his anger for the battlefield.
• Han Ping apologized, and Bei Yao called on the Sea Clans to set aside their divisions and establish an alliance; they shouted that they could unite.
• Bei Yao counted the survivors as forty-five God Emperor experts and two hundred and eighty God King experts, and declared that their united force could defeat the Jade Water Kingdom.
• Han Ping proposed attacking the water pillar that supported the kingdom's capital, arguing that severing it would throw the capital into chaos.
• Bei Yao warned that the pillar was linked to the capital's great formation, and Han Ping said they must deliver one simultaneous strike because they would have only one chance.

Han Ping proposed that the Sea Clan destroy the Jade Water Kingdom’s water pillar and explained how they could evade detection and concentrate their attacks. After sharing a concealment method that resonated among its users, the Sea Clan mastered it and prepared to approach the pillar.

• Han Ping proposed breaking the water pillar, and Bei Yao and Hai Shan questioned how the Sea Clan could get close and strike together.
• Han Ping proposed using one formation to conceal the Sea Clan and another to gather their strength.
• Han Ping shared his concealment cultivation method and his insights with the assembled Sea Clan members.
• Most of the Sea Clan mastered the method, and its effects grew stronger as nearby users cultivated it together.
• Bei Yao tested the method and declared that it would let them approach the water pillar.

The Sea Clan prepared a formation to combine their strength against the Jade Water Kingdom, using Floating Life Spirit Illusion Stones as substitutes for the rarer Floating Life Dream Illusion Stones. With the stones inscribed and distributed, they were ready to carry out their plan.

• Mengran explained that Floating Life Dream Illusion Stones could channel many people’s power through a mother-and-child formation, but the clan lacked enough stones.
• God Emperor Mosha emerged from hiding and offered a large supply of Floating Life Spirit Illusion Stones as temporary substitutes.
• Mengran agreed to Mosha’s proposal and organized the Sea Clan formation experts to inscribe child formations onto the stones.
• The Sea Clan finished the inscriptions and distributed stones to nearly eighty percent of its members, leaving the group ready to execute the plan.

The Sea Clan used the Floating Life Spirit Illusion Stones to channel their combined power into a devastating attack that destroyed the water pillar supporting the Jade Water Kingdom's capital. As the capital began to fall, the Sea Clan launched into battle against the kingdom's furious experts.

• Mengran led the concealed Sea Clan beings to within a hundred zhang of the water pillar without being detected.
• The Sea Clan poured their power into the subsidiary arrays in their stones, transferring it to the parent array in Mengran's stone.
• Mengran threw the overcharged stone at the water pillar, and its blast collapsed the pillar and damaged the capital.
• The falling capital sent its residents fleeing, while the kingdom's experts emerged and roared that they were under attack.
• God Emperor Mosha and the Sea Clan charged the Jade Water Kingdom's experts, and the brawny man with a battle-axe began fighting God Emperor Mosha.

The Sea Clan fought the Jade Water Kingdom, but the battle shifted when supposedly dead Sea Clan experts appeared from the kingdom’s capital and attacked their former kin. Mengran realized the newcomers had embraced a mysterious pilgrimage, while God Emperor Mosha fought a former Sea Clan ally.

• Mengran and the Sea Clan charged the Jade Water Kingdom’s forces, forcing them to focus on holding their ground.
• God Emperor Mosha fought the tall, axe-wielding man as the Jade Water Kingdom’s top experts joined the battle.
• More fighters emerged from the Jade Water Kingdom’s capital, including Sea Clan experts whom God Emperor Mosha had believed dead.
• A gray octopus attacked God Emperor Mosha and declared that the Sea Clan must join them or die.
• An enormous crocodile ambushed Mengran, who questioned why it had joined the enemy despite being presumed dead.
• The crocodile denied betraying the Sea Clan and said pilgrimage would free them from the world’s cage.

Ye Chen and his disciples watched the battle between the Jade Water Kingdom and the Sea Clan to learn whether the Sea Clan experts infected by Strange Power still recognized their own kind. Ye Chen explained that the infected had been transformed from body to soul, and the fighting continued with the Sea Clan experts attacking their former clansmen.

• Mengran fought a giant crocodile who attacked her with killing intent, while the Jade Water Kingdom gained the upper hand against the Sea Clan.
• Ye Chen and his disciples watched from above as he tested whether infected Sea Clan experts retained their awareness of their former identities.
• Youruo and Xie Purou wondered why the Sea Clan experts inside the Jade Water Kingdom were fighting their own kind and guessed that their bodies had been possessed.
• Ye Chen explained that Strange Power replaced a person's identity and could alter their body, soul, memories, and sense of self.
• Ye Chen connected the infected Sea Clan experts to the scrawny old man he had killed, who believed he had awakened his true identity from the Holy Realm.

Ye Chen told Xie Purou that she would understand the strange power when she and the other disciples grew stronger. Meanwhile, Mengran defeated the giant crocodile but was badly wounded by a sword-wielding fighter, then discovered a red power invading her body through her wounds.

• Ye Chen told Xie Purou that his disciples would eventually become the main force against strange power.
• Mengran revealed her rainbow jellyfish form and used her venomous tentacles to weaken and defeat the giant crocodile.
• A thin sword-wielding fighter launched a sneak attack, and Mengran shattered his first Sword Qi strike.
• The fighter used the Great Yi Wind Dance Instruction to disperse Mengran's poisonous mist and pierced her body with a sword strike.
• Mengran plunged into the sea to recover, but found red power entering her body through her wounds.

Mengran’s attempt to expel the red strange power only accelerated its invasion, and she feared she would soon lose herself like the Sea Clan experts. Ye Chen rescued her from the sea and removed the power, leaving her to realize he had saved her from becoming another strange lifeform.

• Mengran tried to drive the red strange power from her body, but it spread faster and began to take control of her.
• Mengran suspected the power had controlled the Sea Clan experts and feared she would become like them within moments.
• An invisible force carried Mengran from the sea into the sky, where she found Ye Chen and two other unfamiliar people.
• Ye Chen pulled the writhing red threads from Mengran’s body with a simple gesture.
• Mengran thanked Ye Chen for saving her, and he explained that he had not wanted another strange lifeform.

Mengran watched the Sea Clan lose ground to the Jade Water Kingdom’s experts, who used Strange Power to infect their opponents while claiming they were freeing them. As the Sea Clan neared defeat, Ye Chen finally intervened, appearing as a colossal Dharma manifestation of light and striking down toward the battlefield.

• Mengran tried to return to the battle, but Ye Chen stopped her from risking her life again.
• Han Ping fought three opponents in his flood-dragon form and suffered severe injuries as the Sea Clan’s forces fell into despair.
• The Jade Water Kingdom’s experts urged the Sea Clan to surrender, insisting that Strange Power would awaken their true nature and give them freedom.
• Ye Chen vanished from above the battlefield, and Youruo and Xie Purou assured Mengran that he would defeat the Jade Water Kingdom.
• A gigantic Dharma manifestation of light appeared between heaven and earth and pointed an enormous finger down at the battlefield.

Ye Chen’s enormous Dharma manifestation overwhelmed the Jade Water Kingdom and Sea Clan forces, and the Jade Water Kingdom’s experts mistakenly believed a hidden Sea Clan supreme being had appeared. The manifestation erased the Jade Water Kingdom fighters while sparing the Sea Clan, leaving Han Ping to realize something was wrong.

• Ye Chen’s hundred-thousand-zhang Dharma manifestation opened its eyes and froze the combatants with its immense pressure.
• The manifestation’s descending finger battered both armies and rendered their cultivation and defenses useless.
• Jade Water Kingdom experts guessed the manifestation belonged to a Hundun Saint Emperor and unleashed their strange power in a desperate attempt to resist.
• The finger crushed the strange power and turned the Jade Water Kingdom experts to dust.
• Han Ping saw that the Sea Clan remained unharmed while the Jade Water Kingdom fighters died and realized the attack was not affecting his side.

A mysterious Dharma manifestation annihilated the Jade Water Kingdom forces while leaving the Sea Clan alive, rescuing Han Ping, Bei Yao, and the surviving merfolk. The Sea Clan celebrated its sudden victory, but Bei Yao could find no trace of Mengran.

• Han Ping realized the Dharma manifestation crushed the Jade Water Kingdom soldiers while the Sea Clan survived its overwhelming pressure.
• Bei Yao watched the giant finger strike, killing the Jade Water Kingdom's ruler and gathering the enemies' red mist into a sphere.
• The Dharma manifestation vanished after the last Jade Water Kingdom soldier died, leaving the Sea Clan alive among the bloodied reefs.
• Han Ping and the Sea Clan recognized their victory and erupted into cheers, mourning their fallen clansmen.
• Bei Yao searched with her Divine Sense but could not detect any trace of Mengran.

Ye Chen examined the Strange Power he had gathered after destroying the Jade Water Kingdom and explained that it came from outside their world. He warned Youruo and Xie Purou that Strange Lifeforms would one day be their enemies, leaving them to take the threat seriously.

• Mengran appeared unharmed and told Bei Yao that Ye Chen and his companions had saved them from the Jade Water Kingdom.
• Bei Yao and the Sea Clan experts learned that Ye Chen had created the Dharma manifestation and knelt to thank him.
• Ye Chen examined the gathered Strange Power while the Sea Clan experts realized he had removed it from their bodies without their noticing.
• Xie Purou asked Ye Chen about the power, and he explained that it came from outside their world and that they would face Strange Lifeforms in the future.
• Ye Chen warned Youruo and Xie Purou that Strange Power could overwhelm them if it invaded their bodies.

Youruo and Xie Purou insisted on testing the strange power, and Ye Chen let them experience its invasion under his watch. As the power began assimilating their bodies and immortal energy, they realized how dangerous it was, while Ye Chen remained confident they could endure the trial.

• Xie Purou and Youruo asked Ye Chen to let them test the strange power without intervening unless absolutely necessary.
• Ye Chen split the strange power in two and sent one half into each disciple as the Sea Clan experts watched.
• Xie Purou tried to drive out the invading power with her immortal energy, but it assimilated her energy and began spreading through her body.
• Youruo also tried to resist and recognized the strange power as a law that sought to assimilate her.
• Mengran and Bei Yao worried that the disciples would succumb, while Ye Chen calmly watched over them.