Recaps

Youruo and Xie Purou rejected Cao Jian’s attempts to ingratiate himself, then Xie Purou openly defied Ashen Annihilation City’s guards and declared the city would soon be destroyed. The guards prepared to attack as the crowd scattered, while Cao Jian feared his earlier approach had made him look like their accomplice.

• Cao Jian introduced himself as the heir to the Cao Merchant Association and offered to help Youruo and Xie Purou, but Youruo dismissed him and refused his offer to cover their entrance fees.
• At the city gate, a guard demanded to know where Ye Chen and his two companions came from and why they wanted to enter.
• Xie Purou challenged the guard’s authority, shocking the crowd and causing Cao Jian to retreat and hide behind other cultivators.
• The guards surrounded Ye Chen and his two companions and threatened Xie Purou with death for violating the city’s rules.
• Xie Purou said Ashen Annihilation City would soon be gone, prompting the crowd to flee and leaving Cao Jian terrified that the guards would associate him with them.

Xie Purou fought the City Guard squad captain after he attacked her for defying Ashen Annihilation City's rules. She used her crimson battle armor and Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning to defeat him, leaving the surrounding crowd afraid of the City Guards' likely retaliation.

• The City Guard squad captain drew his sword and attacked Xie Purou, accusing her of defying the city's rules and insulting the Shangguan Household's authority.
• Xie Purou summoned crimson lightning armor that raised her power to the mid Hunyuan Divine Emperor stage, then struck the captain's sword aside and paralyzed half his body with her lightning.
• The captain severed the lightning-ravaged half of his body to survive, but Xie Purou pursued him with her Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning Slash.
• The captain used an ancient jade pendant to form a defensive wall, but Xie Purou's lightning saber destroyed it and wounded him before he fell unconscious.
• The onlookers and remaining City Guards stared at the fallen captain, fearing the consequences of Xie Purou's public attack on the guards.

Xie Purou and Youruo fought the Ashen Annihilation City guards after Xie Purou killed a squad captain at the north gate. They overwhelmed the arriving guards, leaving the gathered spectators stunned by their strength.

• Xie Purou killed the City Guard squad captain, prompting guards across Ashen Annihilation City to race toward the north gate.
• A black-armored commander ordered his guards to seize Xie Purou and Youruo and kill anyone who resisted.
• Xie Purou charged into the guards with Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning while Youruo attacked with her water techniques.
• Youruo battered the guards with the Azure Tide Thousand-Layer Palm, water spikes, and Sea-Overturning Instruction.
• Xie Purou killed guards with lightning, and the two women slaughtered the group together.
• The spectators inside and outside the city watched in shock as the two young women defeated the guards.

Xie Purou fought off Ashen Annihilation City's guards and destroyed the commander's dragon attack with her Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning. As hundreds of reinforcements arrived, a towering commander attacked her under the city's laws.

• Xie Purou and Youruo overwhelmed the City Guard soldiers at Ashen Annihilation City's gate.
• The City Guard commander unleashed a white dragon with his Late God Emperor Stage power, but Xie Purou destroyed it with Thunder Dragon Break.
• Onlookers recognized Xie Purou's Nine Tribulations Immortal Physique, while the defeated commander threatened her.
• Hundreds of reinforcements, including more than a dozen Late God Emperor Stage experts, surrounded Xie Purou and Youruo.
• A skinny cultivator coveted Xie Purou's physique, and the towering brawny commander attacked her with a punch.

Youruo fought off Ashen Annihilation City's generals with her blue armor and water-based techniques, turning their coordinated assault against them and trapping several in a divine soul illusion. After dodging a spear and a giant seal, she stood on a nearby rock as the remaining lucid generals still struggled to harm her.

• Youruo summoned blue armor and used a torrent to repel the burly general, while Xie Purou remained the focus of the enemy’s attention.
• The generals attacked Youruo and Xie Purou together, but Youruo redirected a saber strike into the burly man’s fist, wounding him and provoking an argument with the saber wielder.
• Youruo used Sound of the Eternal Night Tide to trap several nearby generals in an illusion of a dark ocean, while the others tried to resist the divine soul attack.
• A spear-wielding general charged Youruo, but her water flood dragon knocked his spear off course and sent it into a rock.
• A round-faced general summoned a giant Mountain-Suppressing Seal, but Youruo used a whale made of seawater to slow it and escaped its lock-on range.
• Youruo surveyed the battlefield from a rock, recognizing the three generals trapped in her illusion as her best opening.

Youruo killed the bearded general with a soul attack and an immortal sword while Xie Purou fought the remaining generals. Xie Purou broke a spatial attack from a three-winged general and destroyed his follow-up silver net, leaving him unable to overcome her.

• Youruo shattered the bearded general’s soul with Illusory Whale Kill and pierced his chest with an immortal sword, killing him.
• Youruo’s death of their companion enraged the remaining generals, but they struggled to catch her as she darted through the battlefield.
• Xie Purou raced through the enemy ranks in her red lightning armor, evading their attacks.
• A general with three pairs of wings used the Dao of Space to catch Xie Purou and lock her in place beneath a powerful wing strike.
• Xie Purou broke the spatial lockdown with red nine tribulations divine lightning and countered his wings with Divine Lightning Slash, forcing him back and snapping several feathers.
• The winged general sent a silver net of spatial blades at Xie Purou, but her Lightning Radiance Flash broke through and neutralized the attack.

Xie Purou defeated the purple-lightning general’s surprise attack and killed him with her Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning. As she turned toward a new threat, a black spear pierced the space where she had just been standing.

• The purple-lightning general attacked Xie Purou from behind with a lightning dragon, but she sensed the danger and destroyed it with her scarlet lightning dragon.
• Xie Purou retaliated with Lightning Five Consecutive Whips, and the purple-lightning general tried to block her strike with a lightning net.
• Xie Purou’s whip cut through the net and struck the purple-lightning general, cleaving him in two and destroying his vitality with Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning.
• Xie Purou sensed another lethal threat and moved aside just before a black spear pierced the ground where she had been standing.

Several generals trapped Xie Purou in a Five Elements formation and the spear-wielding general launched a surprise attack. Her dark red armor repelled the empowered thrust without a scratch, leaving him to realize that only a coordinated attack might penetrate it.

• The generals formed a Five Elements formation to suppress Xie Purou, but its pressure also immobilized several of their own allies.
• The spear-wielding general ordered the suppressed generals to stand aside and attacked Xie Purou with his Phantom Flowing Light Thrust.
• Runes and scarlet lightning activated across Xie Purou’s armor, dispelling the formation’s pressure and restoring her agility.
• Xie Purou stood still as the spear struck her chest, and her armor blocked the full-force attack without sustaining a scratch.
• The spear-wielding general realized the armor was extraordinarily powerful and considered having all the generals focus their attacks on one point.

Xie Purou used her lightning armor to kill another general despite the suppression formation, leaving the remaining generals too frightened to attack. They chose to stall with evasion and defense while waiting for reinforcements from Ashen Annihilation City.

• Xie Purou struck the spear-wielding general with concentrated crimson lightning, disrupting his Immortal Power and forcing him back.
• Xie Purou blasted the spear-wielding general through his defensive barrier and killed him when he crashed into a distant mountain.
• The generals realized Xie Purou's armor let her resist the formation and overpower them, and they hesitated to attack her.
• Xie Purou mocked the generals for refusing to fight, but they held their encirclement without advancing.
• A burly general declared that they would evade and defend until reinforcements arrived, while another warned that generals from other districts and the city lord would soon come.

Xie Purou and Youruo held off Ashen Annihilation City's commanders while reinforcements gathered, and Ye Chen watched calmly from the crowd. General Black Viper arrived with over a hundred commanders, punished one subordinate for failing to subdue the women, and turned his attention toward the standoff.

• Xie Purou and Youruo kept the commanders at bay after killing several of them, while Ye Chen watched from among the spectators.
• Cao Jian and the crowd feared the women would face overwhelming retaliation for defying Ashen Annihilation City's rules.
• More than a hundred late Hunyuan Divine Emperor commanders arrived at the city gates in response to the fighting.
• General Black Viper scolded the commanders who had failed to defeat Xie Purou and Youruo.
• General Black Viper struck a commander with his tail, sending him crashing into the plaza and silencing the assembled commanders.

General Black Viper attacked Youruo after suspecting she and Xie Purou had come to Ashen Annihilation City to provoke the Shangguan Household Clan. Her armor protected her from his strike, and Black Viper transformed into his true form as he prepared to fight in earnest.

• General Black Viper examined Youruo and Xie Purou's armor and suspected they were backed by a powerful clan opposed to the Shangguan Household Clan.
• General Black Viper lashed Youruo with his tail, immobilizing her with the gulf in their strength and hurling her through dozens of mountains.
• Youruo emerged from the rubble unharmed, and the onlookers realized her blue armor had withstood Black Viper's full-force attack.
• General Black Viper vowed that Youruo and Xie Purou would not leave Ashen Annihilation City or the realm, then transformed into his upright, humanoid snake-demon true form.
• Black Viper's growing presence frightened the officers, who realized he was getting serious.

General Black Viper attacked Xie Purou and Youruo, but their armor protected them from his powerful blows. When Youruo claimed their master was watching, the commanders searched the crowd, and Cao Jian realized Ye Chen had been with the two women all along.

• General Black Viper vanished from sight and struck Xie Purou, shattering her lightning defense and sending her flying, though her armor kept her from being injured.
• Xie Purou steadied herself and vowed to defeat her enemies through her own strength rather than relying on armor.
• General Black Viper confronted Youruo and neutralized her water attack, then mocked the two women’s strength without their armor.
• Youruo taunted General Black Viper by claiming their master would soon act, prompting him to search the crowd for the hidden expert.
• The commanders and spectators examined the crowd, while Cao Jian recognized Ye Chen as the quiet man who had arrived with Youruo and Xie Purou.

Ye Chen revealed himself as the master of Youruo and Xie Purou and effortlessly destroyed General Black Viper’s serpent attack with a breath. General Black Viper then charged and threw a devastating punch at Ye Chen, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Ye Chen rose into the air, and the generals of Ashen Annihilation City realized he was the women’s master.
• General Black Viper challenged Ye Chen and unleashed Ten Thousand Serpents Devour the Heavens, sending a vast swarm of black snakes toward him.
• Ye Chen exhaled a gale that cut apart every snake and left the watching generals stunned.
• General Black Viper responded with fury and battle intent, gathered his power into his fist, and charged at Ye Chen.
• General Black Viper’s punch shattered the space before him as it reached Ye Chen.

Ye Chen casually traced a pale golden Sword-Ray that shattered General Black Viper’s ultimate attack and killed him. The soldiers were left frozen in shock, having witnessed Ye Chen’s overwhelming strength.

• General Black Viper unleashed his full power in a devastating punch aimed at Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen calmly traced a pale golden Sword-Ray that sliced through Black Viper’s fist and pierced his chest.
• Black Viper realized the Sword-Ray was destroying his meridians and suspected Ye Chen was a Hundun Saint Emperor.
• Countless Sword-Rays burst from Black Viper’s body, killing him and scattering his remains across the battlefield.
• The soldiers stared in stunned silence at Black Viper’s death and Ye Chen’s effortless victory.

Ye Chen killed General Black Viper with a casual Sword-Ray, leaving Ashen Annihilation City’s officers convinced he might be a Hundun Saint Emperor. As Ye Chen reunited with Xie Purou and Youruo, the city lord emerged from the City Lord’s Mansion to confront the killer.

• Ye Chen killed General Black Viper with a single Sword-Ray, shocking the gathered soldiers and officers.
• Ashen Annihilation City’s officers feared Ye Chen was a Hundun Saint Emperor and stayed motionless rather than risk provoking him.
• Youruo and Xie Purou joined Ye Chen, and he reminded Xie Purou that her armor was meant to protect her rather than make her reckless.
• The City Lord’s Mansion erupted into turmoil over Black Viper’s death, and the city lord vowed that the killer would face its wrath.
• The lord of Ashen Annihilation City flew out of the great hall in blue-black armor and headed into the sky.

The Lord of Ashen Annihilation City and two Shangguan Household Clan experts rushed to confront Ye Chen after he killed General Black Viper. Their arrival revived the city's soldiers' hopes, but the possibility that Ye Chen was a Hundun Saint Emperor left them fearing the three might not be able to defeat him.

• The Lord of Ashen Annihilation City prepared to attack Ye Chen, but a woman and an elder warned him not to act rashly against someone who had killed General Black Viper.
• The three Shangguan Household Clan experts agreed to attack together and flew to face Ye Chen above the city gate.
• The city lord and his companions released their combined pressure, frightening the soldiers while restoring the city's morale.
• The soldiers celebrated the arrival of the three experts and assumed they would defeat Ye Chen.
• A young commander pointed out that Ye Chen might be a Hundun Saint Emperor, and the soldiers' hope gave way to renewed fear.

The Lord of Ashen Annihilation City tried to invoke the Shangguan Household Clan’s power and negotiate peace with Ye Chen, but Ye Chen dismissed him and claimed even Shangguan Yan would not dare speak to him that way. The city lord recognized Shangguan Yan as his clan’s ancestor, lost his composure, and charged at Ye Chen.

• The Lord of Ashen Annihilation City confronted Ye Chen, wary of his apparent strength, and asked why he had come to the Shangguan Household Clan’s territory.
• Ye Chen mocked the clan, prompting the city lord to offer to treat the conflict as a misunderstanding and make peace.
• Ye Chen said Shangguan Yan would not dare speak to him that way, shocking the city lord and his two companions when they realized he meant their Saint Emperor ancestor.
• The city lord accused Ye Chen of using Shangguan Yan’s name to bluff and declared that he would fight Ye Chen himself.
• The Lord of Ashen Annihilation City charged at Ye Chen with his crescent-bladed halberd.

The City Lord of Ashen Annihilation attacked Ye Chen with his full strength, but Ye Chen stopped his crescent halberd with two fingers. Even when the city lord and two allies joined forces, they could not move Ye Chen, who prepared to end the fight with a casual wave.

• The City Lord of Ashen Annihilation struck at Ye Chen with his crescent halberd, but Ye Chen caught it between two fingers.
• The city lord unleashed the power of his armor and halberd, shaking the world, yet he still could not force Ye Chen to budge.
• Two others from the City Lord's Mansion joined the attack with Saint Emperor-forged treasures, but their combined assault had no effect.
• Ye Chen said he had no time to play around and waved his hand, sending an invisible force toward all three attackers.

Ye Chen effortlessly defeated the Lord of Ashen Annihilation City and his two companions, destroying their weapons and reducing much of the city to ruins. The three Shangguan Household Clan members died, and Ashen Annihilation City's soldiers knelt to beg Ye Chen for mercy.

• Ye Chen's power shattered the Lord of Ashen Annihilation City's armor and halberd, then blasted him and his two companions through Ashen Annihilation City.
• The city’s generals and soldiers feared the three had died as they saw the vast furrows and rubble they had left behind.
• The Lord of Ashen Annihilation City crawled from the ruins, acknowledged Ye Chen's overwhelming strength, and died; his two companions had already perished.
• Ashen Annihilation City's generals and soldiers knelt before Ye Chen and begged him to spare their lives.
• Ye Chen showed no interest in the kneeling soldiers, while the spectators marveled at the Hundun Saint Emperor's might.

After Ye Chen killed the City Lord's Mansion's three people, the onlookers feared he would slaughter them too, while Cao Jian dreaded punishment for flirting with his disciples. Ye Chen spared the crowd and seized the mansion's entire treasure trove, leaving everyone astonished by its vast wealth.

• Cao Jian knelt in terror, regretting that he had tried to chat up Xie Purou and Youruo, but Ye Chen paid him no attention.
• The crowd gradually believed Ye Chen would spare them, until Xie Purou joked about destroying the city and the world, frightening several people into fainting.
• Youruo said they should take all the City Lord's Mansion's resources, and Ye Chen agreed.
• Ye Chen summoned the mansion's stored treasures, including Divine Source, Immortal Crystals, heavenly materials, and Hundun Crystals, and pocketed them.
• The crowd and Cao Jian stared in shock at the enormous treasure trove.

Ye Chen collected the City Lord's Mansion's vast treasury and opened a spatial gate whose profound Space Principle fluctuations astonished the onlookers. The cultivators crowded beneath it to improve their comprehension, leaving the female cultivators trapped in the crush.

• Cao Jian and a senior member of the Cao Merchant Association marveled at the City Lord's Mansion's wealth, which they said could buy their entire association and more.
• Ye Chen gathered the treasury's treasures so they would not fall into the hands of the Shangguan Household.
• Ye Chen, Xie Purou, and Youruo prepared to leave through a spatial gate that appeared before Ye Chen.
• The people below sensed the gate's profound Space Principle and recognized that its passage could span countless galaxies.
• Cultivators crowded beneath the gate, hoping its fluctuations would help them break through, while the female cultivators found themselves squeezed in the crush.

In the crush around the spatial gate, Fu Shou'er accused the men pressed against her of groping her, and a scrawny cultivator attacked her after recognizing her notorious reputation. The dagger failed to pierce her thick fat, and as Fu Shou'er prepared to retaliate, the surrounding male cultivators turned on her.

• Fu Shou'er berated the male cultivators packed around her and accused them of taking advantage of the crowd.
• The scrawny cultivator behind Fu Shou'er cursed her for insulting men and threatened to kill her.
• The scrawny cultivator drew a decorated dagger and stabbed Fu Shou'er in the lower back.
• Fu Shou'er’s fat stopped the dagger from reaching her kidney, and she activated her cultivation method to fight back.
• The surrounding male cultivators recognized Fu Shou'er and watched her with predatory excitement.

Fu Shou'er’s human disguise fell away, revealing her true form as a White-Haired Demon Boar whose slander had ruined the lives of many cultivators. The male cultivators recognized her and attacked her in a furious mob.

• A man punched Fu Shou'er, denting her head and causing her human skin to peel away.
• Fu Shou'er transformed into a huge, hideous White-Haired Demon Boar.
• A scrawny man identified Fu Shou'er’s clan, and the crowd learned of its reputation for seducing and draining male victims.
• The male cultivators discovered that Fu Shou'er had spread false rumors that ruined the reputations and lives of fairies and men.
• The male cultivators swarmed Fu Shou'er and beat the fat pig to death.

Ye Chen sensed three powerful figures approaching and changed course with Youruo and Xie Purou, while the spatial gate they left behind vanished and ended the crowd’s cultivation insights. The pursuers were revealed as three Hundun Saint Emperors from the Beast God Hall, including the Starry Firmament Sword Emperor and the Poison Emperor, who argued as they raced toward Ye Chen.

• Youruo and Xie Purou mocked Fu Shou'er after seeing the crowd beat her to death, then urged Ye Chen to leave for another world.
• Ye Chen detected three powerful figures in the distant starry expanse and led Youruo and Xie Purou through a spatial gate toward a new destination.
• The spatial gate closed behind them, ending the crowd’s sudden opportunity to gain cultivation insights and prompting many to rush into seclusion.
• The Starry Firmament Sword Emperor, Poison Emperor, and a third Hundun Saint Emperor raced through the starry expanse to hunt Ye Chen.
• The Starry Firmament Sword Emperor disparaged his companions, and the Poison Emperor warned him not to underestimate his poison of Principles.

The Starry Firmament Sword Emperor, Poison Emperor, and Heavenly Prison Devil Master traveled together to hunt Ye Chen, trading insults as they neared his location. The chapter ended with the Poison Emperor confident that their target would soon fall into their hands.

• The chapter recounted how the Poison Emperor had killed two lower-realm Hundun Saint Emperors with his deadly poison and forced a higher-realm one to retreat and spend millennia purging it.
• The Poison Emperor had boasted publicly about that battle, provoking the higher-realm Hundun Saint Emperor to threaten revenge without acting on it.
• The Heavenly Prison Devil Master joined the Poison Emperor in rebuking the Starry Firmament Sword Emperor, revealing that the three had been dispatched by the Beast God Hall Master to hunt Ye Chen.
• The Starry Firmament Sword Emperor resisted attacking his fellow members, despite their insults, and warned them to prove their strength when they arrived.
• The three approached the world where Ye Chen was believed to be, and the Poison Emperor predicted they would capture him.