Recaps

Little Rou tested her strength against the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor, but her lightning attacks could not harm him. After exhausting herself, she faced the Saint Emperor as he began his turn to attack.

• Little Rou’s opening lightning strike failed to move the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor, who praised her unusual lightning talent and accepted her challenge.
• Little Rou attacked from behind with Lightning Cutter, but the Saint Emperor’s icy barrier dissolved the strike without harming him.
• Little Rou unleashed more than a thousand Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning attacks and a finishing punch, yet the Saint Emperor remained unmoved.
• Exhausted, Little Rou withdrew as the Saint Emperor approached and warned that it was his turn to attack.
• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor stamped the ground, freezing it and spreading cracks and ice outward.

Little Rou fought the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor, who tested her strength and easily outmatched her despite her powerful Nine Tribulations Divine Lightning. After he shattered her strongest lightning-hammer strike with one finger, he told her to use her Saint Emperor Weapon if she wanted to truly fight him.

• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor attacked Little Rou with a crushing stomp, and she dodged before forming a lightning hammer that carried a trace of Saint Emperor pressure.
• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor sent spatially manipulated ice daggers at Little Rou; she blocked most with lightning but suffered numerous wounds from those that pierced through.
• Little Rou struck back with a fierce barrage of red lightning, but the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor casually dispersed it with his Cold Qi and said she could not hurt him.
• Little Rou unleashed her full strength in a hammer strike that shattered the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor's ice wall, but he stopped and disintegrated the hammer with one finger.
• Little Rou retreated in shock, and the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor told her to use her Saint Emperor Weapon if she wanted to fight him seriously.

Little Rou awakened the Mysterious Firmament Thunder-Wielding Hammer and fought the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor in a fierce, nearly even battle. On another battlefield, Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl against the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor, who caught the pearl after she enlarged it and sent it crashing toward him.

• Little Rou summoned the Mysterious Firmament Thunder-Wielding Hammer and unleashed its Saint Emperor pressure, prompting the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor to take her seriously.
• Little Rou shattered the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor’s ice daggers, then struck him from above with Ten Thousand Jun Thunderstorm.
• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor met Little Rou’s hammer with an ice fist and blasted her back, but she returned to fight him in a continuing deadlock.
• Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl to disperse the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor’s corpse Qi and withstand his corrosive attack with a water curtain.
• Youruo enlarged the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl and hurled it at the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor, who wrapped his elongated fingers around it and clenched it in his palm.

Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl to battle the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor, pushing him back with powerful water attacks. When he charged at her, she trapped him inside Mirror Flower, Water Moon, where he faced the pearl’s crushing Saint Emperor power.

• The Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor tried to seize the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl, but Youruo poured Immortal Power into it and blasted his palm with deep-blue water.
• Youruo drove him into a wall with a concentrated water column, but he dismissed the attack and summoned two vicious ghosts.
• Youruo formed two flood-dragon sea beasts to fight the ghosts while the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor launched a punch at her.
• Youruo activated Mirror Flower, Water Moon, and the Saint Emperor sank into its water mirror and vanished into a deep-blue space.
• The trapped Saint Emperor felt the space’s crushing power compress his corpse Qi and began examining his surroundings.

Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl to fight the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor, but he broke through her Mirror Flower, Water Moon and forced her into a fierce battle. As Ye Chen and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor watched Youruo and Little Rou contend with Saint Emperors, Ye Chen insisted that they still had much to improve and should strengthen themselves before advancing.

• Youruo repeatedly folded the Mirror Flower, Water Moon to crush the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor, but he shattered the space and attacked her directly.
• Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl to block the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor's blows and counter with powerful waves.
• Ye Chen and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor watched Little Rou fight the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor and Youruo battle the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor.
• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor praised the girls for using Saint Emperor Weapons to contend with Saint Emperors, but Ye Chen said their performance still left much to be desired.
• Ye Chen explained that he wanted the girls to hone their current realms rather than rush to become Saint Emperors, even if they were to fight without relying on Saint Emperor Weapons.

Ye Chen demanded that Little Rou and Youruo reach First Heaven Saint Emperor combat strength without outside help, while the Nether Blood Saint Emperor and Ji Ren were awed by his standards. On the battlefield, Youruo unleashed the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl’s full power and summoned a gigantic Kun Fish, prompting the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor to transform and charge at it.

• Ye Chen set the standard that Little Rou and Youruo had to match a First Heaven Saint Emperor through their own strength, and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor and Ji Ren were shocked but accepted his authority.
• Little Rou and Youruo struggled against their opponents and decided to abandon defense for a desperate finishing strike.
• Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl to flood the battlefield and summon a colossal Kun Fish that attacked the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor.
• The Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor transformed into a thousand-zhang giant with black bone wings and released his full power.
• The Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor beat his wings, split the ocean, and charged toward the Kun Fish as it unleashed a torrent of water.

Youruo and Little Rou fought their respective Devil Race Saint Emperors as the battle across both fields reached its climax. Youruo’s Kun Beast recovered from a barrage of poisoned bone spikes, but the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor struck it with a sharp wing slash, leaving the ocean battle unresolved.

• Youruo’s clash with the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor sent a shockwave across the battlefield, forcing Little Rou and the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor to pause their fight.
• Little Rou renewed her attack, and she and the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor resumed their fierce battle with lightning and ice.
• The Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor battered Youruo’s Kun Beast with bone claws and poisoned spikes, leaving its body riddled with wounds.
• Youruo’s Kun Beast replenished itself with seawater and launched a violent counterattack that drove the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor into the ocean.
• The Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor evaded the Kun Beast’s assault and slashed its body with his bone wings.

Youruo used the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl to split the Kun Beast, but the backlash left her gravely wounded and unable to continue fighting the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor. She accepted her defeat as a chance to learn and grow, while Little Rou’s battle against the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor was still nearing its end.

• Youruo’s attack cleaved the Kun Beast in two, and its seawater body dissipated after its power was exhausted.
• The Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl’s backlash and Youruo’s depleted strength left her unable to summon its power again, and she collapsed after coughing up blood.
• The Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor praised Youruo’s strength and descended without releasing his Saint Emperor pressure.
• Youruo accepted her defeat, recognizing that the battle had taught her about her abilities, the Saint Emperor’s power, and how to control the Blue Abyss Star Soul Pearl.
• A thousand li away, Little Rou’s fierce battle against the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor continued toward its end.

Little Rou fought the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor with her Mysterious Firmament Thunder-Wielding Hammer, pushing her strength and endurance to their limits. The Saint Emperor answered her giant lightning strike with Ice Tribulation Space Rend, and their clash left her hammer damaged and her arms numb.

• Youruo and the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor sensed Little Rou's growing divine lightning power and watched her battle.
• Little Rou endured her rapidly draining Immortal Power and pain as she poured her remaining strength and essence blood into her hammer.
• Little Rou enlarged the Mysterious Firmament Thunder-Wielding Hammer to more than ten thousand zhang and brought it crashing down on the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor.
• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor used Ice Tribulation Space Rend to summon a massive blade of ice and snow and strike the hammer.
• The ice blade cleaved away much of the hammer's lightning and checked its fall, sending icy power through the handle and numbing Little Rou's arms.

Little Rou fought the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor with everything she had but could not force him to use his Saint Emperor Weapon, then Ye Chen recalled the fighters to the palace. There, Youruo and Little Rou received Ye Chen’s praise while the two Saint Emperors realized he was their master.

• Little Rou’s lightning hammer broke through the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor’s ice blades, but their final clash left her severely injured and the hammer depleted.
• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor praised Little Rou’s strength and explained that her attacks had not been enough to make him use his Saint Emperor Weapon.
• Little Rou recognized the gap between them and resolved to grow strong enough to make a Saint Emperor fight at full strength.
• Ye Chen used his Space Principle to bring Youruo, Little Rou, and both Saint Emperors from the battlefield to the palace.
• Youruo and Little Rou told Ye Chen they had nearly defeated their opponents, and he praised their performance while correcting their assessment.
• The Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor and the Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor realized Ye Chen, not the Nether Blood Saint Emperor, was the girls’ master, while the Nether Blood Saint Emperor lamented that they were not his disciples.

Ye Chen declined the Nether Blood Saint Emperor’s invitation to stay and decided to take Little Rou and Youruo to the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom in search of a powerful thunder cultivator. The chapter ended with Nether Blood offering the girls resources and Ye Chen urging them to ask for what they wanted.

• The Nether Blood Saint Emperor rewarded the Ice Devil Race Saint Emperor and Corpse Devil Race Saint Emperor with tokens to enter his cultivation secret realm, crediting Ye Chen for securing the opportunity.
• Nether Blood invited Ye Chen, Little Rou, and Youruo to remain in the Nether Blood Divine Kingdom, but Ye Chen said they would leave soon.
• Ye Chen asked about newly risen Saint Emperors and experts of the Great Dao of Thunder, and Nether Blood identified the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom as the place to find them.
• Ye Chen chose the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom as their next destination, and Nether Blood gave him a jade slip containing its coordinates and intelligence.
• Nether Blood offered Little Rou and Youruo cultivation resources; they declined to protect Ye Chen’s and Kunlun Holy Land’s dignity, but Ye Chen told them to ask for what they wanted.

Ye Chen let Little Rou and Youruo collect rare materials from the Nether Blood Saint Emperor before taking them toward the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom. He revealed that he was seeking Willow God, who had disappeared after her memories returned upon ascending to the Heavenly Divine Realm.

• Little Rou and Youruo asked to gather materials for their future lifebound Saint Emperor Artifacts, and the Nether Blood Saint Emperor gave them a vast hoard from his treasury.
• Little Rou and Youruo divided and stored the materials, then Ye Chen thanked the Nether Blood Saint Emperor and departed with them.
• As the three traveled through the void toward the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom, Little Rou and Youruo asked why Ye Chen was going there.
• Ye Chen said he wanted to find someone, and Youruo guessed that he meant Willow God.
• Ye Chen recalled that Willow God had left the Kunlun Holy Land alone after ascending and that her lost memories had returned, after which no one had heard from her.

Ye Chen set out with Youruo and Little Rou toward the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom to search for Willow God, confident that his protective jade pendant would keep her alive. In the Joined Mountains Realm, Willow God fled a powerful force sent after her while planning to build her strength and take revenge on the Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor and her other enemies.

• Ye Chen reassured Youruo and Little Rou that the jade pendant he had given Willow God could protect her from even a Saint Emperor-level attack.
• Ye Chen, Youruo, and Little Rou headed toward the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom to investigate its strength while continuing their search for Willow God.
• Willow God concealed herself in the Joined Mountains Realm, part of the domain ruled by the Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor, one of the enemies who had betrayed her.
• Willow God vowed to grow stronger in secret and eventually destroy the Thunder Abyss Divine Kingdom to avenge her lineage.
• Willow God fled through a demon-infested forest as thirty late God Emperor powerhouses, led by two peak God Emperors, pursued her.
• One of the pursuing peak God Emperors angrily complained that they had chased Willow God for months without catching her.

Willow God lured thirty Shi Household God Emperor experts through the Joined Mountains Realm’s primeval mountains toward a High Antiquity killing formation. She feigned exhaustion and let them surround her, while Shi Rong dismissed Shi Yi’s warnings and prepared to capture her.

• The Shi Household’s pursuers chased Willow God for three days and nights, enraged over her earlier killings and repeated escapes.
• Shi Rong insisted their numbers and strength would overcome any scheme, while Shi Yi warned him to be cautious.
• Willow God calculated that the pursuers’ anger made them easy to lure into the killing formation she had prepared.
• After reaching the ambush area, Willow God feigned injury and slowed down so the thirty Shi Household experts could catch her.
• Shi Rong and Shi Yi blocked Willow God’s path as the other experts surrounded her, and Shi Rong demanded to know why she had stopped running.
• Shi Yi suspected a trap, but Shi Rong brushed off his warning and asserted that Willow God could not threaten their overwhelming advantage.

Willow God feigned weakness under the pressure of the Shi Household’s experts, then revealed her peak God Emperor cultivation and countered their attempt to bind her. As she held off their chains with a phantom willow, she activated two jade slips containing powerful formations.

• Shi Rong questioned Willow God while thirty Shi Household experts suppressed her with their combined pressure.
• Willow God pretended to be near collapse and provoked the Shi Household into attacking, causing its experts to lower their guard.
• Shi Rong ordered the experts to bind Willow God with Divine Power chains, but she revealed that she was a peak God Emperor.
• Shi Rong and Shi Yi rallied the remaining Shi Household experts to press their attack against Willow God.
• Willow God summoned a towering phantom willow that stopped the chains, then poured her power into two formation jade slips.

Willow God revealed that she had lured the Shi Household’s thirty experts into two overlapping High Antiquity killing formations, one that suppressed their strength and another that attacked them with golden swords. Shi Rong resisted the suppression with his armor and launched a powerful strike, but Willow God’s formation shattered it and sent its swords after him.

• Willow God trapped the Shi Household experts and herself beneath a golden formation curtain, while Shi Rong and Shi Yi assumed she planned to escape.
• Willow God revealed the Golden Sword Bone-Eroding Formation and the Prison-Suppressing Heaven-Severing Formation, explaining that she intended to kill all thirty pursuers.
• The Prison-Suppressing Heaven-Severing Formation weakened the Shi Household experts, and Shi Rong’s attack on Willow God collapsed under its pressure.
• Shi Rong’s black armor resisted much of the suppression, allowing him to unleash a massive black palm strike at Willow God.
• Willow God summoned thousands of golden swords that destroyed Shi Rong’s palm strike and surged toward him.

Willow God used the Prison-Suppressing Heaven-Severing Formation and Golden Sword Bone-Eroding Formation to overwhelm the Shi Household experts, leaving many dead or severely wounded. The survivors united to form a protective barrier, but Willow God began gathering power for another assault.

• Shi Rong narrowly dodged the golden swords, but several struck his armor and weakened its dark gleam.
• Willow God intensified both formations, and the golden swords shattered the experts’ defenses and wounded them with bone-eroding power.
• A Shi Household expert urged the survivors not to give up, but another pointed out that they might not live long enough to defeat Willow God.
• A less-wounded Shi Household expert ordered everyone to unite, and the survivors formed a circle and pooled their Divine Power into a protective barrier.
• Willow God looked down at the gathered experts and activated the Golden Sword Bone-Eroding Formation again, drawing in power for another attack.

Shi Rong and Shi Yi attacked Willow God together after the Golden Sword Bone-Eroding Formation weakened around them, but she countered their strikes with golden swords and her willow branches. Shi Yi was bound by the branches and unleashed a spear technique to break free.

• The Shi Household experts held a shared protective barrier against the golden swords while Shi Rong and Shi Yi noticed that the formation's attacks on them had weakened.
• Shi Yi and Shi Rong joined forces and launched a spear thrust and a saber strike at Willow God, who blocked both attacks with torrents of golden swords.
• Willow God sent her willow branches after the two Peak God Emperors; Shi Rong chopped through his attackers while Shi Yi's spear was bound and his movements restricted.
• Shi Yi gripped his spear with both hands and used his Azure Lotus Blooms technique to spin its tip and form a deadly azure lotus.

Shi Yi and Shi Rong fought Willow God at close range, but she used the Golden Sword Bone-Eroding Formation, the Prison-Suppressing Heaven-Severing Formation, and her willow phantom to keep them under relentless attack. Shi Yi broke through with a spear thrust, only for it to clang harmlessly against divine armor that had appeared over Willow God's body.

• Shi Rong broke through the willow branches and attacked Willow God's phantom with his Eight Desolations Slash, drawing much of the formation's power away from Shi Yi.
• Shi Yi and Shi Rong closed in on Willow God, who countered with waves of golden swords and emerald willow branches, trapping both men in a desperate fight.
• Shi Yi used Wild Wind Sweeps the Earth to redirect the golden sword tide toward Willow God, then rushed through the willow branches to attack her at close range.
• Shi Yi unleashed Thunder's Wrath and thrust his spear at Willow God's lower abdomen, believing he had landed a decisive blow.
• Willow God's newly appeared emerald divine armor stopped Shi Yi's spear, leaving him stunned by its impenetrable defense.

Willow God used her emerald divine armor to withstand Shi Yi’s surprise attack, then captured him with willow branches. Shi Rong’s full-power counterattack failed against Willow God’s formations, leaving both Shi Household champions imprisoned and the remaining survivors in despair.

• Willow God’s divine armor blocked Shi Yi’s strongest surprise attack, and she dismissed his attacks as too weak to harm her.
• Willow God bound Shi Yi with countless emerald willow branches and sealed him inside a divine cocoon.
• Shi Rong unleashed his Black Light Dark Annihilation Slash, briefly breaking through the formations’ suppression before their attacks overwhelmed him.
• The golden swords shattered Shi Rong’s armor, and Willow God’s branches bound and captured him.
• The Shi Household survivors watched Shi Yi and Shi Rong fall, lost their hope of escaping, and despaired as the formations continued to trap them.

Willow God rejected the Shi Household experts’ pleas for mercy and declared that she would destroy their entire Lineage as part of her long-term vengeance. She attacked the trapped experts with countless willow branches, leaving them desperately defending themselves and hoping for reinforcements.

• A veteran Shi Household expert asked Willow God why she pursued their destruction, and she mocked their sudden concern for grievances.
• The Shi Household experts offered to negotiate with their Lineage, but Willow God said she wanted to destroy it completely.
• Willow God explained that the Shi Household was the first force she intended to uproot on her path of vengeance.
• The Shi Household experts claimed they could secure her safety, but Willow God refused to spare them and announced their deaths.
• Willow God sent countless emerald willow branches crashing into the experts’ protective divine light as they fought to withstand the assault.

Willow God defeats the Shi Household experts, captures them alive, and stores them in a secret realm before retreating to a secluded valley. There, she absorbs their life essence to replenish her damaged origin and strengthen her Great Dao of Life, but realizes she remains far from reaching the Hundun Saint Emperor Realm.

• Willow God shatters the Shi Household experts’ protective divine light and overwhelms them with her two formations.
• Willow God binds the injured Shi Household experts in emerald cocoons and stores them in a secret realm.
• Willow God collapses the formations, leaves the devastated battlefield, and conceals herself in a secluded valley.
• Willow God draws life essence from the captured experts to nourish her origin and Dao foundation.
• Willow God manifests her ancient willow true form and senses that she remains far from breaking through to the Hundun Saint Emperor Realm.

Willow God absorbed the last of the Shi Household experts’ vital essence, while the Shi Household discovered that thirty God Emperors had died and gathered to identify the culprit. Its leaders feared the attacker might be a Saint Emperor, then tried to convince themselves that such a powerful figure would not target them.

• Willow God absorbed the remaining vital essence, leaving more than a dozen drained corpses in the secluded valley.
• Thirty of the Shi Household’s God Emperor soul lamps went out, prompting the Shi patriarch and senior members to erupt in fury.
• The Shi Household’s leaders vowed to find and punish the culprit, fearing the loss would undermine their standing before a secret realm trial in three months.
• A bearded senior member suspected the other two supreme powers, but the Shi patriarch argued that an enemy from beyond the Joined Mountains Realm was more likely.
• A senior member raised the possibility that a Saint Emperor had attacked them, terrifying the council.
• The Shi Household’s senior members reassured themselves that a Saint Emperor would have destroyed their entire lineage rather than leave them alive to debate the attack.

The Shi Household investigated the slaughter of its thirty-member search squad, then shifted its focus to preparing for the Nirvana Secret Realm trial. As the realm opened, Shi, Li, and Wang forces and cultivators from across the Joined Mountains Realm departed for the secret realm, while Willow God remained hidden among them.

• The Shi Household Head ordered coordinated search squads to investigate the hidden enemies without engaging them alone, then directed the clan to prepare for the Nirvana Secret Realm opening in three months.
• Willow God concealed her appearance and presence after absorbing the life essence and Divine Power of the thirty God Emperors she had killed.
• The Shi Household sent its elite disciples aboard five ancient warships toward the Nirvana Secret Realm as the opening day arrived.
• The Li and Wang Households mobilized their own elites, and sects, factions, and rogue cultivators across the Joined Mountains Realm also set out.
• Cultivators broke through the Joined Mountains Realm's world barrier and headed into the starry expanse, where the Nirvana Secret Realm awaited.

Willow God traveled in disguise to the Nirvana Secret Realm, a vast world formed from the remains of the Saint Emperor who once hunted her. She concealed her power and waited for a chance to absorb his life essence, while the gathered cultivators and the three great households faced the realm’s residual Saint Emperor pressure.

• Willow God disguised herself and recalled how she had grievously wounded the Nirvana Saint Emperor when he joined others in hunting her.
• Cultivators reached the immense Nirvana Secret Realm, and a Middle God Emperor Stage expert retreated after the realm’s residual pressure nearly crushed him.
• Willow God chose not to force her way through the barrier, planning instead to conceal herself and absorb the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s life essence Qi.
• Willow God spotted the Shi Household, Li Household, and Wang Household warships gathered near the realm.
• The head of the Shi Household gazed at the secret realm and dreamed of claiming its core opportunity to become a Saint Emperor.