Recaps

The Li and Wang Household Heads taunted the Shi Household Head over the loss of more than thirty late God Emperor experts, driving him into a furious standoff with the Wang Household Head. The Shi Household Head ultimately restrained himself and waited for the Nirvana Secret Realm to open, while the gathered factions learned of the Shi Household’s devastating losses.

• The Li Household Head mocked the Shi Household Head’s losses and weakened position, provoking his threat of war.
• The Wang Household fleet arrived, and the Wang Household Head publicly feigned sympathy while further humiliating the Shi Household Head.
• The Shi Household Head erupted with peak God Emperor pressure, and the Wang Household Head met it with equal force as the two faced off.
• The Li Household Head secretly hoped the Shi and Wang Households would weaken each other in battle.
• The Shi Household Head restrained his fury, withdrew his pressure, and sat waiting for the Nirvana Secret Realm to open.
• The gathered experts learned that the Shi Household had lost more than thirty late God Emperor stage experts.

Willow God entered the Nirvana Secret Realm and used her insight into the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s body to plot a route toward its vital cores. A crowd of God Emperors followed her despite her warnings, as she reached a deadly stone forest filled with dormant Saint Emperor pressure.

• Willow God concealed her role in slaughtering the Shi Household’s God Emperors while cultivators speculated about the killer’s identity.
• The Saint Emperor pressure around the Nirvana Secret Realm receded, and the three great Lineages led the cultivators inside.
• Willow God deduced that the secret realm formed from the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s body and set a route from her location in its left leg toward its Dantian, heart, and head.
• Willow God raced through the secret realm along a route she could safely endure, and more than a hundred God Emperors followed her despite her warning that it was dangerous for them.
• Willow God reached a stone forest and sensed that its rocks concealed dense, dormant Nirvana Saint Emperor Dao essence and lethal pressure patterns.

Willow God crossed a stone forest whose Saint Emperor pressure annihilated more than a hundred pursuing God Emperors, while she remained unharmed and continued toward the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s former Dantian core. Meanwhile, the Li Household reached the Sea of Nirvana and prepared to enter its waters to cultivate from the remaining Saint Emperor origin power.

• Willow God entered the stone forest, and the jade pendant Ye Chen had given her shielded her from its awakened Saint Emperor pressure.
• More than a hundred God Emperors rushed into the stone forest and were instantly destroyed, bodies and souls alike, by the pressure.
• A dozen trailing experts stopped at the entrance, blamed Willow God despite recalling her warning, and abandoned the idea of pursuing her.
• Willow God raced onward toward the former core region of the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s Dantian.
• The Li Household’s fleet arrived at the Sea of Nirvana, and its Head ordered the warships to land and the clan’s elites to prepare for the trial.

The Li Household sent its chosen members into the Sea of Nirvana to endure the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s power, while its Household Head used the trial to strengthen himself and approach the Saint Emperor realm. Willow God appeared in the sea and headed toward its depths, revealing her contempt for the dead Nirvana Saint Emperor.

• The Li Household members entered the Sea of Nirvana, where many died under the crushing Holy Power and a few endured its torment to temper their bodies and souls.
• The Li Household Head joined the trial, absorbed Saint Emperor origin power, and sensed that the gate to the Saint Emperor realm had begun to open for him.
• Willow God appeared above the sea, parting its waters with her presence and startling the Li Household members.
• The Li Household Head watched Willow God head toward the more dangerous depths and expected the Holy Power to kill her.
• Willow God dismissed the cultivators around her and scorned the Nirvana Saint Emperor for leaving behind the power she intended to use.

Willow God summoned a colossal willow and rooted it in the Sea of Nirvana to draw and refine the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s source power. The Li Household Head watched in terror, unsure whether she was a Saint Emperor or a Peak God Emperor with extraordinary means.

• Willow God drove her cultivation method to its fullest and formed an immense willow phantom behind her.
• The willow’s roots pierced the sea and spread through its depths, anchoring themselves in the Sea of Nirvana.
• Willow God’s roots drew in Saint Emperor source power and life essence, refining the violent Holy Power into a purer stream that flowed into her Dao body.
• The Li Household Head saw her absorb the power effortlessly and feared she might be a Saint Emperor.
• The Li Household Head considered fleeing with his surviving clansmen but doubted his own conclusion because Willow God’s cultivation pressure seemed to match the Peak God Emperor Stage.

Willow God absorbed the Saint Emperor power and vitality throughout the Sea of Nirvana, nourishing her strength and Great Dao of Life while weakening the sea's pressure. The Li Household members realized their pain had eased because the sea's power was being drained, not because they had grown stronger.

• The Li Household Head concluded that Willow God might be borrowing power from a Saint Emperor-grade treasure and watched her cautiously.
• Willow God drew Saint Emperor power and vitality through her roots, causing her ancient willow to grow to five thousand zhang and helping restore her cultivation and Great Dao of Life.
• As Willow God drained the Sea of Nirvana, its Holy Power, annihilating pressure, and Dao resonance weakened, easing the Li Household members' torment.
• The Li Household members initially mistook their relief for progress in their cultivation, then saw the towering willow greedily extracting the sea's essence.
• The Li Household members realized that their pain had diminished because Willow God was draining the sea, not because they had adapted or grown stronger.

The Li Household Head mistook Willow God’s power for a secret method and ordered his fleet to seize it. After her defenses withstood the fleet’s cannon barrage, Willow God charged straight at the Li Household’s formation as it prepared to fire again.

• The Li Household Head convinced himself Willow God was extracting the Sea of Nirvana’s origin power with a secret method and ordered his kin to attack her.
• The Li Household fleet sailed toward Willow God, who struck first with the ancient willow’s strands and tested its defensive barriers.
• The Li Household Head dismissed Willow God as no true Saint Emperor and ordered all five ships to fire their Divine Light Cannons.
• Willow God blocked the combined cannon strike with a wall of willow strands, which shattered after absorbing its power without allowing her to be harmed.
• The Li Household Head ordered a second cannon barrage, but Willow God charged directly at the fleet’s battle formation before it could fire.

Willow God battered the Li Household warships with a palm strike and a storm of willow leaves, overwhelming their defenses despite the Li Household Head’s belief that her power would run out. The ancestral formation finally shattered, leaving the Li Household exposed to Willow God’s attack.

• Willow God absorbed the combined fire of five Divine Light Cannons and struck the Li Household’s defensive barrier with an enormous jade-green palm.
• Willow God unleashed countless sharp willow leaves, forcing the Li Household to hold its formation while the Li Household Head planned to exhaust her and seize her supposed Saint Emperor Secret Method.
• The Li Household’s formation began to crack under Willow God’s relentless bombardment, and the Li Household cultivators panicked as their confidence in its protection collapsed.
• The Li Household Head declared that he would face Willow God at the Peak God Emperor Stage, while Willow God’s willow-leaf assault continued to intensify.
• Willow God’s attacks shattered the Li Household’s defensive formation, and the exposed Li Household members activated their protective treasures.

The Willow God overwhelmed the Li Household Head and his followers, defeating their attacks with her willow powers and Saint Emperor-level Willow Leaf Flying Flower Palm. The Li Household members fell into the Sea of Nirvana’s central core, where its Saint Emperor power tore through their bodies and left their survival in doubt.

• The Li Household Head used an ancient evergreen sword to attack the Willow God, but she broke his sword-ray and forced him to fend off her branches.
• The Li Household Head escaped the branches and struck at the Willow God again, but she dodged and countered with a torrent of willow leaves that he blocked with Eight Thousand Star-Shattering Swords.
• The surviving Li Household members charged the Willow God with their secret techniques, but her Willow Leaf Flying Flower Palm shattered their attacks and grievously wounded them.
• The Willow God’s palm force sent the Li Household members plunging into the Sea of Nirvana’s central core, where its Saint Emperor power began tearing apart their bodies and divine souls.

The Li Household Head watched his clansmen perish in the Sea of Nirvana and launched a frenzied attack on Willow God. After she suppressed his sword technique, he burned his reserves to break through her defenses, leaving his ultimate strike descending toward her.

• Willow God watched the Li Household members sink and die in the Sea of Nirvana.
• The Li Household Head saw his entire force perish, lost himself to rage, and attacked Willow God with his Five Elements Dao-Slaying Sword.
• Willow God used her resilient branches to dismantle his sword assault and steadily overpower him while replenishing her strength from the sea.
• The Li Household Head burned his cultivation reserves, severed Willow God's branches, and condensed his power into a devastating sword strike.
• Willow God caught the strike between her Wood Emperor World-Subduing Seal palms, but the Li Household Head poured in more power until the Sword-Ray broke through and slashed toward her head.

The Willow God effortlessly destroyed the Li Household Head’s strongest attack, then gravely wounded him and revealed her intent to eliminate the Joined Mountains Realm’s three great Lineages. After rejecting his plea for mercy, she resumed her assault, draining his vitality as he struggled to defend himself.

• The Li Household Head’s five-element sword strike shattered against a gale released by the Willow God’s breath.
• The Willow God crossed the distance instantly and struck the Li Household Head’s chest, breaking his ribs and sending him plunging into the Sea of Nirvana.
• The Li Household Head burned his remaining power to escape the sea, then demanded to know who the Willow God was.
• The Willow God said the Li Household would follow the Shi Household and declared that the Shi, Li, and Wang Households would all be destroyed.
• The Li Household Head begged for his life and offered his treasures, but the Willow God refused to relent.
• The Willow God attacked again, and the Li Household Head’s vitality and soul power drained with each clash as he defended himself.

Willow God overwhelmed the Li Household Head in battle while Late God Emperor cultivators watched from five thousand kilometers away and recognized the mysterious woman. As the Li Household Head was driven to the brink, he unleashed the Sky Star-Shattering Sword in a desperate attempt to escape.

• The shock waves from Willow God and the Li Household Head's battle startled a group of Late God Emperor cultivators who were gathering treasures nearby.
• The cultivators recognized the Li Household Head fighting an unfamiliar woman, and one of them remembered seeing Willow God at the secret realm entrance.
• The watchers saw Willow God steadily overpower the Li Household Head, though they doubted she could kill him.
• Willow God suppressed the Li Household Head with her attacks and Dao laws until he was nearly unable to move.
• The Li Household Head used his remaining power to unleash the Sky Star-Shattering Sword, hoping to force Willow God back and escape.

The Li Household Head unleashed his ultimate sword technique and fled, but Willow God effortlessly shattered the attack and pursued him. The exhausted Li Household Head raced to escape, fearing that his death would doom his Lineage.

• The Li Household Head unleashed the Sky Star-Shattering Sword, filling the sky with a lethal river of stars, then fled using the shock waves as cover.
• The adventuring party watching from a distant mountain saw the Li Household Head run and stared in disbelief.
• Willow God calmly blocked the Sword-Rays and destroyed the starry sword domain with the Willow-Brushing Star-Plucking Hand.
• Willow God transformed into a jade-green divine rainbow and pursued the fleeing Li Household Head.
• The Li Household Head pushed his depleted strength to its limit, abandoned his ambitions, and focused only on escaping alive.

The Willow God pursued the fleeing Li Household Head, who blindly entered an ancient forbidden forest and was crushed to death by its Saint Emperor pressure. The adventuring party witnessed his death and realized the Li Household’s collapse could overturn the balance of power in the Joined Mountains Realm.

• The Li Household Head fled the Willow God after she broke his killing sword strike, abandoning the known route through the Sea of Nirvana.
• The Willow God stopped pursuing directly, expecting the dangers ahead to kill the Li Household Head.
• The Li Household Head entered a forbidden ancient forest, where dormant Saint Emperor pressure awakened and annihilated his body, Divine Source, and soul.
• The Willow God returned to the Sea of Nirvana and resumed cultivating beside the growing divine willow.
• The adventuring party witnessed the Li Household Head’s death and predicted that the Shi Household and Wang Household would exploit the Li Household’s weakness.

Willow God refined the last of the Sea of Nirvana’s Saint Emperor power and underwent a tremendous cultivation transformation, unleashing an emerald pillar of light that shook the entire Nirvana Secret Realm. The Wang Household Head and his senior member determined the presence belonged to neither the Shi nor Li Household and was not yet that of a true Saint Emperor, leaving them to suspect a great fortuitous opportunity.

• The adventuring party recognized that survival depended on gathering treasures and rapidly increasing their strength amid the Joined Mountains Realm’s upheaval.
• Willow God drained and refined the Sea of Nirvana, repairing and strengthening her Great Dao as its waters turned into a lifeless black sea.
• Willow God absorbed her enormous willow manifestation and erupted with power that pierced the Nirvana Secret Realm’s barrier and shook the surrounding region.
• Cultivators throughout the secret realm panicked at the earthquake and energy fluctuations, then saw the emerald pillar spanning the realm and the starry sky.
• The Wang Household Head feared that the Shi Household or Li Household had reached the Saint Emperor Realm, but a senior Wang Household member ruled out both and judged the presence short of a true Saint Emperor.
• The Wang Household Head wondered whether the unknown expert had gained a major opportunity, such as a Saint Emperor Weapon left by the Nirvana Saint Emperor.

The Wang Household Head chose to protect his clan’s Heartfire Saint Stone mine rather than pursue the distant phenomenon, while Willow God absorbed the Sea of Nirvana’s power and headed for the Saint Emperor’s heart. She reached the Wang Household’s valley, where the patriarch and his elders confronted her.

• The Wang Household Head rejected the idea of traveling millions of miles to chase the phenomenon, deciding that their Heartfire Saint Stone mine was a safer and more valuable foundation.
• The Wang Household Head refined a Heartfire Saint Stone, strengthening his power with Saint Emperor essence but finding that transforming his God Emperor power remained difficult.
• Willow God finished absorbing the Sea of Nirvana and set off toward the Saint Emperor’s heart, passing through Saint Emperor pressure and danger without slowing.
• Willow God arrived at the Wang Household’s mining valley, startling the patriarch, the elders, and the clansmen at work.
• The Wang Household Head and the senior members gathered their power and pressed their cultivation pressure toward Willow God.

Willow God confronted the Wang Household over its claim to the Heartfire Saint Stone and proved far stronger than its Peak God Emperor experts. After recognizing her as the likely mysterious expert with a Saint Emperor opportunity and artifact, the Wang Household Head halted the fight and offered cooperation.

• Willow God resisted the combined pressure of the Wang Household's Peak God Emperor experts and declared that the valley belonged to her.
• A senior Wang Household member attacked Willow God, but she defeated his strike and left him injured and shaken.
• The Wang Household Head recognized Willow God's emerald presence as the one behind the secret realm's upheaval and feared she possessed a Saint Emperor Saint Artifact.
• The Wang Household Head stopped the battle and proposed that Willow God work with them to mine the Heartfire Saint Stone.
• Several senior Wang Household members echoed the offer, hoping to avoid fighting Willow God and gain her as an ally.

Willow God pretended to accept the Wang Household’s offer to share the Heartfire Saint Stones while planning to eliminate them using a dormant power deep in the mine. As the Wang Household Head led her underground, her question about why the miners avoided Divine Abilities and Method Formulas made his expression turn solemn.

• Willow God assessed the Wang Household’s forces and decided to feign cooperation while preparing to awaken a terrifying power hidden deep in the vein.
• Willow God negotiated for a larger share of the Heartfire Saint Stones, agreeing to thirty percent after the Wang Household Head offered that amount and promised future Dao discussions.
• Willow God gave her surname as Ye and followed the Wang Household Head into the valley mine to inspect its workings.
• Willow God observed the Wang Household members mining with tools and asked why they did not use Divine Abilities or Method Formulas to speed up the work.
• The Wang Household Head’s smile vanished, and he reacted to Willow God’s question with apprehension.

Willow God learned that twenty powerful Heartfire Monsters slept beneath the Wang Household’s mine and secretly planned to exploit a battle between them and the household. The monsters awakened on their own, targeted her, and she fled the mine as Wang Household Head was left stunned.

• Wang Household Head warned Willow God that twenty Peak God Emperor-level Heartfire Monsters lay dormant beneath the mine and could awaken if anyone used Divine Power.
• Willow God concealed her Saint Emperor-level divine soul and secretly planned to awaken the monsters and profit from the ensuing fight.
• All twenty Heartfire Monsters emerged from the magma sea and charged toward Willow God with hatred.
• Willow God realized the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s lingering resentment had awakened the monsters when she arrived.
• Willow God fled through the mine in emerald light, leaving Wang Household Head bewildered before a cataclysmic upheaval struck.

Willow God fled from twenty awakened Heartfire Monsters, whose ancient hatred for her drew them into a rampage against the Wang Household. As she led the monsters toward the household’s leaders and clansmen, the Heartfire overwhelmed their defenses and began spreading through the crowd.

• The Heartfire Monsters awakened beneath the mine, forcing the Wang Household clansmen to flee as the mine and basin shook apart.
• Twenty Heartfire Monsters emerged and recognized Willow God as the enemy tied to the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s death.
• Willow God drew the monsters toward the Wang Household leaders, and the monsters split their attacks between her and the leaders.
• Willow God led eight pursuing monsters toward the Wang Household clansmen, whose formation collapsed in panic.
• The eight monsters unleashed Heartfire that broke through the clansmen’s defenses and spread through the crowd, prompting desperate screams.

Willow God sabotaged the Wang Household’s coordinated defense against eight Heartfire Monsters, turning their initial advantage into a massacre. The Wang Household regrouped into eight combat teams and prepared to attack the monsters directly.

• The Wang Household formed defensive lines and pinned the eight Heartfire Monsters beneath their numbers.
• Willow God struck the Wang Household from within, killing more than a dozen cultivators and breaking their formation.
• A Heartfire Monster smashed through the weakened defense and slaughtered Wang Household members with its flames and claws.
• The other Heartfire Monsters also broke through the separate formations, inflicting heavy casualties across the battlefield.
• The Wang Household’s senior experts rallied their scattered clansmen and divided them into eight teams to attack the monsters.

The Wang Household’s formations suppressed all eight Heartfire Monsters on the battlefield below, but the Wang Household Head was trapped by three Peak God Emperor beasts above. He badly wounded one monster at the cost of severe injuries, and the monster began drawing power from the valley’s Heartfire Saint Stones to heal.

• A Late God Emperor ancestor led a thousand Wang Household clansmen in the Celestial Stars Grand Formation, suppressing one Heartfire Monster as the other teams likewise restrained their targets.
• Three Peak God Emperor Heartfire Monsters cornered the Wang Household Head after he blocked their fire attack and lost his chance to flee.
• The Wang Household Head activated his armor and spear, sacrificed much of his defense, and pierced one monster, blasting apart more than half its body.
• A third monster tore and dented the Wang Household Head’s armor, then smashed him through a cliff and left him severely injured.
• The wounded Heartfire Monster began healing as tens of thousands of Heartfire Saint Stones released crimson source flames into its body.

The Wang Household Head fought three peak Heartfire Monsters and learned that they could restore themselves by absorbing heartfire saint stones, making a prolonged battle dangerous for him. He killed one monster after a costly struggle, but its remains began absorbing the stones while the two survivors pressed their attack.

• The Wang Household Head realized the Heartfire Monsters could heal and replenish themselves from heartfire saint stones, while his own recovery consumed his reserves.
• He fought off the three monsters with spear techniques and wounded one badly, then pursued it as it tried to retreat.
• He used a growing mountain treasure to delay the other two monsters and plunged his spear through the wounded monster, apparently destroying it.
• The Wang Household Head resumed fighting the two remaining monsters as the destroyed monster’s remains crawled onto heartfire saint stones and began absorbing their power.
• With his Divine Power depleted, the Wang Household Head fought while retreating and suffered further injuries from the monsters’ pincer attack.

Willow God disrupted the Wang Household’s formations, killed a middle-aged Wang Household member, and destroyed the formation suppressing a Heartfire Monster. She blended into the injured crowd as the monster regained its strength and leaped into the Wang Household members.

• Two senior members of the Wang Household struggled against three Heartfire Monsters each while the ground formations weakened eight others.
• Willow God sent ten willow branches at a Wang Household formation, and a middle-aged man left it to confront her.
• Willow God shattered the man’s blood-red blade strike, bound him with willow branches, and drained his vitality until he died.
• Willow God attacked the formation and broke it, leaving more than a thousand Wang Household members injured and freeing the Heartfire Monster.
• Willow God moved into the crowd as the Heartfire Monster roared, sensed her presence, and leaped down toward the Wang Household members.

Willow God released the Heartfire Monsters, stole the Wang Household’s Heartfire Saint Stones, and hid underground to absorb them while the monsters ravaged the household. The battle continued to turn against the Wang Household, and the Wang Household Head watched a senior member die in agony.

• Willow God and the first Heartfire Monster attacked the Wang Household members, whose broken ranks left them unable to defend themselves effectively.
• Willow God destroyed the remaining formations and freed the other Heartfire Monsters, worsening the chaos across the battlefield.
• Willow God collected the Heartfire Saint Stones from the mine and concealed herself underground with Ye Chen’s jade pendant.
• Willow God began absorbing and refining the stolen stones while the Heartfire Monsters fought the Wang Household without their usual source of replenishment.
• Three Heartfire Monsters killed a Wang Household senior with their flames as the Wang Household Head watched in fury.