Recaps

The Wang Household Head discovered that the Heartfire Monsters were healing far more slowly because Willow God had apparently taken all the heartfire saint stones. With their power source gone, the surviving Wang Household clansmen fought back, though the battle had already killed or wounded half their forces.

• The Wang Household Head wounded a Heartfire Monster and noticed its recovery had slowed, then risked his life to badly injure it while suffering a grave wound himself.
• The Wang Household Head saw that the heartfire saint stones had vanished and concluded that Willow God had taken them, leaving the Heartfire Monsters unable to replenish their power.
• The Wang Household Head swallowed medicinal pills and returned to battle as the Wang Household's casualties mounted and its surviving fighters gained ground against the weakened monsters.
• More than a hundred Wang Household clansmen attacked a Heartfire Monster, gradually ravaging it with repeated strikes until a clansman wielding two battle-axes cleaved through its body.

The Wang Household clansmen discovered that the Heartfire Monsters could be killed after Willow God drained the heartfire saint stone that fueled their recovery, and they continued fighting at terrible cost. Hidden nearby, Willow God watched as a wounded Wang Household higher-up faced two monsters and chose to sacrifice himself to take one down.

• A twin-axe Wang Household clansman noticed a Heartfire Monster was no longer recovering, and he and the others hacked it apart until its final flame vanished.
• The clansmen celebrated their victory, then rushed to reinforce the other battlefields as the fighting continued.
• Willow God finished refining most of the heartfire saint stone, judged that she was near the Saint Emperor realm, and chose to strengthen her foundation before breaking through.
• Willow God emerged from seclusion and secretly watched the battle, noting that ten Heartfire Monsters had died and fewer than three thousand Wang Household clansmen remained able to fight.
• A wounded Wang Household higher-up, after killing one of the three Heartfire Monsters he faced, embraced one of the two remaining monsters and refused to let go despite its heat scorching him.

The Wang Household defeated all twenty Heartfire Monsters at the cost of nearly its entire force, but the Wang Household Head discovered that all the heartfire saint stone had vanished. He ordered the survivors to leave, suspecting a trap, and confirmed that neither he nor their clansmen had collected the ore.

• A Wang Household elder self-destructed while holding a Heartfire Monster, killing it and gravely wounding another nearby.
• The Wang Household Head and surviving clansmen killed the remaining Heartfire Monsters, leaving fewer than a thousand survivors from a force of more than ten thousand.
• The Wang Household Head rallied the grieving survivors and warned that their weakened Lineage might face attacks from the Shi Household and the Li Household.
• Finding no heartfire ore in the collapsed mine, the Wang Household Head ordered everyone to leave immediately.
• The clansmen asked who had taken the heartfire saint stone, and the Wang Household Head said that he and none of their people had collected it.

Willow God confronted the wounded Wang Household remnants after they tried to flee, then overwhelmed them and absorbed their strength and vitality. After draining the last of them, she flew off in another direction.

• Wang Household Head led the battered survivors toward the exit, fearing Willow God would attack them.
• Willow God appeared before the Wang Household, and Wang Household Head pleaded for her to let them live.
• Willow God told them to end their own lives; when they refused and threatened to fight, she unleashed her power and forced many to their knees.
• Willow God defeated Wang Household Head and the other surviving peak God Emperor, then bound dozens of Wang Household members who tried to self-destruct.
• Willow God ensnared the remaining Wang Household survivors in her branches and absorbed their power and vitality until they became dried corpses.
• Willow God discarded the corpses and flew swiftly in a certain direction.

Willow God headed toward Nirvana Saint Emperor’s head to absorb the power remaining in his divine soul, while the Shi Household cultivated at Saint Head Peak and its head entered the Saint Soul Space. The Shi Household Head pursued his plan to transform his divine soul and eventually become a Saint Emperor, though the space could drive its occupants mad.

• Willow God left the site of the Wang Household’s deaths and made her way toward Nirvana Saint Emperor’s head, hoping to absorb his remaining power and erase his lingering consciousness.
• The Shi Household gathered at Saint Head Peak to absorb divine soul power and Dao law fragments released from the Saint Soul Space.
• The Shi Household Head drifted into the cave with the retreating divine soul power, avoiding the backlash that could result from forcing his way inside.
• The Shi Household Head entered the Saint Soul Space with several senior figures and reflected on his plan to use its power to transform his divine soul and surpass the Li Household and Wang Household.
• The Shi Household Head and the senior figures began cultivating inside the space, whose power could strengthen their souls but also disrupt their minds and drive them mad.

The Shi Household Head cultivated the Saint Emperor True Form Visualization Method in the Saint Soul Space and successfully condensed a wisp of Saint Emperor-level soul power. His breakthrough proved the Shi Household’s cultivation path worked and left him confident he could defeat either the Li Household or Wang Household head in a one-on-one fight.

• The Shi Household Head and four senior members cultivated in the Saint Soul Space, absorbing its grayish-white soul power through the visualization method.
• Several senior members began losing their reason; one stopped in time, while another went mad and vanished into the mist after wandering away.
• The senior members stopped cultivating and watched over the Shi Household Head as he continued without showing signs of madness.
• The Shi Household Head’s soul produced a golden thread of Saint Emperor-level power, and he opened his eyes as its pressure overwhelmed the nearby senior members.
• The Shi Household Head confirmed his breakthrough and demonstrated the golden soul power as a needle, then judged that he had at least a ninety-percent chance of winning a one-on-one fight against either rival household head.

The Shi Household Head revealed that he had condensed a trace of Saint Emperor divine soul, while his subordinates debated how to handle the Wang and Li Households. At Saint Soul Peak, Willow God secretly attacked the Shi Household members as they cultivated, triggering a wave of madness that left the survivors overwhelmed.

• The Shi Household Head warned his excited subordinates not to move against the Wang and Li Households until they knew whether those leaders had also advanced toward the Saint Emperor level.
• The Shi Household Head sent the Lineage higher-ups back to cultivation and resolved to transform the rest of his divine soul into Saint Emperor divine soul.
• Willow God arrived at Saint Soul Peak, concealed herself near the cave, and observed the Shi Household experts cultivating with the Nirvana Saint Emperor's residual divine soul power.
• Willow God recognized that the residual consciousness could drive the cultivators mad and secretly used a divine soul attack technique against them.
• Most of the Shi Household cultivators fell into agony, and many became uncontrollably violent despite their clearheaded companions' attempts to wake and restrain them.

Willow God secretly drove most of the Shi Household’s Lineage members into madness while they cultivated at Saint Soul Peak. The Shi Household Head suspected her involvement and used the Soul-Cleansing Mantra to begin calming the afflicted, though Willow God remained hidden nearby.

• Willow God exploited the Shi Household members’ unguarded cultivation to trigger mass Qi Deviation, plunging the clearing into chaos.
• The Shi Household Head and the senior members emerged from the Saint Soul Space and found the Lineage fighting and attacking one another.
• A lucid Lineage member told the Shi Household Head that the afflicted had suddenly fallen into Qi Deviation and could not be awakened.
• The Shi Household Head ruled out the Wang and Li Households and suspected the mysterious woman his Lineage had hunted, while Willow God listened unseen.
• The Shi Household Head cast the Soul-Cleansing Mantra with his Saint Emperor divine soul, briefly calming several crazed Lineage members.

The Shi Household Head used the Soul-Cleansing Mantra to awaken several clansmen, but the effort depleted his divine soul and left the Shi Household in chaos. Willow God seized the chance to capture him and revealed that she had already wiped out the Li Household's and Wang Household's parties, leaving the Shi Household for last.

• The Shi Household Head condensed a sliver of Saint Emperor divine soul and used the Soul-Cleansing Mantra, then collapsed in agony from overuse.
• The Shi Household higher-ups recited the mantra to calm a few clansmen, but the Shi Household remained in disarray as crazed members fought one another.
• Willow God ambushed the Shi Household higher-ups with willow branches and bound the weakened Shi Household Head, draining his power and vitality.
• The Shi Household Head recognized Willow God and demanded to know why she was opposing his household.
• Willow God told the Shi Household Head that she was targeting all three great Lineages and had already wiped out the Li Household's and Wang Household's parties.

Willow God told the Shi Household Head that she had destroyed the Wang Household and Li Household parties, then revealed her revenge stemmed from the destruction of her divine kingdom. He realized she had once been a Peak Saint Emperor, but regained hope when his Saint Emperor divine soul power recovered.

• The Shi Household Head disbelieved Willow God's claim that she had wiped out the Wang Household and Li Household parties, then pleaded with her and offered the three Lineages' resources in exchange for his life.
• Willow God rejected his offers and declared that she wanted only to destroy him because his highest master had helped destroy her divine kingdom and kill its people.
• The Shi Household Head realized Willow God had once possessed a divine kingdom and concluded she must have been a Peak Saint Emperor.
• The Shi Household Head's Saint Emperor divine soul power recovered, and he decided he might be able to escape or fight back against Willow God.

The Shi Household Head unleashed his Saint Emperor-level soul power against Willow God, but she overwhelmed him with the power of a former Peak Saint Emperor. His soul attack devastated the Shi Household’s remaining fighters, and he died as Willow God drained his last strength and vitality.

• The Shi Household Head formed his Saint Emperor-level soul power into a golden needle and fired it at Willow God.
• Willow God countered with a storm of emerald willow leaves, and the clash severely damaged the souls of the Shi Household’s fighters.
• Willow God’s soul power shattered the Shi Household Head’s golden needle and grievously injured his soul.
• The Shi Household Head realized Willow God had truly been a Peak Saint Emperor and fell into despair.
• Willow God drained the Shi Household Head’s remaining strength and vitality, leaving him a lifeless corpse.

The Shi Household Head was killed by Willow God as his clansmen struggled against their deranged kin. Deep inside Saint Soul Mountain, the Nirvana Saint Emperor's remaining soul power gathered into a figure and unleashed Saint Emperor pressure across the secret realm, leaving everyone pinned to the ground and fearing certain death.

• A lucid Shi Household higher-up saw Willow God kill the Shi Household Head and alerted the other sane clansmen.
• The Shi Household clansmen realized their strongest member was dead and desperately sought a way to escape and warn their Lineage.
• Saint Soul Mountain began shaking violently, and Willow God sensed the cause within the cave.
• The Nirvana Saint Emperor's remaining soul power condensed into a towering figure inside the Saint Soul Space.
• The figure's Saint Emperor pressure spread across the secret realm, forcing every living being to their knees and terrifying those who recognized it.

Willow God fought the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s remnant soul after it emerged from its cave and attacked her, while the Shi Household clansmen were caught in the battle’s divine-soul shockwaves. The clansmen all died, and Willow God and the remnant soul continued their clash as she unleashed a needle attack.

• A towering remnant soul emerged from the cave and revealed its hatred for Willow God, while the Shi Household clansmen recognized it as the Nirvana Saint Emperor.
• The Nirvana Saint Emperor’s remnant soul attacked Willow God, and she met its blow with her own Saint Emperor-level divine soul power.
• Their battle sent repeated divine-soul shockwaves across Saint Soul Peak, tearing apart the Shi Household clansmen’s souls and killing them all.
• Willow God blocked the remnant soul’s attacks, restrained its divine-soul blade with a whip, and shattered it.
• Willow God formed countless pale green needles and launched them at the remnant soul, which answered with an even more powerful roar.

Willow God grievously wounded the Saint Emperor’s remnant soul, but he absorbed the secret realm’s scattered divine soul power, restored himself, and regained memories of his past. He vowed to kill her and use her origin to resurrect himself, while his soul-shaking laughter drove the secret realm’s inhabitants to flee; Willow God answered with her Life Soul Seal.

• Willow God pierced the Saint Emperor’s remnant soul with divine soul needles, exploded them inside him, and struck him with her Saint Emperor-level secret art.
• The wounded Saint Emperor’s remnant soul absorbed scattered divine soul power, evaded Willow God’s attacks, and restored his body with greater strength and clarity.
• The Saint Emperor’s remnant soul remembered Willow God’s past palm strike and declared he would kill her, seize her origin, and resurrect himself.
• The Saint Emperor’s remnant soul’s laughter spread across the Nirvana Secret Realm, battering divine souls and forcing God Emperor experts to flee.
• Willow God challenged the Saint Emperor’s remnant soul and unleashed her Life Soul Seal upon him.

Willow God fought the Saint Emperor's Remnant Soul in the Nirvana Secret Realm, where its connection to the realm let it replenish its power and gradually gain the advantage. She unleashed a deadly barrage of soul swords that tore through its defenses and left it close to collapse.

• The Saint Emperor's Remnant Soul broke Willow God's Life Soul Seal, and the two clashed with fists and soul swords as their battle shook the Nirvana Secret Realm.
• Their soul-power waves killed many fleeing God Emperor experts, while survivors recognized the fight as a battle between Saint Emperor-level beings and fled farther away.
• Willow God realized the Saint Emperor's Remnant Soul could draw on the secret realm's power to heal and replenish itself, while her own soul power steadily dwindled.
• Willow God summoned over a hundred soul longswords and launched them at the Saint Emperor's Remnant Soul.
• The swords shredded its soul defenses and carved deep fissures through its body, causing its source power to drain and its form to near collapse.

The Nirvana Saint Emperor used his remnant soul to awaken his ancient body and attack Willow God at near-Saint Emperor strength. Willow God unleashed her suppressed power to fight him, and their first direct clash left her gravely wounded but shattered his giant fist.

• The Saint Emperor's remnant soul escaped Willow God's sword formation and entered the Saint Soul Space, stirring the Nirvana Secret Realm's ancient source.
• The Nirvana Saint Emperor revived his enormous body and declared that he would kill Willow God and seize her source to return to life.
• Willow God fought back with soul swords, then released her suppressed power and broke through to combat strength matching a Hundun Saint Emperor.
• Willow God and the Nirvana Saint Emperor collided with their full soul power, producing shock waves that annihilated fleeing Saint Emperors and countless other beings.
• The Nirvana Saint Emperor attacked with giant fists, and Willow God met one head-on, shattering her arm while blasting apart his fist.

Willow God defeated Nirvana Saint Emperor for the second time, then absorbed his remaining essence and began transforming toward the Hundun Saint Emperor Realm. As she cultivated, the Nine Nether Thunder Abyss erupted, forcing the God Emperor experts gathered nearby to flee.

• Willow God broke Nirvana Saint Emperor's final soul attack, bound him with willow branches, and pierced his skull, destroying his remaining soul essence.
• Willow God absorbed Nirvana Saint Emperor's vitality and essence, healing her wounds and rapidly strengthening her Dao foundation as she approached the Hundun Saint Emperor Realm.
• The Nine Nether Thunder Abyss erupted in violent waves of black lightning, shaking the surrounding star domains.
• The God Emperor experts cultivating at the Nine Nether Thunder Abyss fled in terror and only relaxed after escaping far beyond its reach.

The Nine Nether Saint Emperor sensed the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s presence during a battle and left the Nine Nether Thunder Abyss to investigate. At the ruined Nirvana Secret Realm, he discovered Willow God nearing a breakthrough to Saint Emperor and recognized her as the supposedly slain peak expert who had once terrified the heavens.

• The Nine Nether Saint Emperor felt the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s presence in a distant battle, along with an unfamiliar presence that filled him with unease.
• He left the Nine Nether Thunder Abyss and found the Nirvana Secret Realm transformed by a devastating battle, with traces confirming the Nirvana Saint Emperor had briefly returned before falling again.
• The Nine Nether Saint Emperor sensed someone breaking through to Saint Emperor within the secret realm and approached the source.
• Willow God absorbed the Nirvana Saint Emperor’s remaining origin power and restored her Great Dao of Life as a towering divine willow grew around her.
• The Nine Nether Saint Emperor recognized Willow God as the peak Saint Emperor who had once been besieged by several experts and reacted with terror at her return.

The Nine Nether Saint Emperor recognized the reborn Willow God and attacked her while she was on the verge of breaking through to the Saint Emperor Realm. After she was badly wounded and pierced by his lightning spear, she clutched a jade pendant as she faced death.

• The Nine Nether Saint Emperor realized the Willow God had returned but was weakened and tried to break through, so he decided to seize her life Dao foundation.
• The Nine Nether Saint Emperor sent a massive net of Nine Nether Profound Thunder crashing down on the Willow God, forcing her to halt her breakthrough and defend herself.
• The Willow God mocked the Nine Nether Saint Emperor for once fleeing in fear of her, and he overcame his terror and crushed her divine willow with his Saint Emperor pressure.
• The Nine Nether Saint Emperor formed a lightning spear and hurled it through the Willow God's defenses, piercing her body and ravaging her flesh, meridians, and soul.
• As she was dying, the Willow God tightened her hand around a smooth jade pendant.

Willow God’s jade pendant healed her and summoned Ye Chen’s powerful avatar, which confronted the Nine Nether Saint Emperor. Ye Chen’s avatar countered the Saint Emperor’s attacks, and the chapter ended as his golden swords also entered the void to pursue the hidden Space-Rending Flashing Thunder Blades.

• Willow God activated the jade pendant, which healed her wounds and formed a golden avatar of Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen reassured Willow God and faced the Nine Nether Saint Emperor, who attacked to claim her Saint Emperor Dao foundation.
• Ye Chen split the Saint Emperor’s sea of Nine Nether Profound Thunder with a golden Sword-Ray and forced him to evade a near-fatal strike.
• The Nine Nether Saint Emperor unleashed Space-Rending Flashing Thunder Blades that vanished into the void, while Ye Chen sent thousands of golden swords to meet them.
• The Saint Emperor expected his hidden blades to catch Ye Chen off guard, but the golden swords began flickering into the void as well.

The Nine Nether Saint Emperor fought Ye Chen’s golden avatar while trying to seize Willow God’s Saint Emperor origin. He finally destroyed the avatar with a massive lightning mountain, leaving himself confident and poised to claim Willow God.

• Ye Chen’s golden avatar intercepted and destroyed the Nine Nether Saint Emperor’s Space-Rending Flashing Thunder Blades.
• The Nine Nether Saint Emperor tried to attack Willow God from behind, but Ye Chen severed his wrist and forced him to retreat.
• Ye Chen and the Nine Nether Saint Emperor exchanged powerful attacks, and Ye Chen broke his ribs and sent him flying before the Saint Emperor healed and gained the upper hand.
• The Nine Nether Saint Emperor formed an enormous lightning mountain range and crushed Ye Chen’s golden avatar until it shattered.
• The Nine Nether Saint Emperor dismissed the destroyed avatar and turned toward Willow God with greedy intent.

Ye Chen appeared in his true body just as the Nine Nether Saint Emperor tried to capture the Willow God, then defeated him with a single attack. The Nine Nether Saint Emperor’s true body was shattered, and his origin consciousness fled through a fissure in the void.

• The Nine Nether Saint Emperor attacked the Willow God with a lightning cage before Ye Chen appeared with Xie Purou and Youruo.
• Ye Chen dismissed the Nine Nether Saint Emperor’s questions and launched ten golden Sword-Rays at him.
• The Nine Nether Saint Emperor defended himself with Nine Nether Profound Thunder and Thunderstorm Torrent, but Ye Chen’s Sword-Rays multiplied and broke through his attacks.
• The Sword-Rays pierced and shattered the Nine Nether Saint Emperor’s lightning body, leaving him without the strength to fight.
• The Nine Nether Saint Emperor gathered his scattered lightning around his origin consciousness and fled into a fissure in the void.

Ye Chen reunited with Willow God and learned that she was determined to settle her own vendetta, while Youruo and Little Rou offered her their support. To keep the Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor from tracing them, Ye Chen annihilated the Nine Nether Saint Emperor, triggering a catastrophic upheaval at the Nine Nether Thunder Abyss.

• Ye Chen froze the Nine Nether Saint Emperor in space as Willow God reunited with him and greeted him warmly.
• Youruo and Little Rou discovered that Willow God had nearly recovered her Saint Emperor cultivation, and Willow God marveled at their progress under Ye Chen's guidance.
• Little Rou and Ye Chen offered Willow God their support, but Willow God insisted on taking revenge herself, and Ye Chen respected her choice.
• Willow God asked Ye Chen to leave the Saint Emperor origin to her, and Ye Chen agreed to handle the Nine Nether Saint Emperor without leaving a trace.
• Ye Chen crushed the Nine Nether Saint Emperor with spatial laws, completely annihilating him.
• The Nine Nether Thunder Abyss erupted in black lightning, killing and injuring God Emperor experts nearby.

The Nine Nether Thunder Abyss erupted and vanished, killing countless God Emperor experts and leaving no trace of the Nine Nether Saint Emperor. Chi Xi and the Rushing Thunder Saint Emperor suspected he had fallen and went to report the catastrophe to the Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor.

• The Nine Nether Thunder Abyss unleashed its accumulated lightning, killing countless God Emperor experts before the storm subsided and the abyss disappeared.
• Chi Xi arrived at the empty void, found no trace of the Nine Nether Saint Emperor, and met the Rushing Thunder Saint Emperor.
• Chi Xi and the Rushing Thunder Saint Emperor sent a message to Nine Nether, received no reply, and concluded that he might have fallen.
• Chi Xi and the Rushing Thunder Saint Emperor decided to report the incident to the Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor rather than investigate themselves.
• Chi Xi and the Rushing Thunder Saint Emperor used their passage tokens to cross the Myriad Ages Thunder Sea toward the Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor's palace.

Chi Xi and Benlei reported the Nine Nether Saint Emperor’s murder to the Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor, who appointed Saint Emperor Wanjun to lead the investigation. Wanjun brought them to the vanished Nine Nether Thunder Abyss and used his Wanjun Flowing Light Mirror to reveal the catastrophe’s final moments.

• Chi Xi reported that the Nine Nether Saint Emperor appeared to have been murdered, and the Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor confirmed his death and declared the killer an enemy of the divine kingdom.
• Benlei asked to help investigate, and the Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor assigned Saint Emperor Wanjun to lead the case with Chi Xi and Benlei assisting.
• Saint Emperor Wanjun arrived, accepted full authority to investigate, and led Chi Xi and Benlei to the former site of the Nine Nether Thunder Abyss.
• Wanjun activated his Wanjun Flowing Light Mirror, which distorted space and reversed time to reconstruct the Nine Nether Thunder Abyss’s catastrophic explosion.