Recaps

Ye Chen led Kunlun Holy Land in destroying the Vast Sea Sect, then restored the Divine Martial Saint Emperor and watched his disciples advance through seclusion. The stretch ended with Mu Yan and Su Jian paying off a wager by kissing Ye Chen on the cheeks.

• Ye Chen opened a void gate for Kunlun’s forces, and they overwhelmed the Vast Sea Sect as its experts’ cultivation regressed and Kunlun’s disciples defeated powerful opponents.
• Mu Yan, Gu Yingluo, Su Jian, Zixing, Ziyue, and Kunlun’s other disciples won their battles, leaving the Vast Sea Sect on the verge of defeat.
• After three months of fighting, Ling Kong accepted the surrender of some Vast Sea Sect members, while Kunlun routed the rest and destroyed the sect.
• Kunlun plundered the Vast Sea Sect’s territory, and its disciples returned home to enter seclusion after the battle.
• Ye Chen reforged a body for the Divine Martial Saint Emperor and revived him, while the Emperor began cultivating again.
• Mu Yan and Su Jian advanced to Heavenly Emperor Peak, Su Jian reached Hunyuan Divine Lord, and Zixing and Ziyue broke through to Hunyuan Divine Lord together.
• Mu Yan and Su Jian lost a wager to Yingluo, Zixing, and Ziyue, then kissed Ye Chen on both cheeks as their punishment.

As Shi Hao and Kunlun’s other disciples advanced, the Mystic Heaven Spirit Sect invaded to avenge Xuan Fu. Ye Chen trapped the invaders inside an immortal bell, where Kunlun’s forces fought them and the bell’s deadly trials began; the survivors were left facing a mysterious azure lotus.

• Shi Hao merged with his other selves across spacetime and broke through to the middle stage of the Hunyuan Divine King Realm, drawing the attention of Kunlun’s elders and ancestors.
• After the Vast Sea Sect fell, the Void Kun Realm’s factions prepared gifts for Kunlun’s gathering, while the Mystic Heaven Spirit Sect decided to attack Kunlun and sent a vast army toward the realm.
• Guests flocked to Kunlun’s banquet and marveled at its young, powerful disciples, but ten Mystic Heaven Spirit Sect warships arrived and demanded that Kunlun surrender.
• Mu Yan confronted the invaders, and Ye Chen stepped outside the protective formation, confirmed that he had killed Xuan Fu, and offered the guests a safe way to leave.
• Most guests fled, but the Master of the Blood Jade Palace and a few others stayed as Ye Chen’s people prepared to fight, and the Mystic Heaven Spirit Sect’s warships failed to damage Kunlun’s formation.
• Ye Chen trapped the sect’s sixty-four Hunyuan Divine Emperors and its elite troops inside an immortal bell, then Kunlun’s members entered the bell to battle the separated forces.
• The trapped Hunyuan Divine Emperors failed to break the bell’s space and chose to wait Ye Chen out, but he unleashed the Star Rain Nine Deaths Tribulation and destroyed thirty-five early God Emperor experts.
• The remaining invaders vowed revenge, then raised their defenses against a small azure divine lotus whose green ripples shattered a God Emperor’s armor.

Ye Chen turned the Mystic Heaven Spirit Sect’s invasion into a series of trials for Kunlun, while the Void Kun Realm’s other powers failed to break his defenses. After crushing the forces that had gathered against him, Ye Chen rejected their pleas to submit and began wiping them out.

• Ye Chen killed the God Emperor experts trapped inside the azure divine lotus, and the Mystic Heaven Spirit Sect learned that most of its invasion force had perished.
• The Void Kun Realm’s sect leaders joined forces to attack Kunlun’s immortal bell, but their combined assaults left it unharmed.
• Inside the bell’s battlefield, Kunlun’s disciples fought the Mystic Heaven Spirit Sect while Ye Chen healed and strengthened them, helping them win successive battles.
• Ye Shuang’er and Kunlun’s formations routed another Mystic Heaven Spirit Sect force, while Ling Kong led the pursuit of the survivors.
• The outside leaders abandoned their attacks on the bell and turned toward Kunlun, but Ye Chen appeared and the Divine Martial Saint Emperor killed experts who tried to flee.
• Ye Chen summoned lightning to kill the experts who begged for mercy, then rejected the survivors’ offer to submit and launched another attack intended to kill nearly all the Void Kun Realm’s powerhouses.

Ye Chen’s forces destroyed the Mystic Heaven Spirit Sect and brought the Void Kun Realm under Kunlun’s rule. After Kunlun opened recruitment, young candidates began the Illusion Steps, where the first trial tested their Dao hearts.

• Ye Chen’s lightning wiped out nearly all the Void Kun Realm’s experts, and he ordered the Master of the Blood Jade Palace and other women to consolidate the realm’s forces.
• The Master of the Blood Jade Palace led Kunlun loyalists in destroying the Fortune Origin Sect and other anti-Kunlun forces.
• Kunlun’s fighters faced the remaining Mystic Heaven Spirit Sect forces, and Ye Shuang’er killed God King Zigang while Mu Yan, Shi Hao, and Luo Feng defeated their opponents.
• Luo Feng survived an enemy’s self-destruction and helped Kunlun wipe out the Mystic Heaven Spirit Sect, after which Kunlun subdued the rest of the Void Kun Realm.
• The Mystic Heaven Spirit Sect’s master learned of the defeat, and the Formless Saint Emperor sent the Abyss-Suppressing Great General and an elite force to fetch the Lord of Kunlun.
• As Kunlun’s members advanced in cultivation, Ling Kong announced recruitment, drawing candidates from across the Void Kun Realm to the Holy Land.
• Ling Kong introduced the Illusion Steps, and a boy from the Shi Household raced ahead before an illusion tested his resolve.
• The Shi Household boy agreed in the illusion to sacrifice his imagined family for power, failed the trial, and was swept from the staircase as other candidates faced similar tests.