Recaps

Kunlun’s disciples survived the first round’s supply-drop battles and demonstrated their strength, with Su Jian killing Qin Cang after Qin insulted Kunlun. Sect Master Flying Snow learned what happened but feared provoking Kunlun, while Qin Hui arrived seeking revenge and was restrained.

• The sect masters approved supply drops for the contestants, and the deliveries sparked battles across the floating immortal island.
• Su Jian crippled three contestants who disparaged Kunlun, then confronted Qin Cang and defeated him after Qin’s Earth Vein Golden Dragon and Half-Emperor saber failed against Su Jian’s Sword Intent.
• Su Jian crippled the remaining contestants who insulted Kunlun, and the referee announced that his island’s thousand survivors had advanced to the second round.
• Sect Master Flying Snow learned from contestants’ memories that Su Jian had killed Qin Cang and broken his Half-Emperor saber, then confronted Ling Kong and Su Jian.
• Ling Kong’s jade pendant shielded him and Su Jian from Sect Master Flying Snow’s attacks, and the sect masters suspected it had been refined by a Hunyuan Divine Emperor.
• Kunlun’s disciples returned and discussed their battles, while other contestants doubted Su Jian’s feat and claimed Kunlun relied on an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
• Gu Xinghui, Xue Yuexin, Yu Yang, and Wan Tianhua dismissed Kunlun’s achievements as weapon-assisted, while Qin Hui confronted Su Jian to avenge Qin Cang.
• Sect Master Flying Snow stopped Qin Hui from attacking Su Jian because he feared provoking the powerful being behind Kunlun Holy Land.

Su Jian killed Qin Hui in the arena, then Kunlun’s disciples faced Sect Master Flying Snow until a mysterious powerhouse forced him to retreat. As the Void Kun Genius Battle continued, Ye Chen investigated an invading red power, destroyed it, and entered the Mist Swamp, where Zhilan’s party unknowingly followed his trail.

• Su Jian defeated Qin Hui with a strand of Sword Qi, killing him and provoking Sect Master Flying Snow to threaten Kunlun’s disciples.
• A mysterious powerhouse froze Sect Master Flying Snow and warned that the Flying Snow Sect would be destroyed if he harmed the disciples, forcing him to leave.
• Ye Chen investigated red Qi in the Yongzhang Great World, rescued three cultivators it had corrupted, and destroyed the unfamiliar rule behind it.
• Ye Chen searched the Void Kun Realm, found another site of eerie power, and entered the Mist Swamp to investigate.
• Zhilan’s party met Ye Chen in the swamp and continued searching for Extreme Baleful Intent Yin Dragon Divine Liquid after he disappeared into the mist.
• Ye Chen killed attacking crocodiles, strange trees, and giant red serpents as he advanced deeper into the swamp.
• Zhilan’s party found a crocodile cut apart and an area burned clear of mist, but the bearded man dismissed Zhilan’s suspicion that Ye Chen had caused the destruction.

Ye Chen defeated the source of the Mist Swamp’s contamination and preserved the Divine Martial Saint Emperor’s remnant soul, but the greater source of the strange power remained unknown. At the Genius Battle, Zixing refused powerful sects’ offers after defeating Xue Yuexin, while Mu Yan pressed Gu Xinghui toward defeat.

• Zhilan and her companions followed the trail of devastation through the Mist Swamp, where Ye Chen erased five swamp Kings and continued toward the contaminated depths.
• Ye Chen destroyed the formation sealing the infected creatures, cleansed them of the eerie power, and entered the spatial rift to investigate its source.
• At the altar, Ye Chen helped the Divine Martial Saint Emperor fight the gaunt old man, then defeated and sealed the old man inside the immortal bell.
• Ye Chen preserved the Divine Martial Saint Emperor’s fading soul and questioned the gaunt old man, who claimed the strange power was holy power before destroying himself.
• At the Genius Battle, Zixing overcame Xue Yuexin’s layered formations and rejected offers from powerful sects, affirming her loyalty to Kunlun Holy Land.
• Mu Yan dominated his match against Gu Xinghui, resisting his techniques and attacks even after Gu Xinghui transformed into his enormous true body.
• Mu Yan split Gu Xinghui’s azure beam with a golden sword, which continued toward Gu Xinghui.

Mu Yan defeated Gu Xinghui, and the Kunlun Holy Land disciples rejected offers to join other sects. After the Vast Sea Sect threatened Kunlun, Ye Chen killed its leaders and began destroying the sect, leaving its remaining experts fleeing or awaiting their deaths.

• Mu Yan defeated Gu Xinghui, then returned to his fellow Kunlun disciples as they celebrated their victories and rejected other sects’ recruitment offers.
• The Vast Sea Sect Master attacked Kunlun’s disciples, but Ling Kong used mysterious seven-colored armor to fight back until Xuan Fu of the Mystic Heaven Spirit Sect arrived and demanded to see Kunlun’s sect master.
• Ye Chen appeared, killed God Emperor Xuan Fu, and executed the Vast Sea Sect Master for threatening Kunlun’s disciples.
• Ye Chen led Kunlun’s disciples to the Vast Sea Sect, where he killed four Hunyuan Divine Emperor ancestors and demanded ninety percent of the sect’s wealth.
• The Vast Sea Sect ancestors attacked Ye Chen with treasures and the Myriad Tribulations Life-Exterminating Formation, but he emerged unharmed and rejected their offers of surrender and vassal status.
• Ye Chen annihilated the Vast Sea Sect ancestors as they fled, pursuing them across the realm while the last remaining expert accepted that escape was impossible.