Recaps

Chen Nian obtained the Tiankong Divine Stone, awakened a powerful Word Spirit, and traveled to the Dragon Wing Domain to seek its Divine Stone from Bi Shuang. He found Bi Shuang at her dead brother’s memorial and uncovered evidence that she was hiding something behind a stone wall.

• Chen Nian absorbed the Tiankong Divine Stone, gained ten points to all attributes, and awakened the Tiankong Divine Cannon Word Spirit.
• The Dragon Wing Domain lord praised Chen Nian but said he had already promised the domain’s Divine Stone to Bi Shuang, whose strength had stalled since her brother died.
• Chen Nian traveled with Jing Feng and Yu Jin to the cave where Bi Shuang’s brother had died and entered to speak with her.
• Bi Shuang agreed to give Chen Nian the Divine Stone, but denied any reason for her lack of progress and dismissed his questions about her bloodied arm.
• Chen Nian noticed signs of a hidden door and heard a beast roar behind the stone wall, then shattered the wall with his palm.

Chen Nian discovered that Bi Shuang had spent decades secretly caring for her mutated younger brother, then killed him to end his suffering. After Bi Shuang attacked him in grief, Chen Nian left Dragon Wing Domain, where Yu Jin brought him the Divine Stone Bi Shuang had sent.

• Chen Nian found Bi Shuang's mutated younger brother chained in a cavern and learned she had been feeding him her blood for decades.
• Chen Nian used Word Spirit, Death God to kill Bi Shuang's brother, and Bi Shuang cried out in grief.
• Bi Shuang attacked Chen Nian with Dragon Arts, Dragon's Lament, but his Divine Crystal Shield stopped her; he told her to seek revenge after regaining her strength and left.
• Chen Nian told the lord of Dragon Wing Domain what had happened, then prepared to leave the next morning for another sky domain.
• Yu Jin caught up with Chen Nian at the harbor and delivered the Divine Stone from Bi Shuang.

Chen Nian reached the Forest Spirit Domain seeking its Divine Stone, but learned that the Tree God could not make one while the spirit tree was withered. He agreed to travel to the Spring of Life in the forbidden Undead Valley to restore the tree, leaving with three A-Rank Wallbreakers.

• Chen Nian absorbed the Dragon Wing Divine Stone, raising his attributes and awakening progress while the Dragon Slayer Saber advanced to Tier Five.
• Chen Nian arrived in the Forest Spirit Domain, learned the lord lived in the Tree Palace, and borrowed 50 sky coins from a young woman for the trip there.
• Chen Nian asked the Forest Spirit Domain's lord for her Divine Stone, and she recognized him as the hero who had stopped the Crimson Flame Domain's invasion and completed other great feats.
• The lord explained that the Tree God could not condense a Divine Stone because the polluted world had weakened the spirit tree, and that water from the Spring of Life could restore it.
• Chen Nian agreed to fetch water from the Spring of Life in the forbidden Undead Valley, and the lord sent three A-Rank Wallbreakers with him.
• The Forest Spirit Domain's people cheered as Chen Nian departed in a treant-pulled carriage, and the young woman realized the handsome stranger who borrowed her money was the famous hero.

Chen Nian reunited with Tang Rou and brought her along with three A-Rank Wallbreakers to Undead Valley in search of the Spring of Life. After the group was surrounded by skeletons that revived endlessly, Chen Nian revealed his Golden Pupils.

• Chen Nian recognized Tang Rou steering another airship, took her aboard, and learned she had bought her ship with money from his ex-girlfriend.
• Chen Nian and Tang Rou jumped into Undead Valley together, and Chen Nian used Word Spirit, Peng Wind, to slow their fall.
• The other three A-Rank Wallbreakers descended into the valley and said the Spring of Life lay deep inside an otherworldly paradise.
• As the party traveled through the dark valley, the skeletons around them reassembled and attacked.
• The A-Rank Wallbreakers blasted the skeletons apart, but the creatures revived, and Chen Nian ordered everyone closer before his Golden Pupils lit up.

Chen Nian used his new Tiankong Divine Cannon to destroy a horde of undead and a giant python, then led the group to the Spring of Life. As the group collected the spring water, an eerie water-like eye rose from the pool and watched them.

• Chen Nian summoned an Undead Bone Dragon and carried the group deeper into the valley, where stronger skeletal monsters attacked.
• A colossal python shattered the dragon and trapped Chen Nian, Tang Rou, and the others between it and an undead army.
• Tang Rou raised a barrier while Chen Nian unleashed Sequence 126-Tiankong Divine Cannon, blasting the monsters and python apart.
• The group found the Spring of Life in a hidden cave and began collecting its water while Chen Nian guarded the entrance.
• A water-like eyeball rose from the spring and watched the group as they collected water.

The Spring of Life attacked Chen Nian, Tang Rou, and their companions, dragging them underwater and trying to drown them. Chen Nian rescued Tang Rou and brought her back to consciousness, then faced the Spring of Life as it took human form.

• The Spring of Life seized Tang Rou and three others, and Chen Nian jumped in after them.
• Chen Nian found Tang Rou drowning and fought the spring’s control while she and their three companions dragged him downward.
• Tang Rou’s Divinity briefly resisted the spring, allowing Chen Nian to unleash his divine power and carry her ashore.
• Chen Nian used the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art to draw the spring’s water from Tang Rou, and she woke up and pushed him away.
• The Spring of Life rose from the water in human form, and Chen Nian confronted it while Tang Rou denied being his secretary.

Chen Nian defeated the Spring of Life in Undead Valley and escaped with Tang Rou, securing a portion of the Spring of Life before destroying its consciousness. He returned to the Forest Spirit Domain with the fleet, where news of his success shook the domain.

• Chen Nian attacked the Spring of Life, then let it enter his body so he could trap part of it and burn away the rest with Zhurong.
• The Spring of Life’s flames threatened Tang Rou, but Chen Nian teleported to her and shielded her from the blast.
• The Spring of Life’s remaining consciousness tried to possess Chen Nian, but his Heavenly Eyes erased it and he obtained Fragment of Evil “II.”
• Chen Nian and Tang Rou rode the Undead Bone Dragon out of Undead Valley after its restrictions vanished.
• The fleet returned with Chen Nian to the Forest Spirit Domain, where the news of his victory caused a commotion.

Chen Nian returned to the Forest Spirit Domain with the Spring of Life and restored the Tree of Life by vomiting the Spring over its roots. The Tree regained its vitality, though Tang Rou’s reminder about Chen Nian’s saliva left the lord and elders nauseated.

• Chen Nian arrived at the harbor to cheers, and the lord welcomed him and learned that the others who had gone with him had not returned.
• Chen Nian gave the lord’s ring to the girl who had once lent him 50 Sky Coins and asked the lord to ensure she was protected.
• At the Tree of Life, Chen Nian told the lord the Spring of Life was inside his body and used the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art to vomit it over the tree.
• The Tree of Life regained its lush foliage and spread a vibrant aura across the Sky Domain, prompting the lord and elders to praise Chen Nian.
• Tang Rou remarked that the fresh air smelled of Chen Nian’s saliva, and the lord dry-heaved.

Chen Nian absorbed the Nature Divine Stone and traveled to the Wind Singing Domain to seek its Divine Stone. There, he reunited with Yang Wei, who revealed that the Flying Ship Competition’s champion would win it.

• The Tree of Life blessed Tang Rou, so Chen Nian left her in the Forest Spirit Domain’s care while he absorbed the Divine Stone and awakened the Word Spirit Tree Prison.
• Chen Nian planned to visit the other sky domains before challenging the Crimson Flame Domain, while news of his victories unsettled his enemies and prompted Uesawa Ueki to head toward the Wind Singing Domain.
• Chen Nian arrived at the crowded Wind Singing Domain and saw Yang Wei performing impressive flying-ship maneuvers as a competitor nicknamed Veteran Driver.
• Chen Nian reunited with Yang Wei, who explained that the upcoming Flying Ship Competition’s champion would receive the Chanting Wind Domain’s Divine Stone.

Chen Nian, Yang Wei, and Uesawa Ueki formed the Tiankong Dragon team to compete for Wind Singing Domain’s Divine Stone. After qualifying, they began the final race, with Uesawa Ueki taking the first relay leg.

• Chen Nian and Yang Wei discussed the airship tournament and needed a third teammate.
• Uesawa Ueki joined their team after Chen Nian’s words convinced him that the strong should excel in every area.
• The trio named their team Tiankong Dragon, registered, and learned the basics of piloting airships.
• The Tiankong Dragon team qualified among the sixteen finalists.
• The final race began with Uesawa Ueki, Yang Wei, and Chen Nian assigned the first, second, and third legs respectively.

Uesawa Ueki used lightning to recover from an opening attack and brought Tiankong Dragon into fourth place, while Yang Wei survived a sabotage attempt and reached the final relay. Chen Nian then accelerated toward the leaders with powerful wind Word Spirits, but an explosion blocked the volcanic cave entrance as the final leg began.

• Two racers rammed Uesawa Ueki’s airship at the start, but he used Thunder... fury! to surge from last place to fourth and complete the first relay.
• Yang Wei took the second leg through a difficult course, while a racer from Bro, You Smell So Good hijacked another ship and then attacked Yang Wei’s burning airship.
• Yang Wei switched onto his opponent’s airship and rammed the hijacker, eliminating him before reaching the third relay in fourth place.
• Chen Nian took the final leg and used Peng Wind and Wind-Gathering Cannon to accelerate toward the leaders.
• An explosion blocked the entrance to the volcanic cave just as the third-place racer entered it.

Chen Nian overcame a blocked volcano, a suicidal attack, and a tornado to catch the two Wind Singing Domain racers and win the airship race. The Tiankong Dragon Fleet took the championship, and the other racers fell behind at the finish.

• Chen Nian used Divine Crystal Shield to smash through the blocked volcano without losing speed.
• A Crimson Flame Domain racer rammed Chen Nian’s airship with an exploding fireball, but Chen Nian emerged unharmed while the racer died from the collision.
• Chen Nian entered the tornado and used Judgment to protect his ship and keep it steady as he passed through.
• The two Wind Singing Domain racers tried to block Chen Nian near the finish, but he used Sovereign to increase their ships’ mass and send them plummeting.
• Chen Nian crossed the finish line first, and the Tiankong Dragon Fleet won the championship.

After winning the race, Chen Nian claimed the Divine Stone and awakened a powerful wind Word Spirit before setting out with Yang Wei for Demonic Fog Mountain, the final forbidden ground. There, he found Uesawa Ueki had gone in ahead of them and unexpectedly encountered Qin Yu.

• Chen Nian, Yang Wei, and Uesawa Ueki won the race, and the lord of the Wind Singing Domain reluctantly awarded them the Divine Stone.
• Chen Nian discussed the prize with Yang Wei and Uesawa Ueki, then absorbed it and awakened the Sequence 80 Word Spirit, Wind King Greatsword.
• Chen Nian planned to visit the third forbidden ground, but Uesawa Ueki secretly left during the night to go ahead.
• Chen Nian and Yang Wei arrived at Demonic Fog Mountain and learned its contamination and mutated monsters made it extremely dangerous.
• As Chen Nian was about to enter the mountain, Qin Yu tapped his shoulder and told him to keep quiet.

Qin Yu joined Chen Nian in Demonic Fog Mountain, where they fought monsters while she helped shield them from the miasma. They found the boss's lair and discovered a strange cocoon beginning to hatch.

• Qin Yu reunited with Chen Nian and offered to help him explore Demonic Fog Mountain, while Yang Wei tried to ask her for startup money before leaving them alone.
• Qin Yu used Light of Purification to protect herself and Chen Nian as they entered the mountain.
• Qin Yu destroyed a Devouring Beast with the Tiankong Bow, and Chen Nian rescued her from a man-eating flower and told her she needed more combat awareness.
• Chen Nian and Qin Yu entered a cave they suspected was the boss's lair and noticed footprints near the entrance.
• An oval, silk-wrapped creature fell before Qin Yu, began to move, and cracked open as a dark bluish claw emerged.

Chen Nian and Qin Yu reached the monster nest, where they were trapped between waves of mutant creatures and black shadows resembling powerful explorers. Chen Nian suspected the explorers’ real bodies were mutating inside the cocoons, and he tried to provoke Uesawa Ueki as the battle worsened.

• A cocoon monster resisted Chen Nian’s Flame Explosion, but Qin Yu killed it with a crimson arrow before more cocoons fell and released powerful mutant beasts.
• Chen Nian and Qin Yu ran deeper into the cave and found a vast nest filled with thousands of cocoons and ten blackened fighters, including Uesawa Ueki.
• Uesawa Ueki and the other black shadows attacked; Chen Nian used Judgment to destroy two shadows, while Uesawa Ueki dodged and Qin Yu struggled against the attackers.
• More monsters hatched as the black shadows regenerated, leaving Chen Nian and Qin Yu surrounded with their retreat blocked by the Primordial Divine Ape’s fight against the pursuers.
• Chen Nian theorized that the shadows were parts of explorers whose real bodies were inside the cocoons, and he taunted Uesawa Ueki by threatening to put his little sister in a maid outfit.

Chen Nian and Uesawa Ueki defeated the Shadow Nightmare, freeing the cocooned survivors and letting Chen Nian complete the Fragments of Evil set. After saying goodbye to Qin Yu, Chen Nian synthesized a Tier Five mythic necklace and set his sights on finding the last two Divine Stones in the Earth Vein Domain.

• Uesawa Ueki broke out of a cocoon, located the Shadow Nightmare, and cut open its hiding place.
• Chen Nian killed the fleeing Shadow Nightmare, collected the final Fragment of Evil, and offered the monsters' experience to Uesawa Ueki.
• The cocoons lost their power, freeing survivors, and Chen Nian and Qin Yu escaped with the others.
• Chen Nian saw Qin Yu off as she returned to the King Domain to handle her duties as queen.
• Chen Nian synthesized the Ominous Omen Demonic Necklace, which granted immunity to contamination and could petrify monsters.
• Chen Nian decided to seek the final two Divine Stones, starting with the Earth Vein Domain.

Chen Nian traveled to the Earth Vein Domain to claim its Divine Stone and confront Shi Mu, but rejected the lord’s demands and made his own terms. The lord trapped him inside the Stone Emperor Hall, convinced its layered stone cage could contain even an S Rank powerhouse.

• The Earth Vein Domain’s leaders discussed how to deal with Chen Nian, while Chen Nian arrived and admired the domain’s stoneworking technology.
• Chen Nian told the guards he had come for the Divine Stone, and an elder escorted him to meet the lord in the Stone Emperor Hall.
• The lord offered Chen Nian Xiao Ling and demanded a discount on crystals, a new queen for the King Domain, and oversight of people arriving from Chen Nian’s world.
• Chen Nian demanded the Divine Stone and an apology from Shi Mu in exchange for sparing his life, dismissing the lord’s conditions as a joke.
• The enraged lord activated the Stone Emperor Hall, which transformed into a thick stone cage around Chen Nian.
• The elders gathered with the lord and claimed the cage’s ten layers of S Rank-resistant stone would eventually kill Chen Nian.

Chen Nian broke free of the Earth Vein Domain’s stone prison and fought its Ancient Stone Giant, which Shi Mu and three S Rank Wallbreakers piloted. After his golden divine phantom vanished and the giant moved in to finish him, crimson appeared in Chen Nian’s pupils.

• Chen Nian shattered the stone prison, killing and injuring people with the flying fragments.
• The Earth Vein Domain lord deployed the Ancient Stone Giant, and Shi Mu climbed inside to join three S Rank Wallbreakers piloting it.
• The stone giant’s first punch blasted Chen Nian into rubble, but he climbed out alive.
• Chen Nian summoned Yang Jian’s golden phantom, which caught the giant’s next punch and fought it to a standstill.
• Chen Nian exhausted his divine power and the phantom disappeared, prompting the elders, pilots, and Shi Mu to urge the giant to finish him.
• Crimson appeared in Chen Nian’s pupils as the Ancient Stone Giant advanced.

Chen Nian defeated the Earth Vein Domain’s ancient stone giant with Tamamo-no-Mae’s help, killed Shi Mu, and forced the lord to renegotiate. The lord agreed to surrender the Divine Stone, a million Sky Coins, ten beautiful women, and the stone giant.

• Tamamo-no-Mae restrained the stone giant and accepted power from her other personality so Chen Nian could attack without relying on his forbidden power.
• Chen Nian used Word Spirit, Origin-Destroying World to erase the giant’s Divine Marks, broke into its chest, and killed Shi Mu while sparing the other two S-Rank pilots.
• The lord agreed to give Chen Nian the Divine Stone, but Chen Nian demanded a million Sky Coins and ten exceptionally beautiful women as well.
• Chen Nian demanded the stone giant and threatened to destroy it, so the lord surrendered it and ordered the elders to select ten women, including Elder Liu’s daughter.

Chen Nian recovered in the Earth Vein Domain after absorbing its Divine Stone, then arranged for Yang Wei to take the recruited women and the stone giant to the King Domain. As Chen Nian prepared to head for the Chi Yan Domain and its final Divine Stone, Tamamo-no-Mae told him to come back alive.

• The Earth Vein Domain's lord explained to Elder Liu why he had submitted to Chen Nian and predicted that the Crimson Flame Domain would resist him.
• Chen Nian absorbed the Earth Vein Divine Stone, then let Liu Xiaoyan wash his feet; she gained strength from the experience and became fond of him.
• Three days later, Chen Nian gave Yang Wei a group of women as employees and appointed Liu Xiaoyan to manage personnel.
• Chen Nian sent Yang Wei to deliver the stone giant to the queen of the King Domain as a gift.
• Tamamo-no-Mae saw Chen Nian off and told him to return alive from the Chi Yan Domain.

Chen Nian set out for the Crimson Flame Domain and found a huge allied force waiting to support him. The chapter ended with Lan Jing'er reminding him that he belonged to the Crystal Domain and getting him to promise its resources.

• In the King Domain, Qin Yu proposed sending troops to support Chen Nian, but the council elders objected until Yang Wei arrived with the stone giant that Chen Nian had given the King Domain.
• After seeing the stone giant, the elders changed their minds and urged Qin Yu to send troops to back Chen Nian.
• Chen Nian reached the Crimson Flame Domain and found forces from the King Domain, Crystal Domain, and Dragon Wing Domain assembled, along with Ye Hongling, Su Jinyu, Zhao Yixue, Tang Rou, and others.
• Chen Nian took Xiao Zhu from Ye Hongling, while Su Jinyu jokingly threatened to cook the bird.
• Lan Jing'er questioned Chen Nian about giving the stone giant to the King Domain, and he promised to give the Crystal Domain the Crimson Flame Domain's resources.

Chen Nian entered the Crimson Flame Domain with Xiao Zhu and was led by envoy Chi Lin into the Yanhuang Sacred Land, where seven S-Rank Wallbreakers trapped them in the Heavenly Flame Great Formation. Chen Nian shielded Chi Lin, then sent Xiao Zhu out to consume the flames as the attack continued.

• Qin Yu offered Chen Nian the King Domain’s support, but he refused to bring anyone inside the Crimson Flame Domain except Xiao Zhu.
• Chi Lin welcomed Chen Nian and led him to the Yanhuang Sacred Land, saying the domain lord would negotiate there.
• Seven S-Rank Wallbreakers activated the Heavenly Flame Great Formation, killing the delegation and trapping Chen Nian and Chi Lin in the flames.
• Chen Nian held the flames at bay and explained to Chi Lin that the Crimson Flame Domain had used her as bait.
• Chen Nian released Xiao Zhu, who formed a protective barrier around him and Chi Lin before diving into the flames to eat them.

Chen Nian survived the Heavenly Flame Great Formation and slaughtered six exhausted S Rank powerhouses of the Crimson Flame Domain. Just as he was about to kill Chi Xiang, Chi Ming emerged from the Flame Demon Abyss with the Yanhuang Divine Sword and attacked him.

• The little Vermilion Bird absorbed fire energy while Chen Nian waited out the formation, and the seven S Rank powerhouses maintained it for a day and a night.
• When the formation faded, the Crimson Flame Domain’s fighters discovered Chen Nian, Buyu, Chi Lin, and the Vermilion Bird had survived unharmed.
• An elder tried to bargain with Chen Nian by offering Chi Lin, but Chen Nian killed him and said he was repaying them for raising his unruly child.
• Chen Nian killed six of the seven exhausted S Rank powerhouses while the Vermilion Bird used flames to block their escape.
• As Chen Nian approached the helpless Chi Xiang, Chi Ming emerged from the Flame Demon Abyss carrying the Yanhuang Divine Sword and hurled a blazing fireball at Chen Nian.

Chen Nian fought Chi Ming in the Crimson Flame Domain, refusing to rely on his demonic power, but was blasted into the Flame Demon Abyss. There, he faced the three Flame Demons and saw a chance to absorb their divine power and learn another divine art.

• The Vermilion Bird swallowed Chi Ming’s fireball, but Chi Ming injured her before Chen Nian drove him back.
• Chen Nian joined forces with the Vermilion Bird to strengthen the Dragon Slayer Saber and traded blows with Chi Ming, who revealed he had absorbed the Crimson Flame Domain’s Divine Stone.
• Chi Ming used Flame God Blood and struck Chen Nian with Blast Fist, Shatter Meteor, sending him into the Flame Demon Abyss.
• The elders and Chi Xiang believed Chen Nian was dead and celebrated Chi Ming’s victory.
• Chen Nian discovered the Abyss’s three-day trial and faced its blue, crimson, and gold Flame Demons, hoping to absorb their divine power.

Chen Nian and Xiao Zhu destroyed the three flame demons in the Flame Demon Abyss, causing the Yanhuang statue to shatter and granting Chen Nian the divine art Cage. After emerging, Chen Nian used Cage to kill Chi Ming instantly, though the technique nearly exhausted his divine power.

• Chen Nian used God Descent Technique to fight the flame demons while Xiao Zhu weakened them with Vermilion Bird Divine Fire and finished all three.
• Chen Nian absorbed the demons' remaining power, evolving Tree Prison into the divine art Cage, then left the remaining fragments for Xiao Zhu.
• The Yanhuang statue shattered, and Chen Nian and Xiao Zhu emerged from the Flame Demon Abyss, astonishing the Crimson Flame Domain's lord, elders, and Chi Ming.
• Chi Ming charged Chen Nian, who trapped him in a golden Cage and caused him to vanish as the cage contracted and burst.
• Chen Nian realized that Cage had nearly drained all his divine power, despite killing Chi Ming without giving him a chance to fight back.