Recaps

After the Everlasting Immortal Sect members stopped attacking one another, Li Fenghuai blamed a demonic technique, but Ye Chen suspected the Heavenly Dao had controlled them. Jiang Yantian backed Ye Chen’s explanation, and the disciples accepted that Heavenly Dao Qi had driven their outbursts.

• Li Fenghuai identified Delusive Thoughts Devour the Spirit as the cause of the sect members’ sudden violence and warned that a demonic path expert was nearby.
• Jiang Yantian privately recognized that he had only suppressed the region’s Qi and watched the others’ repressed hostility erupt.
• Ye Chen proposed that the Heavenly Dao had used Extinguish Spirituality and Lose the Dao to invade their minds and sever their connection to the Great Dao.
• Jiang Yantian claimed he had sensed Heavenly Dao Qi and been forced to insult the sect master and elders against his will.
• The disciples accepted Jiang Yantian’s account and concluded that Heavenly Dao Qi had controlled them.

The Everlasting Immortal Sect blamed Ye Chen for provoking the Heavenly Dao, while Jiang Yantian secretly wrote a threatening message on the barrier to spread panic. Ye Chen and Li Xuanji found the same bizarre escape plan in their storybooks: build an altar and insult the Heavenly Dao to trigger the forbidden zone’s defenses.

• The sect disciples accused Ye Chen of bringing the Heavenly Dao’s retaliation upon them, while Li Xuanji feared that the sect master and Bi Liushui would punish him.
• The disciples questioned whether they had acted under outside control, then blamed Ye Chen and demanded that the sect master break the barrier.
• Jiang Yantian inscribed a counterfeit Heavenly Dao threat on the barrier, warning that everyone in the sect would be killed.
• The sect disciples saw the message and panicked, believing the Heavenly Dao intended to destroy them.
• Ye Chen checked his changing storybook and discovered that setting up an altar and insulting the Heavenly Dao might trigger the forbidden zone’s defenses.
• Li Xuanji secretly read his storybook and found the same proposed solution.

Trapped in the Ancient Demon Domain forbidden zone and facing the Heavenly Dao’s punishment, Ye Chen announced a desperate plan to escape. He proposed provoking the Heavenly Dao with a sacrificial rite in hopes that its clash with the forbidden zone’s will would open a way out.

• Li Xuanji and Ye Chen feared that building an altar to curse the Heavenly Dao would provoke divine punishment.
• Ye Chen interrupted the crowd and claimed he had a way to survive the calamity, prompting disciples to blame and curse him.
• Jiang Yantian fanned the crowd’s anger and despair as the disciples demanded Ye Chen explain his method.
• Ye Chen revealed the Heaven-Profaning Sacrificial Rite, which would use an altar and heart’s blood to provoke the Heavenly Dao and trigger a clash with the Ancient Demon Domain forbidden zone.
• Some disciples accepted the dangerous plan, reasoning that they had little left to lose.

Jiang Yantian turned the sect’s resentment toward the Heavenly Dao into a public spectacle and led thousands in building an altar to provoke heavenly punishment. When their anger proved insufficient, he secretly placed the Ten Thousand Demons Banner in a disciple’s hand, unleashing a vast horde of resentful spirits and leaving the disciple—and the sect—stunned by its power.

• Jiang Yantian broadcast himself insulting the Heavenly Dao and encouraged the sect to reject its authority.
• Li Xuanji rallied the sect to build an altar and gather resentment to draw down heavenly punishment.
• Thousands of cultivators formed an altar and cursed the Heavenly Dao, but their resentment remained too weak.
• A sect member stirred up fresh grudges by revealing intimate betrayals, causing resentment to surge across the sect.
• Jiang Yantian secretly placed the Ten Thousand Demons Banner in an inner disciple’s hand, and the disciple recited its incantation.
• The Ten Thousand Demons Banner released hundreds of millions of resentful spirits, astonishing the disciple and everyone around him.

Jiang Yantian orchestrated Li Xuanji and Ye Chen’s desecration of the Heavenly Dao, using an altar and the Ten Thousand Demons Banner to drive a crowd into cursing it before audiences across the worlds. When heavenly punishment descended on the Everlasting Immortal Sect, the terrified disciples fell silent and begged for mercy.

• Jiang Yantian watched from the void as the Ten Thousand Demons Banner’s resentment flowed into the altar and drove the gathered crowd into madness.
• People across the heavens and myriad worlds watched the projection, and many took the crowd’s curses as evidence that the Heavenly Dao was unjust.
• Jiang Yantian’s scheme put the Heavenly Dao in a dilemma: punishing the crowd would make it seem petty, while doing nothing would be taken as an admission of guilt.
• Heavenly punishment tore open a vast black hole above the Everlasting Immortal Sect and gathered into a sea of lightning aimed at the altar.
• The heavenly lightning crashed down, silencing the crowd as the Everlasting Immortal Sect’s disciples panicked, fled, and begged the Heavenly Dao to spare them.

Jiang Yantian let the Heavenly Dao’s punishment devastate the forbidden zone until the survivors were desperate, then revealed himself and sent the World-Destroying Black Dragon to shield them. The survivors realized the Devil Emperor had saved them, advancing Jiang Yantian’s plan to turn the world against the Heavenly Dao and win its faith.

• Li Fenghuai and the Everlasting Immortal Sect’s elders tried to defend their disciples from the heavenly lightning, while Ye Chen and Li Xuanji panicked because the forbidden zone’s mechanism had not activated.
• The Heavenly Dao’s lightning killed and injured cultivators indiscriminately, and observers across the world condemned the punishment as a massacre.
• Jiang Yantian watched the devastation and waited until the Everlasting Immortal Sect and other survivors had fallen into despair.
• Jiang Yantian shed his disguise and descended with the World-Destroying Black Dragon, which blocked the heavenly punishment with its body.
• The survivors recognized the Devil Emperor as their protector, while Jiang Yantian quietly welcomed the chance to expose the Heavenly Dao and gain the world’s faith.

Jiang Yantian stopped the Heavenly Dao’s divine lightning from destroying the Everlasting Immortal Sect, and the survivors hailed him as their savior. Ye Chen recognized the Emperor’s alleged scheme and accused him of orchestrating the disaster, but the crowd condemned Ye Chen while Jiang Yantian remained indifferent.

• Jiang Yantian appeared above the Everlasting Immortal Sect’s ruins on a vast black dragon and used Devil Qi to hold back and assimilate the divine lightning.
• The survivors praised Jiang Yantian for saving them, while Li Xuanji stared in disbelief at the Devil Emperor’s intervention.
• Ye Chen realized that Jiang Yantian had allegedly created the storybook and led them to build the altar that summoned heavenly punishment.
• Ye Chen accused Jiang Yantian of staging the entire disaster, but Elder Lian and the others cursed him and dismissed his claims.
• The crowd turned against Ye Chen, fearing his accusations would anger Jiang Yantian, who continued to ignore the scene below.

Ye Chen and Li Xuanji accused Jiang Yantian of using storybooks to manipulate events, while Jiang Yantian publicly denounced the Heavenly Dao as indiscriminate and claimed to protect the forbidden zone's people. After blocking the divine punishment, he summoned the Ten Thousand Demons Banner and invited everyone into it.

• Li Xuanji showed his storybook and joined Ye Chen in accusing Jiang Yantian of orchestrating events to make himself seem like the people's protector.
• Ye Chen rejoiced that Li Xuanji believed him, while Li Xuanji objected to Ye Chen calling him “Ji.”
• Jiang Yantian told the onlookers he would judge the forbidden zone's people himself and condemned the Heavenly Dao for threatening them all with extermination.
• Jiang Yantian argued that even faithful believers could be destroyed at the Heavenly Dao's whim, stirring fear among the onlookers.
• Jiang Yantian raised demonic Qi to block the divine punishment, then swept out the Ten Thousand Demons Banner and invited everyone inside.

Jiang Yantian revealed that his apparent mercy had been a performance, then threatened to kill everyone after Ye Chen exposed his scheme. He offered the survivors a chance to live by dividing into two camps and killing each other.

• Ye Chen celebrated proving that Jiang Yantian had been acting, but the others blamed him for exposing the truth.
• Jiang Yantian confirmed Ye Chen was right and declared that everyone would die to conceal his loss of face.
• Li Fenghuai, Bi Liushui, the sect master's wife, and the surviving elders and disciples begged Jiang Yantian for mercy, but he refused.
• Ye Chen demanded to know why Jiang Yantian had targeted him, and Jiang Yantian insulted his appearance and behavior.
• Jiang Yantian spared the survivors from immediate death and ordered them to split into two camps and kill each other, promising the winning side could leave.

Jiang Yantian forced the Everlasting Immortal Sect survivors to fight for survival, and the slaughter left the sect's factions turning on one another. Ye Chen and Li Xuanji hid among the corpses as the remaining leaders clashed, while Jiang Yantian watched.

• Li Fenghuai, Bi Liushui, the sect master's wife, and the surviving elders formed a strong faction, while the weaker survivors banded together and Ye Chen and Li Xuanji were left apart.
• Li Fenghuai led an attack on the weaker faction, and Ye Chen and Li Xuanji fought back when the crowd targeted them.
• Jiang Yantian watched as he recalled the Everlasting Immortal Sect's slaughter of the Devil Race and resolved that Ye Chen and Li Xuanji had to die.
• After the strong faction slaughtered the weak, its members turned on one another, and Li Fenghuai clashed with Bi Liushui and the sect master's wife.
• Ye Chen and Li Xuanji hid among the corpses while the remaining survivors fought over the ruins.

As Jiang Yantian’s slaughter continued, Li Xuanji and Ye Chen lay among the ruins, regretting the choices that had brought them there. Ye Chen, stirred by memories of lost love and an unexpected sense of kinship with Li Xuanji, sprang up and kissed him, leaving Li Xuanji stunned.

• Li Xuanji blamed Jiang Yantian, the storybook, and himself for the destruction of the Everlasting Immortal Sect, but stayed still and played dead to survive.
• Ye Chen accepted that he was about to die and regretted how his rebirth had ruined his reputation and left him without love.
• Ye Chen noticed Li Xuanji’s tears and felt a strange kinship with him, recalling the woman he had once let go.
• Ye Chen abandoned his restraint, leapt at Li Xuanji, and kissed him while Li Xuanji was still pretending to be dead.

Ye Chen and Li Xuanji abandoned their attempt to play dead and fought over who would take the lead in a desperate, unconventional expression of love. Their shocking behavior halted the battlefield and left the survivors watching as Jiang Yantian looked on with interest.

• Ye Chen pinned Li Xuanji down and kissed him while Jiang Yantian and the survivors stared in shock.
• Li Xuanji seized Ye Chen's ear, reversed their positions, and kissed him back with equal force.
• After they pulled apart, Ye Chen said he wanted to experience love before death and argued they should break convention completely.
• Li Xuanji rejected being called a girl and insisted Ye Chen should be the one given that label.
• The survivors stopped fighting to watch Ye Chen and Li Xuanji argue over who was the girl.

As the ruins’ survivors faced imminent destruction, Ye Chen and Li Xuanji rejected the world’s rules and openly made love while everyone watched. Their spectacle disgusted the onlookers, and a battle erupted around them, leaving the chaos unresolved.

• Ye Chen and Li Xuanji declared that they would ignore the world’s rules and live according to their desires, then agreed to make love in their final moments.
• Ye Chen and Li Xuanji kissed and began tearing at each other’s clothes as Jiang Yantian, Li Fenghuai, Bi Liushui, and the other survivors watched.
• Ji Chu and Yinshu left after witnessing the scene, while Jiang Yantian and the remaining onlookers recoiled in disgust.
• Bi Liushui slapped Li Fenghuai, and a great battle broke out as Bi Liushui launched Cold Surge Water Blades at Elder Lian and the others.
• Ye Chen and Li Xuanji continued their public embrace amid the fighting, earning five million Humiliation Points.

Jiang Yantian learned that ranks above the Heavenly Dao existed but remained focused on killing it and reaching the Demon Domain. After Elder Lian survived the battlefield and begged for mercy, Jiang Yantian told him to kill Ye Chen and Li Xuanji, leaving the contest for the last survivor unresolved.

• Jiang Yantian learned from the system that chaos, transcendence, taboo, and annihilation tiers stood above the Heavenly Dao, but he decided to kill the Heavenly Dao first.
• Jiang Yantian surveyed the battlefield and saw that Elder Lian had survived after Li Fenghuai, the sect master's wife, Bi Liushui, and Elder Wang had died.
• Elder Lian knelt before Jiang Yantian and declared himself a loyal servant, hoping to be spared as a witness to the battle's end.
• Jiang Yantian rejected Elder Lian's offer and pointed out that Ye Chen and Li Xuanji were still alive, ordering Elder Lian to attack them.
• Elder Lian regained hope and approached Ye Chen and Li Xuanji, intending to kill them and secure his place as the last survivor.

Ye Chen killed Elder Lian after he attacked, then stood with Li Xuanji to face Jiang Yantian. Jiang Yantian twisted their bodies together, summoned the Ten Thousand Demons Banner to consume the lingering souls at the Everlasting Immortal Sect, and eventually tore Ye Chen and Li Xuanji apart, leaving their Primordial Spirits behind.

• Elder Lian attacked Ye Chen and Li Xuanji, but Ye Chen broke free and decapitated him with a spirit sword.
• Ye Chen pulled Li Xuanji from the corpses, and the two challenged Jiang Yantian to kill them.
• Jiang Yantian twisted Ye Chen and Li Xuanji's bodies together and declared that their love would bind them forever within the Ten Thousand Demons Banner.
• Jiang Yantian summoned the Ten Thousand Demons Banner, which swallowed the lingering Primordial Spirits and remnant souls above the Everlasting Immortal Sect's ruins.
• Jiang Yantian tore Ye Chen and Li Xuanji's intertwined bodies apart in a bloody explosion, but their Primordial Spirits remained.

Jiang Yantian destroyed the Everlasting Immortal Sect and swallowed Ye Chen and Li Xuanji’s conjoined souls with the Ten Thousand Demons Banner. He then left for the Demon Domain with Ji Chu and Yinshu, who agreed to become his woman under a small condition.

• Jiang Yantian’s Ten Thousand Demons Banner swallowed Ye Chen and Li Xuanji’s conjoined Primordial Spirit, leaving the Everlasting Immortal Sect in ruins.
• Jiang Yantian dismissed the banner and departed with Ji Chu and Yinshu, the sect’s sole survivor.
• Jiang Yantian asked Yinshu to go with him, and she agreed to become his woman if he promised to be gentler when they were intimate.
• Jiang Yantian kissed Yinshu and set off toward the Ancient Demon Domain with her and Ji Chu.
• The Everlasting Immortal Sect’s signboard cracked and fell as the ruined sect stood silent.

Jiang Yantian took Ji Chu and Yinshu into the Demon Domain, guiding them through its ancient ruins and a dangerous maze of devil mist. At the domain’s entrance, he startled the already frightened women, then reassured them that nothing was wrong.

• Jiang Yantian transported Ji Chu and Yinshu to the desolate outskirts of the Demon Domain, where all three saw the ancient ruins.
• Jiang Yantian led the women into the black mist, which parted to form a safe passage for them.
• Ji Chu recognized that the strange path was a vast spatial maze, while Jiang Yantian told them they were simply going home.
• The trio reached a vast spatial rift marking the true entrance to the Demon Domain, and Ji Chu and Yinshu felt instinctive dread.
• Jiang Yantian deliberately shouted to frighten the women, who clung to him before realizing he had teased them.

Jiang Yantian led Yinshu and Ji Chu into the Demon Domain’s core, where they discovered a vast, beautiful realm divided into a life-sustaining Yang Domain and a warlike Yin Domain. The core city was empty because its inhabitants had been sealed in the Eternally Silent Black Abyss, and Jiang Yantian took the women to explore its strange buildings and shops.

• Jiang Yantian took Yinshu and Ji Chu through the spatial rift into the Demon Domain’s core.
• Yinshu and Ji Chu were astonished by the core’s starry sky, verdant mountains, and magnificent floating cities.
• Jiang Yantian surveyed the Demon Domain and understood that its Yang Domain sustained life while its Yin Domain served as a battlefield.
• Jiang Yantian realized that the core was empty because he had sealed its survivors in the Eternally Silent Black Abyss to protect them from the Heavenly Dao.
• Jiang Yantian explored the silent city with Yinshu and Ji Chu, who marveled at unfamiliar places such as a five-star hotel, a foot massage center, and a supermarket.

Jiang Yantian turned the deserted Moon Bay Footwashing City into a private foot-wash outing and asked Ji Chu and Yinshu to play along as technicians. The women entered his room in their unusual outfits and greeted him, beginning the service.

• Jiang Yantian suggested that Ji Chu and Yinshu give him a foot wash and described how he wanted them to act.
• Jiang Yantian produced revealing work uniforms and carrying cases for the two women, then ran into a private room.
• Yinshu and Ji Chu examined the outfits and tools, and Yinshu found a case labeled the rich lady's happiness kit.
• Jiang Yantian rushed back, took the happiness kit from Yinshu, and replaced it with another case before fleeing into the room.
• Jiang Yantian cleaned the room with Devil Qi, changed into flashy casual clothes, and reclined on the chair.
• Ji Chu and Yinshu entered and introduced themselves as technicians seventeen and eighteen.

Jiang Yantian was enjoying a massage from Yinshu and Ji Chu when a familiar voice called him “Husband” from within his soul. He left them safely behind and rushed toward the Eternally Silent Black Abyss, where he suspected the voice had come from.

• Yinshu and Ji Chu entered in their work uniforms and massaged Jiang Yantian while trading playful banter with him.
• Jiang Yantian heard a faint, familiar voice calling him “Husband” and abruptly stopped the massage.
• Jiang Yantian told Yinshu and Ji Chu to wait for him, changed into his imperial robe, and vanished from the Demon Domain.
• Jiang Yantian sensed that the voice came from the Eternally Silent Black Abyss and teleported toward it.
• Jiang Yantian reached the Yin Domain, a desolate region of black mountains and flowing lava.

Jiang Yantian entered the Eternally Silent Black Abyss and discovered his ancient followers frozen in the moment a destructive palm threatened to annihilate them. He realized he had to defeat the paused battle himself to unseal his subordinates, and a devil general recognized him as the battlefield resumed.

• Jiang Yantian stepped into the Eternally Silent Black Abyss and walked through its colorless, timeless expanse.
• Jiang Yantian found frozen projections of his ancient followers and reached the scene of a massive palm about to crush them.
• Jiang Yantian touched the frozen palm with his finger, causing the sealed battlefield to thaw and resume.
• Jiang Yantian recovered memories and understood that he had frozen and sealed the battlefield, and that he had to win the battle to revive his subordinates.
• A devil general near Jiang Yantian recognized him and shouted, "Your Majesty!"

Jiang Yantian appeared on the ancient battlefield and shattered the Heavenly Dao’s enormous palm, saving the Devil Race warriors. He commanded their reverence and began using Demon Kingdom in the Palm to remake the battlefield by drawing it into his own realm.

• Jiang Yantian told the panicked Devil Race warriors that the Heavenly Dao’s attack was only one hand.
• Jiang Yantian met the enormous palm with his own and broke apart its laws, dispelling the chaos rift and restoring the light.
• The surviving Devil Race warriors, war beasts, and billions of living beings knelt in silence before Jiang Yantian.
• Jiang Yantian raised his hand and used Demon Kingdom in the Palm to envelop the battlefield in a realm governed by his will.

Jiang Yantian used the Devil Emperor’s origin imprints to gather and forge the countless frozen spacetime fragments into a new Demon Kingdom. After most of the images vanished, he noticed a few remaining scenes that appeared to show a secluded residence.

• Jiang Yantian realized he could not collect the countless frozen fragments one by one and asked the system for a method.
• The system explained how Jiang Yantian could ignite the Imperishable Devil Emperor’s origin imprints and draw the fragments together.
• Jiang Yantian awakened the imprints across the Eternally Silent Black Abyss and pulled the spacetime fragments toward him.
• Jiang Yantian forged the gathered fragments, Devil Race beings, and his original divine ability into the Demon Kingdom.
• Jiang Yantian saw that a few frozen images remained and stepped closer to examine the scenes of a secluded residence.

Jiang Yantian entered the private instance The Lost Sound of Strings to recover the sealed soul imprints of his ancient-era wives, arriving at the Clear Waves Realm in the past. He reached Clear Waves City and began looking around, with no guidance from the system.

• Jiang Yantian learned the instance held his wives’ sealed soul imprints and that completing it would restore their true spirits.
• After confirming that only two hours would pass in the main world, Jiang Yantian opened the instance and was transported to the Summit of Rosy Clouds Mountain in the ancient era.
• Jiang Yantian found himself in the Clear Waves Realm, decided to follow fate rather than search blindly, and headed toward a nearby capital.
• Jiang Yantian entered Clear Waves City, noticed Demon Race and Witch Race inhabitants living together, and snapped at a cultivator who stared at him.

Jiang Yantian went to the Heavenly Sound Pavilion after hearing Fairy Worry-Free’s zither music and met Ji Yu, who offered him a Sound-Listening Token for five hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones. Jiang Yantian agreed to buy it, leaving Ji Yu stunned.

• Jiang Yantian followed the zither music to the Heavenly Sound Pavilion and decided to enter.
• Ji Yu intercepted Jiang Yantian and warned him that he needed a Sound-Listening Token to get inside.
• Ji Yu offered to sell Jiang Yantian his token for five hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• Jiang Yantian recognized Ji Yu as a scalper and casually agreed to buy the token, surprising him.