Recaps

Jiang Yantian prepared a lavish bathing pool above the chaotic Canglan Dao Sect and brought Mei Yanluo and reluctant Yan Miaoxi to join him. He began offering them bizarre bath services, leaving both women startled by his explanation of the most expensive option.

• Mei Yanluo told Jiang Yantian that Yan Miaoxi had agreed to bathe, though Yan Miaoxi immediately denied it.
• Jiang Yantian ignored Yan Miaoxi's protests and hurried to prepare a bathing pool; Mei Yanluo persuaded Yan Miaoxi to stay by warning that he would chase her to the War Ruins Royal Clan if she left.
• Jiang Yantian formed a pool atop the Canglan Dao Sect's highest rear mountain while its disciples fled amid the destruction, then arranged food, wine, music, and other comforts.
• Mei Yanluo dragged Yan Miaoxi to the pool, where Jiang Yantian welcomed them and offered a menu of bathing services.
• Jiang Yantian explained that the priciest service let the women choose an item, such as a whip, to lash him, and Mei Yanluo and Yan Miaoxi choked in surprise.

Jiang Yantian prepared a Spiritual Qi bath and massaged Mei Yanluo while Yan Miaoxi refused to join them. When he tried to massage Yan Miaoxi’s feet, she resisted until he removed one of her boots and pressed an acupoint, leaving her too overwhelmed to fight back.

• Jiang Yantian invited Mei Yanluo and Yan Miaoxi to bathe while promising to serve them from the pool’s edge.
• Yan Miaoxi declined and sat on a warm jade reclining chair as Mei Yanluo entered the pool.
• Jiang Yantian massaged Mei Yanluo until she relaxed and grew drowsy, then she urged him to massage Yan Miaoxi.
• Yan Miaoxi refused, but Jiang Yantian seized her ankle and removed one of her battle boots.
• Yan Miaoxi erupted in phoenix flames, but Jiang Yantian pressed the Yongquan acupoint on her sole, making her go limp and endure the massage in mortified silence.

Jiang Yantian told Yan Miaoxi that he did not know his cultivation level, though he claimed he had defeated the Heavenly Dao and might once have been called Nirvana Grade. Mei Yanluo believed he was at least Taboo Grade, while Jiang remained unaware of his true limits and focused on enjoying himself.

• Yan Miaoxi asked Jiang Yantian about his cultivation, and he said he no longer knew his realm after reaching Daluo Divine Immortal Perfection.
• Jiang claimed he could kill Dao Ancestors and Immortal Venerables with a slap and had defeated the Heavenly Dao with a few divine abilities.
• Yan Miaoxi wondered whether Jiang was a Hundun Supreme, but he said someone had once called him Nirvana Grade.
• Yan Miaoxi struggled to believe Jiang’s claims, while Mei Yanluo listened from the bath and concluded that he might genuinely be unaware of his overwhelming strength.
• Mei Yanluo reasoned that Jiang was at least Taboo Grade and that his comfortable life had left him without a way to gauge his limits.

Jiang Yantian used a bogus massage theory to persuade Yan Miaoxi to let him continue touching her, while Mei Yanluo backed up his claims. He secretly planned to use a cultivation-boosting talisman during the massage, leaving Yan Miaoxi unaware of his real intentions.

• Jiang Yantian claimed that stopping Yan Miaoxi’s massage partway through would cause dangerous karmic backlash and meridian problems.
• Yan Miaoxi caught Jiang Yantian’s hands moving from her abdomen toward her chest and angrily warned him not to go any farther.
• Jiang Yantian insisted that massaging her chest was necessary to circulate Qi, and Mei Yanluo supported his explanation from the bathing pool.
• Yan Miaoxi reluctantly agreed to let Jiang Yantian continue the massage.
• Jiang Yantian decided to exchange Humiliation Points for a Dao-Treading Tier-Ascension Talisman and merge it into his palms.

Jiang Yantian’s massage sent Yan Miaoxi into a major breakthrough, transforming her into a divine phoenix whose flames devastated the Canglan Dao Sect and its surroundings. As he and Mei Yanluo watched from a protective barrier, Jiang Yantian speculated that he had been separated from his wives by a hundred million years and reincarnation.

• Jiang Yantian used the Dao-Treading Tier-Ascension Talisman while massaging Yan Miaoxi, triggering her breakthrough to the hunyuan wuji middle stage.
• Yan Miaoxi erupted in Phoenix True Fire, and her breakthrough’s destructive power erased the Canglan Dao Sect and began melting a nearby divine peak.
• Mei Yanluo joined Jiang Yantian in a barrier, asked for a massage, and watched Yan Miaoxi’s divine phoenix form emerge amid the flames.
• Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo ate Bai Ze meat as they discussed the future era and the World-Destruction War.
• Jiang Yantian told Mei Yanluo he suspected they had died in ancient times and reunited after a hundred million years, leaving her confused.

As Yan Miaoxi underwent her phoenix nirvana, Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo watched from a protected retreat, where Mei Yanluo asked him to accompany her back to the Nine Netherworlds. Their conversation turned into an argument over his plans to find his other wives, and the chapter ended with Mei Yanluo demanding a clear answer.

• Yan Miaoxi continued her crucial nirvana rebirth as a sea of flames and lava engulfed the surrounding land.
• Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo set up a barrier and rested while they watched Yan Miaoxi's breakthrough.
• Mei Yanluo said she planned to return to the Nine Netherworlds soon to address problems within the Shadow Charm Clan and invited Jiang Yantian to come with her.
• Jiang Yantian suggested he would follow later, prompting Mei Yanluo to accuse him of wanting to pursue other women.
• Jiang Yantian claimed he had only wanted to give Mei Yanluo time to adjust, but she called out his habit of approaching attractive women and naming them his wives.
• Mei Yanluo leaned close and demanded to know whether Jiang Yantian would accompany her to the Nine Netherworlds.

Jiang Yantian teased Mei Yanluo while Yan Miaoxi absorbed energy and neared the end of her breakthrough. As a crack opened in Yan Miaoxi’s crimson-gold cocoon, Jiang Yantian planned an outrageous welcome for her return.

• Mei Yanluo pinched Jiang Yantian’s ear until he agreed to go, then sat on his lap and coaxed him with affection.
• Jiang Yantian described an absurd lesson in “geography” while Mei Yanluo listened and eventually understood his meaning.
• Yan Miaoxi heard and saw their antics as she absorbed energy, found her breakthrough unusually smooth, and continued building toward completion.
• A phoenix cry rang out as Yan Miaoxi’s sea of flames condensed into a crimson-gold cocoon, and a crack appeared in its surface.
• Jiang Yantian told Mei Yanluo to welcome Yan Miaoxi with grandiose praise, but Mei Yanluo warned that Yan Miaoxi would beat him for it.

Yan Miaoxi broke through to the Hunyuan Wuji Middle Stage, then prepared to return to the War Ruins Royal Clan to stabilize her War Phoenix bloodline. Before leaving, she promised Jiang Yantian she would visit again, while asking Mei Yanluo to keep an eye on him.

• Yan Miaoxi emerged from her shattered cocoon after reaching the Hunyuan Wuji Middle Stage, and Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo reacted to her transformation.
• Yan Miaoxi stopped Jiang Yantian from making a grand announcement, but he called her the Phoenix Sovereign anyway, prompting Mei Yanluo to join in with mock scolding.
• Jiang Yantian noticed Yan Miaoxi's conflicted feelings and encouraged her to leave for her urgent business without worrying about him.
• Yan Miaoxi explained that she needed the Phoenix Vein Sacred Spring in the War Ruins Royal Clan's ancestral shrine to stabilize her newly awakened bloodline.
• Yan Miaoxi promised to return after stabilizing her foundation and settling clan affairs, and Mei Yanluo agreed to keep an eye on Jiang Yantian as she left.

Jiang Yantian wandered with Mei Yanluo, hoping to take her sightseeing, but admitted he did not know where to go. Mei Yanluo explained that his Nine Netherworlds Death Qi drove fish away, finally revealing why his fishing trips always ended empty-handed, before the two kissed passionately as another pair of Dao companions watched from afar.

• Jiang Yantian called after the departing woman and received a shy promise that she would visit him for massages, then teased Mei Yanluo about having trained his wife.
• Jiang Yantian took Mei Yanluo wandering, but confessed he did not know the way and suggested fishing instead.
• Mei Yanluo explained that Jiang Yantian's Nine Netherworlds Death Qi contaminated the water and drove spiritually aware fish away.
• Jiang Yantian realized his own presence had caused his empty-handed fishing trips, while Mei Yanluo teased him for boasting about his skills.
• Jiang Yantian kissed Mei Yanluo when she mocked him, and she eagerly embraced and kissed him back as another pair of Dao companions watched.

Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou encountered Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo while trying to rekindle their relationship, and their jealousy turned toward the kissing couple. Mei Yanluo learned they might seek revenge, but treated the pair as insignificant while trusting Jiang Yantian had given them reason to hate him.

• Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou revisited the mountain path where they had once pledged their love, but their strained relationship and Wang Jiaorou's foul breath made the journey miserable.
• Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou saw Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo kissing above them and blamed the couple for their humiliation and jealousy.
• Wang Jiaorou demanded that they make both Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo pay, while Chen Zheng insisted Mei Yanluo was innocent and denied being attracted to her.
• Mei Yanluo stopped kissing Jiang Yantian and asked who the arguing pair were, and Jiang Yantian said they might be there to take revenge on him.
• Mei Yanluo laughed at the idea of the pair threatening Jiang Yantian and concluded that he had probably wronged them first.

Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo ran into Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou in the wilderness and mocked their strained relationship with false praise and unsolicited advice. Chen Zheng tried to leave before the encounter turned into something worse.

• Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo decided to approach Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou after spotting them arguing in the mountains.
• Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou froze in fear as Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo descended before them.
• Jiang Yantian greeted Chen Zheng and Fairy Worry-Free and sarcastically praised them as a loving couple.
• Jiang Yantian introduced Wang Jiaorou as a woman who sold herself while singing and called Chen Zheng the Great Whoremonger of the Wilderness.
• Mei Yanluo urged Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou to forgive each other's mistakes and start anew, leaving them humiliated and speechless.
• Chen Zheng claimed they had only come for a walk and tried to leave with Wang Jiaorou.

Jiang Yantian forced Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou to continue toward Clear Waves City under threat, claiming he would help repair their relationship through hardship. As they set off, he began summoning beasts with his Nine Netherworld powers, leaving the mountain range shaking.

• Chen Zheng tried to leave with Wang Jiaorou, but Jiang Yantian blocked their path and insisted they stay.
• Jiang Yantian blamed Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou’s long-distance relationship for its troubles and declared he would arrange trials to help them mend it.
• Mei Yanluo threatened to kill them and imprison their souls if they took a step back, so Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou reluctantly headed toward Clear Waves City.
• Jiang Yantian revealed his title as the Beast-Taming Emperor and began using his power to summon beasts from the Nine Netherworlds.
• The summoned power sent black ripples across the mountains, shaking the earth and bringing rocks and trees crashing down as Chen Zheng seethed helplessly.

A beast tide erupted around Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou, forcing them to flee through the mountains while Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo watched from above. Chen Zheng carried Wang Jiaorou as he fought through the beasts, and their desperate escape continued with no end in sight.

• Chen Zheng refused Wang Jiaorou's suggestion to teleport away and prepared to fight as the ground split and monsters surrounded them.
• Chen Zheng grabbed Wang Jiaorou and ran as a huge maw snapped shut where they had stood, while the beast tide pursued them.
• Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo followed from the sky and watched the pair's flight.
• Chen Zheng fought off waves of beasts while dragging Wang Jiaorou, who could only scream and slow him down.
• After killing a Sky-Hunting Shadow Leopard, Chen Zheng hoisted Wang Jiaorou over his shoulder and kept running through the endless tide.

Chen Zheng struggled to protect Wang Jiaorou from the beast tide as Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo watched, but Mei Yanluo unleashed the Qi of the Nine Netherworlds and weakened him. Wang Jiaorou panicked and clung to him, making his fight even harder, while Mei Yanluo asked Jiang Yantian whether she had always been so peculiar.

• Jiang Yantian tempted Chen Zheng to abandon Wang Jiaorou, but Chen Zheng kept carrying her and fighting through the beasts.
• Mei Yanluo swept her hand through the air and engulfed Chen Zheng in the eroding Qi of the Nine Netherworlds.
• Chen Zheng's protective golden light weakened as Death Qi slowed his Immortal Essence and left him staggering beneath the beast attacks.
• Wang Jiaorou accused Chen Zheng of pretending to be weak so he could abandon her, then clung tightly around his neck in terror.
• Chen Zheng struggled to fend off the beasts while Wang Jiaorou begged him to protect her, and Mei Yanluo asked Jiang Yantian if Wang Jiaorou had always behaved that way.

Jiang Yantian explained Wang Jiaorou’s selfish behavior to Mei Yanluo, who grew furious after learning that Wang Jiaorou had disparaged Eldest Miss Yan for saving her. As Wang Jiaorou clung to Chen Zheng and demanded his protection during the beast tide, Chen Zheng considered abandoning her, while Jiang Yantian planned to make someone else abandon her.

• Jiang Yantian described Wang Jiaorou as compassionate only when safe and selfish during crises, and Mei Yanluo recognized the pattern.
• Jiang Yantian told Mei Yanluo that Eldest Miss Yan had saved Wang Jiaorou, who later criticized her for killing their enemies.
• Mei Yanluo attacked Wang Jiaorou with skeletal spirits made of Death Qi, which clung to her and frightened her.
• Wang Jiaorou demanded that Chen Zheng share his protection, blamed him for their danger, and refused to stop clinging to him.
• Chen Zheng grew furious and considered throwing Wang Jiaorou to the beasts, while Jiang Yantian said he would make someone abandon her.

Jiang Yantian intensified the chaotic beast tide, causing Chen Zheng to lose control and throw Wang Jiaorou into the horde. Wang Jiaorou survived among the beasts and seethed with hatred for Chen Zheng as Jiang Yantian asked whether she hated him.

• Chen Zheng struggled to flee with Wang Jiaorou while she screamed at him to run faster, and he angrily cursed her.
• Jiang Yantian sent chaotic Qi into the beast tide, driving the beasts and the ghost spirits into a frenzy.
• The chaotic Qi also clouded Chen Zheng's mind, making him mistake Wang Jiaorou for a monster and hurl her into the horde.
• Wang Jiaorou hit the ground and cursed Chen Zheng, vowing that her resentment would claim his life.
• The beasts surrounded Wang Jiaorou without attacking, and Jiang Yantian approached her and asked whether she hated Chen Zheng.

Wang Jiaorou gained control of the beast horde from Jiang Yantian and set out to kill Chen Zheng, while Chen Zheng turned back to rescue her. They confronted each other as Wang Jiaorou declared her revenge and attacked.

• Wang Jiaorou directed her hatred at Chen Zheng and vowed to destroy his life and reputation.
• Jiang Yantian gave Wang Jiaorou control of the beast horde, and she rode its tiger king after Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng realized Wang Jiaorou was missing, turned back toward the beast tide, and prepared to fight.
• Wang Jiaorou arrived with the beast horde, and Chen Zheng mistook her for a hostage he needed to save.
• Wang Jiaorou condemned Chen Zheng for abandoning her, declared herself Sister Wang, and attacked him.

Wang Jiaorou accused Chen Zheng of throwing her into the beast horde and ordered the beasts to kill him, while Chen Zheng believed she had been controlled and fought to survive. Above them, Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo wagered on who would win as Chen Zheng decided to attack the Tiger King.

• Chen Zheng insisted he had turned back to save Wang Jiaorou, but she accused him of throwing her into the beast horde and vowed to kill him.
• The Tiger King roared, sending the beast tide into a frenzy, and Wang Jiaorou commanded the beasts to tear Chen Zheng apart.
• Chen Zheng fought off the attackers with his twin swords, but the endless horde began to overwhelm him.
• Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo wagered on whether Wang Jiaorou or Chen Zheng would win, with Mei Yanluo betting on Wang Jiaorou and Jiang Yantian betting on Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng decided to kill the Tiger King, believing that would scatter the beasts and free Wang Jiaorou from whatever had supposedly controlled her.

Chen Zheng charged through the beast tide to reach Wang Jiaorou and the Tiger King, but her suspicions drove the battle onward. After wounding the Tiger King with a sliding tackle, he was caught off guard by its flaming tail and smashed into a mountainside as Wang Jiaorou ordered the beasts to charge.

• Chen Zheng shifted from fighting the beast tide to dodging its attacks and charging at Wang Jiaorou and the Tiger King, while Wang Jiaorou accused him of trying to kill her and urged the Tiger King to attack.
• Chen Zheng evaded the beasts’ assaults, rushed beneath the Tiger King, and slashed its belly with his greatsword using a sliding tackle.
• Chen Zheng mocked the wounded Tiger King and struck a triumphant pose, but the Tiger King swept its flaming tail into his lower back and sent him crashing into a mountainside.
• Wang Jiaorou ordered the beasts to charge while Chen Zheng, trapped in the rock, accused her of betraying his attempt to save her.

After Jiang Yantian used a sound technique to send the beast tide fleeing, Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou blamed each other for the apparent betrayal. Chen Zheng tried to persuade her to escape with him, then seized her wrist when she refused, insisting they had both been manipulated.

• Jiang Yantian secretly used Nine Netherworlds Brahma Sound to make the beast tide turn and flee, throwing Wang Jiaorou off the Tiger King.
• Chen Zheng confronted Wang Jiaorou, accusing her of trying to kill him, while she insisted he had abandoned her.
• Chen Zheng suspected the silver-haired man watching from above had manipulated them and temporarily given Wang Jiaorou control over the beasts.
• Chen Zheng urged Wang Jiaorou to leave with him so they could find his master, but she refused and accused him of plotting to kill her.
• Chen Zheng lunged at Wang Jiaorou, seized her wrist, and insisted they had both been controlled and used.

Chen Zheng fled with Wang Jiaorou after Jiang Yantian and Mei Yanluo let them escape, deciding to seek help from his master, the God of the Future. He teleported toward her secluded sanctuary, convinced she could deal with Jiang Yantian.

• Chen Zheng forcibly dragged Wang Jiaorou away as she screamed for help, while Mei Yanluo teased Jiang Yantian and he refused to intervene.
• Mei Yanluo and Jiang Yantian left together, choosing to pursue their own amusement rather than follow Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou.
• Chen Zheng recalled that his master was a powerful seer known as the God of the Future and decided to ask her to resolve his entanglement with Jiang Yantian.
• After fleeing far from the mountain range, Chen Zheng used a teleportation technique to carry Wang Jiaorou toward his master's secluded land.
• Wang Jiaorou continued threatening Chen Zheng, while he hurried toward the sanctuary and insisted that his master could defeat anyone.

Chen Zheng dragged Wang Jiaorou into Sunken Ruins Abyss, hoping his master Beiming Yu could protect them from the silver-haired devil. After recalling his master's prophecy that bringing his calamity-bringer into the abyss would resolve their fate, he led Wang Jiaorou deeper into the deadly realm to find her.

• Chen Zheng brought the struggling Wang Jiaorou to the hidden entrance of Sunken Ruins Abyss and opened it with a spatial hand seal.
• Inside the chaotic void, Wang Jiaorou tried to flee, so Chen Zheng slapped her and warned her that the unstable rocks and suppressed powers made the realm deadly.
• When a rock collapsed beneath Wang Jiaorou, she grabbed Chen Zheng in terror, and he pulled her onto a safe rock.
• Chen Zheng remembered that Beiming Yu had foretold a tribulation-bound calamity and instructed him to bring the person who caused it into Sunken Ruins Abyss.
• Chen Zheng seized Wang Jiaorou's wrist and led her toward Beiming Yu.

Chen Zheng brought Wang Jiaorou to Beiming Yu’s secluded Peach Blossom Hollow and reported how Jiang Yantian had pursued them. Beiming Yu refused to intervene until Jiang Yantian came to her, then sent Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou away as she waited for his arrival.

• Beiming Yu opened a path through the Chaos Qi, allowing Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou to reach the barrier around Peach Blossom Hollow.
• Chen Zheng reported his conflict with Jiang Yantian and said Jiang had returned toward Clear Waves City with a captivating woman.
• Beiming Yu asked whether Jiang had followed Chen Zheng and said she would not act until Jiang came to see her.
• Beiming Yu told Chen Zheng that Wang Jiaorou was well matched with him but had offended someone dangerous, prompting Wang Jiaorou to boast about her older sister in the War Ruins Royal Clan.
• Chen Zheng rebuked Wang Jiaorou and hurried away with her while Beiming Yu closed her eyes and waited for Jiang Yantian.

Chen Zheng left the Sunken Ruins Abyss with Beiming Yu's demand to lure Jiang Yantian there as his only chance to survive, while Wang Jiaorou planned to seek Yan Miaoxi's protection. In Clear Waves City, Jiang Yantian speculated about Chen Zheng's hidden connections before turning his attention to Mei Yanluo.

• Chen Zheng accepted that Beiming Yu would only intervene if he brought Jiang Yantian to the Sunken Ruins Abyss, though he doubted he could lure him there.
• Wang Jiaorou silently endured her humiliation and resolved to find Yan Miaoxi and ask her to punish those who had wronged her.
• Jiang Yantian wondered whether Chen Zheng had a powerful figure behind him while he waited for Mei Yanluo at Billowing Gate Pavilion.
• Mei Yanluo teased Jiang Yantian about his lecherous nature, then reminded him that she had lost their wager.
• Jiang Yantian pulled Mei Yanluo into his arms, and they spent the night together while Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou traveled toward Clear Waves City.

Chen Zheng and Wang Jiaorou reached the Billowing Gate Pavilion, where Wang Jiaorou used his spirit stones to enter while he was turned away. Humiliated and enraged, Chen Zheng struck the attendant and entered, only to be surrounded by powerful experts.

• Chen Zheng urged Wang Jiaorou to stay at an ordinary inn, but she insisted on the Billowing Gate Pavilion and scorned him.
• The attendant barred Chen Zheng from entering, but let Wang Jiaorou in after recognizing her; she took Chen Zheng's spirit stones to pay and left him outside.
• Chen Zheng's humiliation and anger boiled over, and he demanded to enter after Wang Jiaorou.
• When the attendant threatened him, Chen Zheng slapped him hard, knocking him into a pillar and sending several teeth flying.
• Chen Zheng crossed into the pavilion, where powerful experts appeared and surrounded him.