Recaps

Ye Qinghuang explained that Ultimate Evil might soon escape its seal, prompting the Pill Ancestor Grand Gathering to find an alchemist who could help defend the Human Race. Lu Wentian began outlining the gathering’s rules, and his next words left the assembled powerhouses stunned.

• Those gathered recognized Ao Cangqiong as a prodigy who had reached the Half-Step Realm of Hongmeng and displayed transcendent intent.
• Ye Qinghuang announced that Ultimate Evil could break free within months or, at most, a hundred years, bringing powerful Grudge Demons and deadly poisons.
• Ye Qinghuang said the Pill Ancestor Grand Gathering had been organized to find an alchemy master who could help protect the Human Race during the coming war.
• Ye Qinghuang invited Lu Wentian to explain the gathering’s requirements and procedures.
• Lu Wentian began explaining the rules, and his words left the assembled powerhouses dumbstruck.

Lu Wentian announced that the Pill Ancestor Grand Gathering would test participants through identifying rare medicinal herbs, neutralizing poisons, and refining an antidote pill. The winner would still have to defeat all challengers to earn the Heavenly Mandate’s blessing and become the true Heavenly Mandate Pill Ancestor.

• Lu Wentian explained that the gathering would combine three trials: identifying medicinal properties, neutralizing poisons, and refining divine pills.
• Lu Wentian said the ancestors would provide rare herbs and deadly poisons, with their identities and medicinal properties recorded on talismans held by Ye Qinghuang.
• Lu Wentian announced that participants must identify the most poisonous substance and use the supplied herbs to refine a pill that neutralized it.
• Lu Wentian revealed that the winner would need to accept challenges from everyone who refused to concede and emerge victorious to receive the Heavenly Mandate’s blessing.
• The powerhouses in the Azure Heaven Pavilion were stunned by the demanding contest rules.

Lu Wentian announced the Pill Ancestor Grand Gathering’s rules, including the Azure Heaven Realm minimum and a chance for one later challenge, then opened the contest by displaying mysterious medicines and poisons. A contestant began identifying them, but when the white-haired elder handled a radiant golden plant, a piercing scream shocked the spectators.

• Lu Wentian explained that contestants needed at least Azure Heaven Realm cultivation, while weaker alchemy experts could challenge the Pill Ancestor once after the gathering.
• Lu Wentian opened the gathering and displayed divine medicinal plants and supreme poisons, warning contestants not to judge them by appearances.
• Several contestants stepped onto the platform, and a white-haired elder identified a snowlike plant as the Chaos Snow Soul.
• Ye Qinghuang said she would reveal whether the contestants’ identifications were correct after they had examined all the plants and poisons.
• The white-haired elder picked up a radiant golden medicinal plant, and a piercing scream horrified the spectators.

At the Azure Heaven Pavilion, Tianyangzi loses his right arm after a poisonous herb disguised as a divine herb corrodes it, forcing him to give up competing for the title of Pill Ancestor. Just as Ye Qinghuang announces his withdrawal, another agonized scream throws the hall into an uproar.

• Tianyangzi touches a golden herb, and black liquid corrodes his hand to the bone before spreading up his arm.
• Tianyangzi chops off his right arm to stop the poison and survives, while the gathered factions identify him as the master of the Mystic Cauldron Pill Sect.
• Tianyangzi leaves the platform, forfeiting his chance to compete for the title of Pill Ancestor.
• Ye Qinghuang begins announcing Tianyangzi's withdrawal, but a sudden scream interrupts her and shocks everyone in the Azure Heaven Pavilion.

After Tianyangzi died from the Nine Netherworlds Immortal Lotus’s poison, Elder Yao identified it and explained the properties of the herbs and poisons on the platform. His revelations stirred the pill experts and set the stage for a new confrontation, ending with the spectators anticipating a spectacle.

• Tianyangzi was engulfed by the lotus’s black poison and turned to ashes despite severing his right arm.
• Elder Yao identified the plant as the Nine Netherworlds Immortal Lotus and explained that its poison could not be cured.
• Elder Yao identified the Moon-Congealed Radiance Plant and described its powerful effects on cultivation and Dao enlightenment.
• Elder Yao named the remaining herbs and poisonous plants on the platform, revealing divine herbs hidden among the poisons.
• The pill experts’ interest intensified, and the gathered spectators reacted with horror and anticipation at what would happen next.

Elder Yao’s words were echoed by the other pill Dao powerhouses, and Ye Qinghuang began the final divine pill refinement event after confirming their ingredient identifications were correct. The pill masters summoned their furnaces, while Elder Yao remained still and revealed a flash of killing intent before preparing to act.

• The pill Dao powerhouses on the platform repeated Elder Yao’s ingredient identifications, and Saint Buddha Jiewu confirmed them with Buddhist characters.
• Elder Yao watched Saint Buddha Jiewu and concealed a flash of heaven-shaking killing intent.
• Ye Qinghuang announced that the pill masters had correctly identified the ingredients and ordered them to refine antidotes for the Nine Netherworlds Immortal Lotus.
• The pill masters summoned their life-bound furnaces, and Saint Buddha Jiewu and the Taiyi Pill Cloud Palace powerhouse brought out their own extraordinary furnaces.
• Elder Yao remained motionless as the others prepared, then slowly straightened and spoke, astonishing everyone in Azure Heaven Pavilion.

Elder Yao displayed his supreme alchemy skill by refining a nine-colored divine pill from the Laws of the Great Dao, which summoned a lightning tribulation. As Elder Yao took the pill while the tribulation gathered, Ye Xingchen recognized that he had revealed his true intentions.

• Elder Yao declared that the pinnacle of pill refinement required using heaven and earth as a furnace and the myriad Daos as a cauldron.
• Ye Xingchen secretly placed the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array outside Xue Xianfei's private room.
• Elder Yao formed a golden furnace from the Laws of the Great Dao and refined the divine herbs into a crystal-clear, nine-colored pill.
• A dark dragon manifested from the furnace before the pill triggered a lightning tribulation outside the Azure Heaven Pavilion.
• Elder Yao summoned the pill into his hand as the tribulation gathered, prompting Ye Xingchen to sneer that Elder Yao had revealed his fox's tail.

Elder Yao destroyed the divine pill he had refined, then revealed that he had used its fragrance and the Nine Netherworlds Immortal Lotus to poison everyone at the Pill Ancestor Grand Gathering with God-Locking Incense. He claimed nobody could neutralize the poison, but abruptly reacted in disbelief, leaving the result unclear.

• Elder Yao shattered the nine-marked divine pill in his palm, and the pill tribulation receded as the pavilion’s experts watched in shock.
• Elder Yao laughed, straightened his hunched body, and revealed that he had named the ingredients to keep the other alchemists on the platform while his poison took effect.
• Elder Yao dismissed Saint Buddha Jiewu’s attempt to protect himself and pointed out that the experts could no longer mobilize their Divine Power.
• Elder Yao explained that the pill was called Immortal Severing and that its scent, mingled with the Nine Netherworlds Immortal Lotus, had formed the poison God-Locking Incense.
• Elder Yao boasted that no one, not even the Heavenly Mandate Pill Ancestor, could neutralize the poison, then suddenly shuddered and cried out in disbelief.

Yao Wuzun revealed that he had poisoned the Azure Heaven Pavilion’s gathered experts with God-Locking Incense and planned to use them in his pill refinement, but Xue Xianfei and her companions were unaffected. When Yao Wuzun attacked them, a white-robed figure appeared and nullified his pressure.

• Lu Wentian exposed Yao Wuzun’s identity and reminded him that the Heavenly Mandate Xuanji Hall’s ancestor had once suppressed him.
• Yao Wuzun boasted that he was now the ancestor’s equal and planned to use the poisoned experts as the catalyst for a pill that would help him transcend.
• Yao Wuzun noticed that Xue Xianfei and her companions could still mobilize their Divine Power, while the other faction experts remained poisoned.
• Yao Wuzun sent his half-step above Hongmeng pressure toward Xue Xianfei, but a white-robed figure appeared and made it vanish.

Ye Xingchen appeared in the Azure Heaven Pavilion after Yao Wuzun attacked Xue Xianfei, revealed that Yao had poisoned Pavilion Master Ye, and dismissed his poison as ineffective. Yao Wuzun challenged Ye Xingchen and unleashed his Half-Step Above Hongmeng power, leaving the gathered experts awaiting Ye Xingchen’s response.

• Ye Xingchen arrived in the Azure Heaven Pavilion, and his presence silenced the pressure Yao Wuzun had unleashed against Xue Xianfei.
• Ye Xingchen reassured Xue Xianfei, then mocked Yao Wuzun for attacking his woman and claimed Yao’s path to becoming Pill Ancestor was doomed.
• The gathered experts praised Ye Xingchen and told the hidden experts that he was Xue Xianfei’s husband, feared throughout the Hongmeng Universe for defending his friends and family.
• Ye Xingchen accused Yao Wuzun of pretending to be mad while secretly poisoning him and Pavilion Master Ye with God-Locking Poison.
• Yao Wuzun calmed down, challenged Ye Xingchen’s strength, and released a Half-Step Above Hongmeng presence that shook the Azure Heaven Pavilion.

Yao Wuzun attacked Ye Xingchen before the gathered factions, but Ye Xingchen repelled his first palm strike. Yao Wuzun then invoked the power of ten thousand Daos and launched another attack, only to be left stunned by what happened next.

• Yao Wuzun unleashed a terrifying palm strike at Ye Xingchen and boasted that he would defeat him before the gathered factions.
• Ye Xingchen calmly met Yao Wuzun's attack with a palm strike, and the collision shattered the pavilion's void and nearly destroyed its small world.
• The impact sent Yao Wuzun flying hundreds of meters and left him injured, though he claimed he had used only half his strength.
• Yao Wuzun summoned black Qi and the power of ten thousand Daos, prompting the onlookers to realize he had refined countless experts to empower himself.
• Yao Wuzun punched at Ye Xingchen with his augmented strength, but the result left him rooted in place, repeating that it was impossible.

Yao Wuzun unleashed Hei Mo Destroys the World at Ye Xingchen, boasting that the attack would devour Ye Xingchen and leave Ye Qinghuang and Xue Xianfei at his mercy. Ye Xingchen stood untouched as a mysterious force swallowed the attack, leaving the Azure Heaven Pavilion’s onlookers stunned.

• Yao Wuzun hurled Hei Mo Destroys the World at Ye Xingchen, and its terrifying presence made young geniuses cough blood and fall to their knees.
• Ye Xingchen mocked Yao Wuzun’s strength and remained calm as Yao Wuzun poured even more power into his attack.
• Yao Wuzun explained that his punch could devour an opponent’s power, then threatened Ye Qinghuang and the woman in the private room.
• Yao Wuzun panicked when his attack reached Ye Xingchen, while experts from the various factions began cheering for Ye Xingchen.
• A mysterious force devoured Yao Wuzun’s punch and its evil face near Ye Xingchen, leaving the Azure Heaven Pavilion’s experts frozen in disbelief.

Ye Xingchen condemned Yao Wuzun for insulting his woman and sealed the Azure Heaven Pavilion to prevent his escape. He killed Yao Wuzun with a single finger, leaving the assembled powerhouses stunned and awed.

• Yao Wuzun mocked Ye Xingchen and claimed he could escape despite being outmatched.
• Sensing danger, Yao Wuzun fled toward the Azure Heaven Pavilion exit, but Ye Xingchen revealed that he had sealed the pavilion.
• Yao Wuzun attacked the barrier at the entrance and realized he could not escape.
• Ye Xingchen struck Yao Wuzun with a finger, annihilating his body and soul.
• The powerhouses in the Azure Heaven Pavilion fell silent and looked up at Ye Xingchen in shock and admiration.

Ye Xingchen captured Yao Wuzun’s hidden divine soul and destroyed him despite his offer of the body-merging method and threat to the poisoned factions. He then returned to Xue Xianfei and went to neutralize the God-Locking Incense poison afflicting the experts and Pavilion Master Ye.

• Ye Xingchen reached through spacetime and seized Yao Wuzun’s divine soul, exposing his attempt to escape death.
• Yao Wuzun offered his treasures and body-merging method, but Ye Xingchen rejected the bargain and destroyed him before he could finish threatening the Azure Heaven Pavilion.
• The factions’ experts realized they remained poisoned, while Ye Xingchen entered the private room and reunited with Xue Xianfei.
• Xue Xianfei asked Ye Xingchen to cure the poisoned experts and Pavilion Master Ye, and he agreed before stepping onto the platform.
• Ye Xingchen casually waved his hand over the scattered medicines and poisons, prompting the alchemy experts to praise his skill.

Ye Xingchen refined the Nine Netherworlds Immortal Lotus and other ingredients into a Primordial Divine Pill, then drove away its terrifying tribulation with a command. After the pill’s seal opened and its fragrance empowered those nearby, he shattered it into golden light and began distributing its power throughout the Azure Heaven Pavilion.

• Ye Xingchen summoned the Great Dao’s laws and refined the Nine Netherworlds Immortal Lotus and several divine herbs into a nine-colored Primordial Divine Pill.
• A devastating pill tribulation descended over Heaven and Earth City, leaving the gathered experts struggling under its pressure.
• Ye Xingchen ordered the tribulation to scram, and the clouds dispersed at his command.
• The pill’s seal opened, releasing a powerful medicinal fragrance that let experts mobilize Divine Power and helped some prodigies break through.
• Ye Xingchen shattered the pill into golden divine light and waved his hand again, astonishing everyone in the Azure Heaven Pavilion.

Ye Xingchen shattered a Nine-Colored Divine Pill to create a Primordial Divine Pill, cleansing and protecting the Azure Heaven Pavilion while restoring its damaged small world. After refusing several alchemy experts as disciples but sharing his insights with them, he was interrupted by a cry announcing a wonder of heaven and earth.

• Ye Xingchen explained that his Primordial Divine Pill neutralized God-Locking Incense and turned its power into golden runes that made the Azure Heaven Pavilion immune to poison and evil.
• Ye Xingchen used primordial beginning divine soil to restore the Azure Heaven Pavilion Small World, making it larger and suffusing it with vitality and divine energy.
• Several Dao of Alchemy experts begged Ye Xingchen to accept them as disciples, but he refused because they lacked a master-disciple connection with him.
• Ye Xingchen sent the alchemy experts his insights into the Dao of the Pill and urged them to pursue it diligently.
• As Ye Xingchen started toward Xue Xianfei's private room, someone shouted about a wonder of heaven and earth, drawing everyone's attention.

Ye Xingchen bestowed pill Dao methods on several experts, then the Great Dao descended to recognize his Pill Ancestor title and grant him a Heavenly Mandate. The chapter ended as the people of Heaven and Earth City froze in shock at what happened next.

• Several pill Dao experts bowed to Ye Xingchen, who warned them not to use his methods for evil and accepted their oath.
• Experts in Azure Heaven Pavilion discussed how Ye Xingchen's gift would protect the pill Dao experts and strengthen their factions.
• A vast divine eye appeared above Heaven and Earth City, and Lu Wentian identified the phenomenon as the Great Dao granting Ye Xingchen a Heavenly Mandate.
• Ye Xingchen stepped outside as the Great Dao manifested auspicious wonders across the city.
• The Great Dao declared that Ye Xingchen would patrol on Heaven's behalf and be revered by all living beings, then the crowd was stunned by what followed.

Ye Xingchen rejected the Primordial Great Dao’s heaven’s mandate, then overpowered its response until the Great Dao tried to retreat. When Ye Xingchen decided to claim the mandate after all, he reached out and ordered it to return.

• A golden pillar of Great Dao power descended toward Ye Xingchen, who had become a true Primordial Pill Ancestor.
• Ye Xingchen rejected the mandate and told the Primordial Great Dao to scram, shocking the people of Heaven and Earth City.
• The Primordial Great Dao erupted in fury, unleashing Immeasurable Divine Lightning as the crowd discussed Ye Xingchen’s identity and strength.
• Ye Xingchen’s aura suppressed the Great Dao, and the golden eye and descending pillar began to withdraw.
• Ye Xingchen declared that the mandate could not leave now that he wanted it, reached out, and called it back.

Ye Xingchen seized the Heavenly Mandate reward from the Great Dao, refined it into a divine pill, and drove back the Great Dao’s manifestation with a single punch. He gave the pill to Xue Xianfei, who swallowed it and began to radiate divine power.

• Ye Xingchen imprisoned the golden Heavenly Mandate power and defied the Great Dao as it threatened to sentence him to reincarnation.
• Ye Xingchen refined the golden light into a divine pill and punched through the firmament, forcing the Great Dao’s power and manifestations to retreat.
• Ye Xingchen warned the Great Dao not to appear again, while concealed ancestors of the Summit of Hongmeng praised his strength and youth.
• Ye Xingchen offered the Heavenly Mandate Divine Pill to Xue Xianfei, explaining that he had removed its traces of the Dao so she could attempt to reach half-step above Hongmeng.
• Xue Xianfei accepted and swallowed the pill, and golden light and divine might enveloped her.

Xue Xianfei consumed the Heavenly Mandate Divine Pill and broke through to the half-step above Hongmeng realm, while Ye Xingchen took her away to master her new power. Elsewhere, a Divine Son’s breakthrough was forcibly interrupted, leaving him vowing revenge on whoever had thwarted him.

• Xue Xianfei absorbed the Heavenly Mandate Divine Pill’s power and ascended to the half-step above Hongmeng realm as Ye Xingchen protected her from the Primordial Great Dao.
• Ye Xingchen carried Xue Xianfei into the Azure Heaven Pavilion to help her control her newfound power, while Ye Qinghuang disappeared into the void.
• Experts in Heaven and Earth City crowded around the Eternal Wine Clan, the First Emperor Divine Dynasty, and Penglai Immortal Island, and sent reports warning their factions not to provoke Ye Xingchen.
• Lu Wentian sent a golden divine talisman to report that the era’s Son of Destiny had appeared and surpassed the ancestor’s prophecy.
• An unknown force cut off a hazy figure’s breakthrough to Primordial Pill Ancestor, and the furious Divine Son vowed to find and destroy whoever had interrupted him.

Ye Xingchen received three powerful rewards from his system sign-in as the Heavenly Mandate Contest prepared to begin. He remained with Xue Xianfei while, far away, Ultimate Evil’s seal neared its breaking point.

• Ye Xingchen learned that the Heavenly Mandate Contest would begin at noon after Lu Wentian stopped a clash between two factions, and he surveyed the arena and its assembled leaders.
• Ye Xingchen considered placing the Eight Desolations Demon-Suppressing Platform at the arena, then completed his system sign-in and received ten Primordial Purple Qi Pills, the Primordial Mysterious Maiden Art, and the Compass of Fate.
• Ye Xingchen decided the Primordial Mysterious Maiden Art would suit Xue Xianfei, who woke in his arms and playfully tussled with him.
• In the Land of Origin, Ultimate Evil’s black dragon eroded the Heaven-Reaching Divine Stele’s seal as Ultimate Evil threatened to escape and turn Hongmeng into a purgatory.

Ye Xingchen gave Xue Xianfei a gift that manifested as a Hongmeng-grade cultivation art embodying the power of spacetime above Heaven and Earth City. As a greedy reclusive expert charged toward the Azure Heaven Pavilion to seize it, Ye Qinghuang warned that revealing such a rare art could be his death warrant.

• Xue Xianfei pouted in Ye Xingchen's embrace, and Ye Xingchen offered her a gift as an apology.
• Ye Xingchen revealed a cultivation art whose manifestation filled the sky above Heaven and Earth City with a dancing phantom and nine-colored lotuses.
• Experts from the factions recognized the art as at least Hongmeng-grade and identified it as the art of spacetime.
• The cultivation scroll transformed into nine-colored light and descended into the Azure Heaven Pavilion, shocking Ye Qinghuang.
• A reclusive spacetime expert rushed toward the pavilion, claiming the art and threatening to kill anyone who stopped him.
• Ye Qinghuang suggested that the expert's greed and open display of intent would make the rare opportunity a death warrant for him.

Yun Qingming tried to claim the divine art from the Azure Heaven Pavilion, but Ye Xingchen killed him with a single attack. The surrounding factions were left stunned by Ye Xingchen's overwhelming power.

• Yun Qingming introduced himself as master of the Return to Origin Ancient Sect and offered to trade its Divine Bone Heaven-Suppressing Stone for the divine art, asking to receive the art first.
• When the Azure Heaven Pavilion gave no reply, Yun Qingming demanded the divine art as an apology and reached toward the nine-colored radiance.
• Ye Xingchen warned Yun Qingming not to covet what belonged to him and unleashed his power, making Yun Qingming plead for mercy.
• Ye Xingchen refused to spare Yun Qingming and summoned a gigantic character for “annihilation.”
• The character crushed Yun Qingming to death, leaving Heaven and Earth City stunned.

After killing Yun Qingming, Ye Xingchen gave Xue Xianfei the Primordial Mysterious Maiden Art and left through a space-time passage to attend to a promise. As the experts in Heaven and Earth City discussed the coming Heavenly Mandate Contest, an overwhelming divine presence descended from the void.

• Ye Xingchen gave Xue Xianfei the Primordial Mysterious Maiden Art, explaining that it could grant her eternal youth and unfading beauty.
• Xue Xianfei urged Ye Xingchen to honor the seniors who had sacrificed themselves to protect the Hongmeng Universe, and he departed through a golden space-time passage.
• Experts in Heaven and Earth City discussed Yun Qingming's death, the Return to Origin Ancient Sect's retreat, and the approaching Heavenly Mandate Contest.
• The void above Heaven and Earth City tore open, and a tremendous divine might descended, stunning the experts gathered below.

The Hongmeng Immortal Dynasty arrived at Heaven and Earth City in a golden palace, stunning the factions gathered for the Heavenly Mandate Contest. One of its figures destroyed the Return to Origin Ancient Sect experts, and the dynasty's representatives took their places in the arena as everyone watched in fear.

• The Hongmeng Immortal Dynasty's golden palace burst through the sky and crushed several fleeing Return to Origin Ancient Sect disciples.
• The faction leaders recognized the palace as belonging to the legendary Hongmeng Immortal Dynasty, which had once nearly unified the Hongmeng Universe.
• An old man identified the dynasty, and the gathered factions speculated that its representatives had come to compete for the Heavenly Mandate.
• A Hongmeng Immortal Dynasty figure stamped down and annihilated the remaining Return to Origin Ancient Sect experts, leaving a massive footprint in the city.
• The Hongmeng Immortal Dynasty representatives descended onto the ninth tier of the spectator stands, and the arena fell silent.