Recaps

Lin Fei learned that Ye Wudi had hidden the Thirty-Three Heavens in the Primordial Wilderness East China Sea rather than the Four Forbidden Lands. They planned to secure North-Subduing City before traveling east to retrieve it, though Ye Wudi hinted Lin Fei would have to endure another indignity.

• Ye Wudi said he could reach late Mahayana in three days, and Lin Fei teased him about being conservative.
• Ye Wudi asked how his progress compared with Lin Yuan, but Lin Fei told him he was better off not knowing.
• Lin Fei visited Ye Wudi privately and asked where he had hidden the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Ye Wudi revealed that he had sunk the Thirty-Three Heavens into the Primordial Wilderness East China Sea, near the legendary Other Shore Heavenly Capital.
• Lin Fei said the journey from the far north would be too much for a Human Immortal, and Ye Wudi replied that a Heavenly Demon Body could withstand it.
• Ye Wudi proposed securing North-Subduing City, then using a spatial formation to travel to the East China Sea, teasing that Lin Fei would have to endure some indignity.

Lin Fei and Ye Wudi planned how to escape North-Subduing City, including having Lin Fei pose as a Heavenly Demon expert to use a teleportation array. Lin Fei also forced Ye Wudi to honor his teasing by wearing women’s clothes, so Ye Wudi went to Youyue to ask to borrow hers.

• Ye Wudi teased Lin Fei about disguising himself as a Devil Race woman, and Lin Fei warned him to stop before ordering him to try it himself.
• Ye Wudi explained that they needed Lin Fei to pose as a Heavenly Demon expert to use a teleportation array and that Tian Yunheng had to die to secure North-Subduing City.
• Lin Fei reviewed Ye Wudi’s detailed escape plans, and Ye Wudi said he hoped to join him once the Sun and Moon Human Emperor Array was repaired.
• Lin Fei insisted that Ye Wudi put on women’s clothes, and Ye Wudi fled to Youyue’s residence.
• Youyue mistook Ye Wudi’s hesitation for a marriage discussion, but he asked to borrow her clothes for a day.

Youyue dressed Ye Wudi in women’s clothing after he lost a bet with Lin Fei, then helped him do his hair and makeup. Ye Wudi returned to oversee repairs to the Human Emperor Sun and Moon Formation, where the crew recognized him only after he revealed his demonic flames; Ji Yaoguang later laughed when she saw him.

• Ye Wudi told Youyue how he had lost a bet with Lin Fei, and she led him to her boudoir to choose women’s clothes.
• Youyue persuaded Ye Wudi to let her style his hair and apply makeup, leaving him mortified by his appearance.
• Ye Wudi returned to the formation maintenance area in a dress, where workers mistook him for a young woman and teased him.
• Ye Wudi revealed his Heavenly Demon Raging Flame Dance and explained that the outfit was his punishment for losing a bet with the Heavenly Venerable.
• Ji Yaoguang laughed when she saw Ye Wudi and wondered whether cross-dressing was a traditional specialty of the Heavenly Demon Divine Palace.

Tian Yunshu revealed that her research into Everyone Like a Dragon could turn human subjects into disposable weapons capable of killing immortals, and she negotiated with Tian Yunheng for Wilderness People. Their discussion left open the danger that other powerful races might obtain the rest of the cultivation art and use it to arm their slave legions.

• Tian Yunshu told Tian Yunheng that Everyone Like a Dragon was especially suited to humans and could make a mortal deliver a fatal strike at the cost of their life.
• Tian Yunheng and Tian Yunshu bargained over exchanging Wilderness People for humans and settled on five hundred humans for each Wilderness Person.
• Tian Yunshu asked Tian Yunheng to bring her a hundred Wilderness People from the Mist Forest.
• Tian Yunheng asked whether someone with the other part of the incomplete scroll could deduce the full art, and Tian Yunshu admitted that other top races might manage it.
• Tian Yunheng left to fetch the Wilderness People while he and Tian Yunshu considered the threat posed by armed slave legions.

Tian Yunheng returned to Cloud Crossing Mansion and found his small world ransacked and destroyed, with a taunting message directing him to North-Subduing City. Enraged and fearing for his children, he collapsed the small world and unleashed his fury toward the city, where Lin Fei possessed the Heavenly Demon Body.

• Tian Yunheng traveled toward his small world, reflecting on his speed and planning to see his son and prepare pills for his daughter.
• Tian Yunheng found the entrance breached, the small world devastated, and his treasures and spirit soil taken.
• Tian Yunheng read a message challenging him to come to North-Subduing City, then destroyed the boulder and collapsed the small world in rage.
• Lin Fei sensed Tian Yunheng's approach and sent his primordial spirit to possess the Heavenly Demon Body.
• Tian Yunheng appeared as a vast heavenly serpent and roared toward North-Subduing City, unleashing storms and destructive sound waves across the landscape.

Lin Fei stopped Tian Yunheng’s attack on North-Subduing City and gravely wounded him with the force he had swallowed and released. Just as Lin Fei moved to finish him, a silver-haired, silver-eyed young man appeared from Tian Yunheng’s consciousness, accompanied by an immortal dao paean.

• Tian Yunheng’s roar threatened to kill everyone in North-Subduing City, but Lin Fei drew in the destructive sound waves and swallowed them.
• Lin Fei spat the force back at Tian Yunheng, piercing his protective gang qi and leaving a bloody hole in his body.
• Lin Fei struck Tian Yunheng with a palm, breaking apart his transformed Heavenly Dragon body and destroying half of it.
• Tian Yunheng regretted his arrogance as Lin Fei prepared to strike again.
• A silver-haired, silver-eyed young man’s primordial spirit imprint emerged from Tian Yunheng, and an immortal dao paean sounded across the battlefield.

Tian Yichen’s primordial spirit appeared, killed Tian Yunheng, and explained to Lin Fei and Ye Wudi why he had opposed the Heavenly Serpent Ancestor. The chapter left Tian Yichen’s past revealed, while Lin Fei still demanded an explanation for the Heavenly Serpent Race’s crimes against humans.

• Tian Yichen appeared from the restored Mist Forest and recognized Lin Fei, while Tian Yunheng urged him to kill Lin Fei and possess his body.
• Tian Yichen apologized to Tian Yunheng for what he was about to do, then struck him dead to prevent him from revealing the Heavenly Venerable’s whereabouts.
• Lin Fei demanded an explanation for the Heavenly Serpent Race’s slaughter of humans and Tian Yunheng’s experiments on them.
• Tian Yichen privately told Lin Fei and Ye Wudi that he had opposed the Heavenly Serpent Ancestor over the treatment of humans after the Heavenly Court fell.
• Tian Yichen recounted how the Ancestor tortured Ye Bailing for information, prompting Tian Yichen to fight his elder brother and be sealed beneath Heavenly Serpent Mountain for three thousand years.

Lin Fei accepted Tian Yichen’s sealed primordial spirit and learned from Tian Yunheng’s remains that Tian Yunshu was at the White Cloud Mountain Range. He arrived there with Tian Yichen and the Heavenly Demon Body, where Tian Yichen identified him as the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages.

• Lin Fei vowed to storm Heavenly Serpent Mountain, and Tian Yichen sealed a strand of his primordial spirit in a talisman for Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei condemned the Ancestor of the Heavenly Serpents and the myriad races for their crimes against humans, then sent everyone away.
• Lin Fei examined Tian Yunheng’s corpse, confirmed its consciousness restriction was gone, and used Soul Search to learn of Tian Yunshu and the White Cloud Mountain Range.
• At midnight, Tian Yunshu wondered why Tian Yunheng had not returned, then saw Tian Yichen arrive beside a silver-lit woman as Heavenly Serpent cultivators knelt.
• Lin Fei looked toward Yunshu Peak, and Tian Yichen announced that he was the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages, shocking the Heavenly Serpent Race.

Lin Fei and Tian Yichen dealt with the Heavenly Serpent Race cultivators at White Cloud Mountain Range, then discussed how the race should answer for its persecution of humans. Lin Fei left Tian Yichen with a firm demand to kill the guilty and spare the innocent.

• Tian Yichen sealed the Heavenly Serpent Race cultivators’ escape routes and annihilated their primordial spirits to prevent them from informing the Ancestor of the Heavenly Serpents.
• Lin Fei warned Tian Yichen that using his fading primordial spirit would permanently consume its power, and Tian Yichen said he had acted to save the mountain range.
• Lin Fei and Tian Yichen gathered the Heavenly Serpent corpses while discussing the race’s cruelty toward humans and Tian Yichen’s doubts about how to correct it.
• Tian Yichen asked what fate Lin Fei intended for the Heavenly Serpent Race, and Lin Fei said the guilty should be killed while the innocent were spared.

Lin Fei accepted Tian Yichen’s answer about the Heavenly Serpent Race and helped North-Subduing City develop its resources before refining the Qianyuan Dragon Transformation Pill. The pill took dragon form and tried to flee, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Lin Fei told Tian Yichen that members of the Heavenly Serpent Race who had harmed humans should face retribution, while innocent members could be spared, and Tian Yichen accepted his answer.
• Lin Fei and Tian Yichen plundered White Cloud Mountain Range, and North-Subduing City put the Heavenly Snake’s remains to use while Lin Fei raised the miners’ share of extracted spirit stones to one-fifth.
• Lin Fei used resources to remove Youyue’s Seven Orifices Soul-Bewitching Pill influence and gathered the ingredients for the Qianyuan Dragon Transformation Pill.
• Lin Fei pulled up the flowering Dragon Blood Vine before it could bear fruit and began refining the pill in the City Lord’s Residence.
• A dragon-shaped phantom and medicinal fragrance caused a stir in North-Subduing City as Lin Fei’s blood-red pill formed into a dragon and shot toward the sky.

Lin Fei swallowed the Qianyuan Dragon Transformation Pill and absorbed its overwhelming medicinal power as North-Subduing City watched and wagered on how quickly he would break through. Before midnight, he finished absorbing the pill and raced out of the city beneath gathering thunderclouds.

• The Qianyuan Dragon Transformation Pill resisted Lin Fei until he seized and refined it in his palm.
• Lin Fei swallowed the pill on the roof of the city lord's residence and drew in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to absorb its power.
• Residents of North-Subduing City debated how long Lin Fei would need to break through, and Ye Wudi bet that he would do it in less than a day.
• As night fell, Lin Fei drew in the essence of the stars and moon while continuing to cultivate.
• Just before midnight, Lin Fei finished absorbing the pill, released a beam of divine radiance, and raced out of the city as thunderclouds gathered overhead.

Lin Fei broke through to Earth Immortal First Rank and survived a powerful lightning tribulation while advancing another layer. The Human Race climbed in the Ten Thousand Races ranking, prompting the furious Heavenly Serpent Race to send a Golden Immortal to investigate its losses.

• Ye Wudi collected his gambling winnings while Youyue lectured the gamblers and proposed banning gambling.
• Lin Fei underwent a massive lightning tribulation, fought off its beasts, and reached Earth Immortal First Rank Second Layer.
• Lin Fei sensed his new ability to manipulate earth veins and began laying a Spirit Gathering Array around North-Subduing City.
• The Human Race rose from 3,992nd to 3,582nd in the Ranking of the Ten Thousand Races, while the Heavenly Serpent Race fell from seventy-eighth to seventy-ninth.
• The Ancestor of the Heavenly Serpents ordered an investigation, and a Golden Immortal left Heavenly Serpent Mountain through a teleportation array.

The Heavenly Mastiff King investigated the destruction of Dog Mountain, but a blood-colored fortune initially blocked his attempt to see the past. After the image revealed the Old Peng King’s looting and mockery, he threatened the Peng Race but decided to negotiate instead, while the Old Peng King felt an inexplicable unease in North-Subduing City.

• The Heavenly Mastiff King arrived at Dog Mountain and asked who had killed the Dog Race’s Ancestor and Progenitor.
• A Dog Race cultivator said the newcomers knew nothing about the attack, and the Heavenly Mastiff King used a method to retrace the past.
• Blood-colored mist blocked the Heavenly Mastiff King’s vision until it dispersed and revealed the Old Peng King plundering Dog Mountain and joking about eating Dog Race meat.
• The Heavenly Mastiff King angrily blamed the Peng Race and threatened the Old Peng King, but erased the image and decided to negotiate with the Peng Race rather than start a war.
• In North-Subduing City, the Old Peng King sneezed and wondered why a Human Immortal could catch a chill.

The Heavenly Mastiff King found Heavenly Spring Town devastated and suspected a human powerhouse was behind the attacks, but Cai Beiyu confronted him and rewrote his memories. He awoke believing Cai Beiyu had personally destroyed his territory, while she departed to pursue a greater threat to the Human Race.

• The Heavenly Mastiff King arrived at Heavenly Spring Town and found its people gone, its buildings ruined, and its spirit herbs plundered.
• He used retrospection to investigate the attacker but saw only blood-colored mist, then suspected the culprit was a powerful human, possibly the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages.
• Purple lightning struck near the Heavenly Mastiff King after he cursed the heavens, and he stopped speaking recklessly.
• Cai Beiyu appeared and used her united yin-and-yang power to subdue the Heavenly Mastiff King, then entered his sea of consciousness to rewrite his memories.
• Cai Beiyu thought that the foremost race was plotting to seize the Human Race's blood-colored fortune and ascend to the imperial throne.
• The Heavenly Mastiff King awoke believing Cai Beiyu had destroyed his territory, and he fumed over her threat to fight him if he declared war on the Kunpeng Race.

Cai Beiyu was tortured by the Human Emperor’s projection, who demanded she find the person who took his blood-colored fortune and betray Lin Fei. She pretended to comply, then used the Kunpeng Ancestral Tree’s power to bind and destroy the projection, accepting that she would likely die when he returned.

• The Human Emperor’s projection beat Cai Beiyu and demanded that she reveal who had taken a share of his blood-colored fortune.
• Cai Beiyu claimed she needed seven days to investigate, while the Kunpeng Ancestral Tree gathered power around the palace.
• The projection threatened Cai Beiyu with the Kunpeng Race’s destruction unless she killed Lin Fei, and Cai Beiyu promised to obey.
• The Kunpeng Ancestral Tree burned its vitality as a Kun and a Peng appeared, binding the projection with chains of order.
• Cai Beiyu said the Human Emperor’s return in a hundred days would likely be the day she died, and declared that she feared no deaths as long as the Heavenly Venerable remained unharmed.

Cai Beiyu destroyed the mysterious figure’s projection with a grand array, but suffered grievous injuries and collapsed. In North-Subduing City, Lin Fei prepared to pursue the Thirty-Three Heavens, the Heavenly Court’s great storehouse of power, as he and Ye Wudi set out to obtain it.

• Cai Beiyu revealed that she had spent three thousand years preparing the array to destroy the mysterious figure’s projection, sacrificing her blood energy and Immortal Essence as its core.
• After the projection vanished, the Kunpeng Ancestral Tree withered, and Cai Beiyu collapsed from her injuries while longing for Lin Fei before losing consciousness.
• Lin Fei established a Spirit Gathering Array around North-Subduing City, and Ye Wudi’s team completed repairs to the Sun and Moon Human Emperor Array.
• Lin Fei explained to Ji Yaoguang that the Thirty-Three Heavens contained vast immortal medicines and Great Dao spirit roots that had once strengthened the Heavenly Court.
• Lin Fei declared that obtaining the Thirty-Three Heavens would bring the day of reckoning closer, then drank from a flask and departed with Ye Wudi.

Lin Fei and his companions traveled toward Jiangjin City on the Old Peng King's back, using his Peng identity to deter trouble. They stopped in a Heavenly Dog Race town, where Lin Fei posed as a mysterious young master and revealed a golden Peng phantom that terrified the town's lord.

• Ye Wudi warned the group that Jiangjin City was under the Heavenly Dog Race's jurisdiction and that Golden Immortal experts might be present.
• Lin Fei and his companions ate fish soup on the Old Peng King's back while he continued flying, exhausted and resentful.
• Lin Fei ordered the Old Peng King to descend into a Heavenly Dog Race town, where the lord, Gou Wude, asked what brought them there.
• Ye Wudi rebuked Gou Wude for asking Lin Fei's name, and Lin Fei claimed they had stopped to buy supplies on the way to Jiangjin City.
• Lin Fei displayed a golden Peng phantom that left Gou Wude trembling and the gathered residents in an uproar.

Lin Fei, posing as a young master of the Kunpeng Race, frightened Gou Wude into letting him and his companions enter town. After learning Gou Wude planned to capture and torture humans, Lin Fei concealed his killing intent and decided to wait for the returning Heavenly Dog Race members so he could rescue the captives and catch them all at once.

• Lin Fei intimidated Gou Wude by claiming the status of a Kunpeng Race young master, and Gou Wude knelt, apologized, and slapped himself.
• Gou Wude ordered the gate guard to open the restriction, then led Lin Fei, Ye Wudi, Ji Yaoguang, and Old Peng King into town.
• Gou Wude offered Lin Fei beauties and described plans to capture humans hiding in the Fallen Phoenix Mountain Range.
• Gou Wude described torturing and eating humans, prompting Lin Fei to release a brief burst of killing intent.
• Lin Fei held back from attacking and decided to wait for the returning Heavenly Dog Race members so he could rescue the captives and catch them all at once.

Lin Fei demanded every human in the town from Gou Wude, offering only a single low-grade spirit stone in return and refusing to spare Gou Wude’s servants and concubines. He then chose to stay at Drunken Fragrance Pavilion, leaving Ji Yaoguang uneasy as she wondered whether she and Lin Fei were visiting a brothel together.

• Lin Fei criticized Gou Wude’s treatment of humans and asked how many remained in the town.
• Lin Fei took a jade hairpin without paying and gave it to Ji Yaoguang.
• Lin Fei demanded all three thousand humans in town and tossed Gou Wude a single low-grade spirit stone as payment.
• Lin Fei refused Gou Wude’s request to keep his maidservants and concubines.
• Gou Wude led Lin Fei, Ji Yaoguang, Ye Wudi, and the Old Peng King to Drunken Fragrance Pavilion.
• Ji Yaoguang felt uneasy at the tavern and wondered whether she and Lin Fei had come to a brothel together.

Lin Fei met Qingqiu, a human courtesan brought to his room, and treated her with compassion rather than as an entertainer. He asked whether she had ever hoped to escape her life and suggested that her freedom might come soon.

• Gou Wude ordered the brothel to clear the seventh floor, provide Lin Fei with food and drink, and send Qingqiu to attend him.
• Gou Wude warned the proprietress not to serve food made from sapient races and left to gather the humans in town for Lin Fei.
• Old Peng King enjoyed the food, wine, and company in his room, while Ye Wudi dismissed most of the women sent to him.
• Lin Fei dismissed the women of other races and kept Qingqiu because she was human.
• Lin Fei spoke with Qingqiu as a friend, asked whether she had hoped to escape her life, and told her that day might not be far off.

Lin Fei killed Gou Yuanlin’s two lackeys after they attacked him, then forced Gou Yuanlin to his knees. Gou Yuanlin pleaded for his life by invoking his father, Gou Wude.

• Qingqiu mistook Lin Fei’s kindness for an offer to buy her freedom, but he did not explain his intentions.
• Gou Yuanlin learned that Qingqiu was entertaining an important guest and stormed into Lin Fei’s room with two lackeys.
• Gou Yuanlin ordered his lackeys to break Lin Fei’s limbs, then lewdly propositioned Ji Yaoguang when Qingqiu tried to intervene.
• Lin Fei sent his wine cup flying like a blade and killed both lackeys.
• Lin Fei crushed Gou Yuanlin with invisible pressure, forcing him to his knees as Gou Yuanlin cried that his father was Gou Wude.

Lin Fei crippled Gou Yuanlin and threw him into the river after Gou Yuanlin tried to use his family’s status to threaten him. Gou Yuanlin ran to his father for help, but Gou Wude recognized the danger and slapped him.

• Lin Fei mocked Gou Yuanlin’s demands, then immobilized him and broke his arms and legs.
• Lin Fei kicked Gou Yuanlin through the window into the river while Qingqiu opened it.
• Lin Fei asked Qingqiu to cook dog meat and warm wine, and she realized he meant Heavenly Dog.
• Gou Yuanlin went to Gou Wude and reported that Lin Fei had attacked him at the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion with Qingqiu present.
• Gou Wude slapped Gou Yuanlin and cursed him for bringing him into danger.

Gou Wude beat Gou Yuanlin for provoking Lin Fei, a young master of the Kunpeng Race, while Lin Fei, Ji Yaoguang, and Qingqiu ate heavenly dog meat at the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion. Gou Wude arrived to apologize, saw them dining, and shut the door in fright.

• Gou Wude learned Gou Yuanlin had provoked Lin Fei and beat him while cursing his recklessness.
• Qingqiu prepared heavenly dog meat as Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang waited in his room at the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion.
• The smell of the meat alarmed the Heavenly Dog Race and frightened the proprietress, but Qingqiu joined Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang in eating.
• Gou Wude brought Gou Yuanlin to Lin Fei's room, saw the three eating dog meat, and slammed the door shut, thinking he had opened it wrong.

Lin Fei forced Gou Wude and Gou Yuanlin to apologize after serving heavenly dog meat, then promised Qingqiu that he would restore her and her mother’s freedom the next day. He and his companions went boating while the Heavenly Dog Race’s merchants complained that Lin Fei was taking everything in sight.

• Gou Wude brought Gou Yuanlin to apologize to Lin Fei and offered a thousand low-grade immortal spirit stones, which Lin Fei accepted before dismissing them.
• Qingqiu pleaded for Lin Fei to save her and her mother, and Lin Fei promised to restore their freedom the next day.
• Qingqiu invited Lin Fei and his companions to take a pleasure boat, and Lin Fei went to fetch Ye Wudi and the Old Peng King.
• Lin Fei and the others sailed along the river with wine, courtesans, and Qingqiu playing the pipa, while the Old Peng King joined them after playing with seven women.
• Vendors and shopkeepers along the river complained as Lin Fei took whatever caught his eye.

Lin Fei returned to the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion after a night of taking goods from the Heavenly Dog Race’s town, where Gou Wude sent nine human concubines to serve him. Lin Fei offered the women freedom and a home among his people, then killed one after discovering through soul search that she had committed atrocities against humans to gain Gou Wude’s favor.

• Lin Fei gave the goods from the outing to Qingqiu and returned to his room.
• Lin Fei found nine human women whom Gou Wude had sent as his concubines.
• Lin Fei rejected the women’s service and offered to take them to his race’s home, but several feared losing their protection.
• Lin Fei used the Soul Search Technique on the voluptuous woman and discovered she had devised a human-brain dish for Gou Wude and abused her fellow humans.
• Lin Fei killed the voluptuous woman and ordered the others to remove her body.