Recaps

Ye Daoran overwhelmed the Extreme Dao experts and revealed that he was carrying on the paths of those who had sacrificed themselves for him. His Summer attack devastated the galaxy, leaving Lin Fei and the Two Emperors of the Eastern Heaven struggling to protect a small group while the experts outside the Chaos Lotus Pond were struck by disaster.

• Ye Daoran crushed Ye Wudi's weapon and defeated the Queen Mother of the West, the Asura empress, and Great Emperor Zhenwu with ease.
• Ye Daoran said that his followers had made him what he was and vowed to carry on their paths.
• Ye Daoran transformed into a woman in white and used Spring to restore the injured experts and unleash the Fragrant Blossoms weapon.
• Ye Daoran invoked Summer, turning the blossoms into exploding fruits that destroyed planets and stars across the galaxy.
• The Two Emperors of the Eastern Heaven joined Lin Fei to form the Chaos Lotus Pond and shelter the Queen Mother of the West, Empress Yaoguang, Ye Wudi, and others, while the experts outside suffered the storm.

Lin Fei led the surviving Extreme Dao experts in a desperate assault on Ye Daoran, but Ye Daoran countered with the powers of autumn and winter, freezing nearly all of them. The battle continued with only six attackers able to act, and Ye Daoran wounded the Starry Sky Insect Emperor while transformed into the Twin Flower Emperors.

• The battered survivors gathered around Lin Fei, who judged that they had little hope but ordered them to attack Ye Daoran together.
• Ye Daoran unleashed autumn, draining vitality and weakening the attackers’ divine abilities, so Lin Fei led them into the Heavenly Dao Timeline to evade the killing move.
• Ye Daoran seized the timeline’s vertical axis and collapsed its horizontal axes as Lin Fei and the others emerged around him.
• Ye Daoran invoked winter, freezing most of the attackers and leaving Lin Fei, the Two Emperors of the Eastern Heaven, and the three supreme rulers of the Innate Beings able to continue fighting.
• Ye Daoran split into A Qing and A Zi, swallowed the Starry Sky Insect Emperor’s black sphere with a man-eating flower, then struck it back into his mouth and severely wounded him.
• As A Zi, Ye Daoran caught the Starry Sky Insect Emperor’s river of stars between three fingers and rubbed it into fine dust.

Ye Daoran trapped the Extreme Dao experts in stellar fruits and fought off Lin Fei and the others as they tried to stop him. After Lin Fei wounded him and briefly reclaimed the Immortal-Slaying Sword, Ye Daoran tore the Dragon Emperor in half and struck at Lin Fei, leaving the experts despairing.

• Ye Daoran's immortal blossoms spread across the galaxy and began refining the Extreme Dao experts inside their fruits.
• Lin Fei drew the Immortal-Slaying Sword and severed a cluster of branches, freeing Empress Yaoguang, Ye Wudi, and the other imprisoned experts while grazing Ye Daoran's shoulder.
• Ye Daoran tried to pluck away the Immortal-Slaying Sword, but Lin Fei used One Kill in Ten Steps to knock his arm back and take the sword again.
• Ye Daoran merged his two bodies, shattered the Primordial Beginning Dao Realm and the spiritual axe, and left Lin Fei's primordial spirit badly cracked.
• Ye Daoran tore the Dragon Emperor's body in half, then fought off the Insect Emperor and the Spirit Venerable before reaching for Lin Fei's head.

Lin Yuan sent Lin Fei into the true past to give him a chance to defeat Ye Daoran and investigate the multiverse’s sickness, while sacrificing himself to freeze time across the multiverse. Lin Fei arrived in an earlier era transformed into an Arcane cultivator, with a powerful Arcane Core that could devour and optimize genes.

• Lin Yuan appeared as the Primordial Heavenly Dao and told Lin Fei that he would send him into the past, warning him not to reveal his future knowledge and to beware of a censored danger.
• Lin Yuan used the Heavenly Dao Spacetime Axis to send Lin Fei toward the past while burning himself to halt time throughout the multiverse.
• As Lin Fei crossed more than two hundred million years, a force transformed his primordial spirit into that of an Arcane life-form.
• Lin Fei discovered that his illusory Arcane Core could devour and optimize genes from powerful beings of different races.
• Lin Fei resolved to use his new ability against Ye Daoran, convinced that their conflict had only just begun.

Lin Fei possessed the dying body of an Arcane Race marquis after his troops defeated a human tribe. He awoke amid his followers and stopped a shadow guard from killing a captive woman.

• Lin Fei surveyed the strange ancient jungle and realized his future cultivation powers were sealed by the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions.
• He found a human tribe devastated by Arcane Race invaders and learned that their young marquis was dying.
• Lin Fei possessed the marquis’s body, absorbed his memories, and woke as his followers prepared to take the corpse to Flying Cloud City.
• The Arcane Race members congratulated Lin Fei, while some concealed resentment over his survival and reported that Gu Longhu had escaped with the Heavenly God Race’s Stargate.
• Lin Fei ordered a shadow guard to stop killing a captive Human Race woman and slapped him across the face.

Lin Fei disguised his effort to rescue human captives as a claim of ownership, winning the Arcane Race’s obedience while learning how they harvested souls for power. After considering his precarious authority as a weak young marquis, he decided to eliminate potential dissenters before they could move against him.

• Lin Fei slapped Ying Jian, claimed the wounded human woman as his own, and ordered the captives taken to his residence.
• Black Iron accepted Lin Fei’s order, and the rest of the Arcane Race members knelt and followed it.
• Aboard the arcane spacecraft, Lin Fei discovered that its reactor consumed hundreds of thousands of souls and learned that the Arcane Race bred captives for harvesting.
• Lin Fei questioned which era and plane he had entered and wondered about the destruction of ancient races, Lin Yuan’s warning, and the force invading the Heavenly Dao.
• Lin Fei recognized that the other feudal lords far surpassed him in strength and resolved to strike first against those who might oppose him.

Lin Fei returned to Flying Cloud City and resolved to confront the five officials who controlled its resources. When Ao Beichen arrived to challenge him, Lin Fei prepared to face him and revealed strength that surprised Black Iron.

• Lin Fei and Black Iron returned to Flying Cloud City, where Lin Fei saw the Arcane Race’s prosperous city and its rune-powered technology.
• Lin Fei ordered his guards to confine the captives in Chenxiang Courtyard and told Black Iron he would no longer submit to the five first-rank officials.
• Lin Fei explained that the officials’ control of resources had stifled Black Iron’s cultivation and proposed killing Ao Lantian first, then fleeing and striking Ao Beichen’s base if the other officials arrived.
• A messenger announced Ao Beichen’s arrival, and Ao Beichen shouted for Lin Fei to come out.
• Lin Fei removed Black Iron’s restrictions with ease, startling Black Iron with his power.

Lin Fei let Ao Lantian recruit the disloyal people in the marquis’s residence so their intentions would be exposed. As Ao Lantian prepared to leave with them, Lin Fei revealed that he meant to send them all to hell.

• Lin Fei entered the courtyard with Black Iron and found Ao Lantian fondling two of his concubines while Ying Jian and the personal guards declared their loyalty to Ao.
• Lin Fei calmly allowed anyone in the residence who wished to follow Ao Lantian to leave with him, then summoned everyone to hear the offer.
• The residence’s staff and other familiar faces gathered and announced they would join Ao Lantian, who mocked Lin Fei and prepared to depart.
• Black Iron realized Lin Fei had waited so every disloyal person would reveal themselves.
• Lin Fei told Ao Lantian and the gathered defectors to stay, then said he meant for them to go to hell.

Lin Fei and Black Iron attacked Ao Lantian and the traitors inside the marquis’s estate, concealing the battle with an illusion. After devastating the traitors and breaking through Ao Lantian’s defenses, they faced his meteor-summoning counterattack.

• Lin Fei cloaked the marquis’s estate in an illusion and unleashed lightning and a magnetic storm against Ao Lantian and the traitors.
• Black Iron swept the survivors with a corrosive Shadow Spell, severely injuring Ying Jian and the personal guards and leaving the traitors begging for mercy.
• Lin Fei refused to spare them, and Ao Lantian layered defensive spells around himself while the others panicked.
• Lin Fei and Black Iron shattered Ao Lantian’s shields with Holy Light and Shadow attacks, while Lin Fei’s illusion caused a concubine to die by self-immolation.
• Ao Lantian summoned burning rocks from the sky, which plunged toward Lin Fei and Black Iron like meteors.

Lin Fei and Black Iron defeated Ao Lantian and his traitors, then rescued the prisoners and attacked Blue Sky Manor. The chapter left four officials arriving at the marquis’s residence and finding a scene that stunned Ao Zongping.

• Lin Fei used a frost barrier and a two-thousand-times-gravity spell to repel Ao Lantian’s flaming boulders and crush the summoned lava giants.
• Lin Fei and Black Iron overwhelmed Ao Lantian with lightning and undead magic, and Lin Fei extracted his Arcane Core and took his spatial ring.
• Black Iron killed the remaining traitors and collected their Arcane Cores while Lin Fei gathered the prisoners and loyal household subordinates and took them away aboard the arcane airship.
• Lin Fei and Black Iron reached Blue Sky Manor, killed the gate guards, blasted open the gates, and attacked those inside.
• Ao Zongping arrived with three first-rank officials, kicked open the gates of the marquis’s residence, and froze at what he saw.

After killing Ao Lantian, Lin Fei and Black Iron plundered his manor and fled toward Blood-Colored Bug Ridge, where the Arcane Race’s kings would hesitate to pursue them. As they escaped with the manor’s captives, Black Iron suggested killing them to avoid the burden, leaving Lin Fei troubled by his companion’s disregard for other races.

• Ao Zongping and three other first-rank officials used the Mystic Light Technique to witness Ao Lantian’s death, then rode toward Blue Sky Manor to hunt down his killers.
• Lin Fei and Black Iron looted Ao Lantian’s estate, killed a holdout who threatened them, and took the captives aboard their Arcana airship.
• Lin Fei ordered Black Iron to fly east toward Blood-Colored Bug Ridge, hoping Diana Luwei’s territory would protect them from the Arcane Race’s pursuit.
• Lin Fei and Black Iron discussed the dangers of fleeing to the City of Sin, where Earth Spirit-level powerhouses held power, but Lin Fei asked whether they had another choice.
• Black Iron proposed killing the seventy-odd captives so they would not slow the fugitives, and Lin Fei fell silent, reflecting on Black Iron’s view of other races.

Lin Fei decided to release those below the Lower Spirit level before reaching Blood-Colored Bug Ridge and offered the rest a place in his army. As his followers set out for the City of Sin, Lin Fei aimed to reach the Earth Spirit realm and unify it, while four first-rank officials departed the ruins of Blue Sky Manor.

• Lin Fei announced that captives and guards below the Lower Spirit level could leave to avoid Blood-Colored Bug Ridge’s radiation, and stopped his subordinates from attacking the captives who cursed him.
• Gu Xiaoyu asked to follow Lin Fei, and he allowed anyone at Lower Spirit strength or above to join his command regardless of race or past.
• Lin Fei accepted the Starlight Race cultivator Starlight Forever Shines Across the Land and nicknamed him A Xing.
• Fifty-two cultivators chose to follow Lin Fei and Black Iron, including twelve captives, while others below ninth-level arcanist strength were barred from joining.
• Black Iron renewed his resolve to fight for Lin Fei, while Lin Fei set himself the goal of reaching the Earth Spirit realm and unifying the City of Sin.
• Four first-rank officials left the ruins of Blue Sky Manor with grim expressions.

Lin Fei brought his group to the edge of Blood-Colored Bug Ridge, released most of his captives, and led the fifty-two who stayed into the dangerous region. As the group began adjusting to its strange radiation, Gu Xiaoyu reported that her skin felt itchy and prickly.

• Ao Zongping, Ao Sanniang, Bao Sanniang, and the imposing middle-aged man argued over who would report Lin Fei's escape to the King of Southern Ridge, then agreed to go together.
• Lin Fei's arcane airship reached Blood-Colored Bug Ridge, where he saw mutated creatures and sensed radiation that blocked his divine sense.
• Lin Fei freed his captives, and most fled while fifty-two people chose to remain with him.
• Lin Fei stored the arcane airship in his spatial ring and led the group onto the dried blood-colored land.
• Lin Fei stopped the ninth-level arcanists from entering and asked how the radiation affected them, and Gu Xiaoyu described an itchy, stinging sensation.

Lin Fei led his group into Blood-Colored Bug Ridge, where deadly radiation forced the level-nine arcanists to turn back. Night fell before Lin Fei’s party could find shelter, and a ghostly spirit’s scream stirred the jungle into chaos.

• A level-nine arcanist suffered blistering injuries after entering Blood-Colored Bug Ridge, and Lin Fei healed him with a Holy Light Healing Spell.
• The level-nine arcanists left Lin Fei’s group with cultivation resources, while Zhou Ronghao and the others vowed to reach Lower Spirit and follow Lin Fei later.
• Lin Fei led the remaining forty-two people on a forced march, but they failed to find a safe camp before nightfall.
• As eerie sounds filled the darkness, Gu Xiaoyu clung to Lin Fei, and a floating white spirit appeared and screamed.
• The spirit’s scream stirred the Insect Race across the jungle, and Lin Fei ordered everyone to run.

Lin Fei led the group through a forest packed with mutated insects, using fire and wind to cut a path while warning the arcanists that lightning was ineffective. As a colossal, poisonous centipede erupted from underground, Lin Fei told Gu Xiaoyu to hold on as the group faced the new threat.

• Lin Fei and the arcanists illuminated the forest and found themselves surrounded by mutated insects and mutated souls.
• Gu Xiaoyu clung to Lin Fei as he burned a wolf spider, cut down attacking insects, and told her that lightning attacks would be ineffective.
• Lin Fei led the group through the swarm with walls of fire and wind, while flying insects approached overhead.
• A millstone-thick centipede nearly a hundred meters long burst from the earth, spreading corrosive mist and biological toxin that killed other insects.
• Lin Fei told Gu Xiaoyu to hold tight, and she wrapped herself around him as the group confronted the centipede.

Lin Fei used the no-flight rule and his spells to kill the mutated centipede and drive off the other insects. He checked his battered group afterward, whose injuries were treatable but whose depleted Arcana energy left them vulnerable in the jungle.

• Lin Fei blasted the mutated centipede with Evil-Breaking Holy Light, then used Weightlessness Spell to make it rise and Gravity Spell to crush it when the no-flight rule pulled it back down.
• The other mutated insects retreated after Lin Fei killed their leader and drove them away with Mind Storm.
• Gu Xiaoyu jumped off Lin Fei’s back and felt ashamed that he had given her a sense of security despite being her enemy.
• Lin Fei checked the group and found that everyone was alive, but their wounds, poison, and depleted Arcana energy left them at risk from another attack.

Lin Fei healed the group and led them through the dangerous forest toward a glowing mushroom settlement inhabited by several powerful races. The settlement’s God Race leader stopped the others from driving them away and asked Lin Fei what he could offer in exchange for shelter.

• Lin Fei used three healing spells to treat the group, while Black Iron wondered how Lin Fei had mastered so many kinds of magic.
• Black Iron said the ghosts had been killed, and Lin Fei ordered everyone to gather the monster corpses and leave before more creatures arrived.
• Lin Fei spotted a glowing mushroom forest where insect monsters would not venture, then led the group toward it despite Black Iron’s concerns.
• Lin Fei stopped everyone at the forest’s edge after detecting runic restrictions and technological land mines.
• Beings of the Crystal, Many-Eyed, Arcana, and God Races challenged the group; Lin Fei requested shelter for one night and promised a gift.
• The God Race leader silenced the others and asked Lin Fei what he could give in exchange for shelter.

Lin Fei tried to bargain for shelter in the mushroom forest, but the cultivators inside planned to lure night beasts toward his group and seize their belongings. With monsters charging and no safe way to retreat, Lin Fei destroyed the Arcana airship against the forest’s restrictions, dragging everyone into a deadly battle.

• Lin Fei offered an Upper Spirit-level mutated centipede corpse, then added the monster corpses his group had collected when a Crystal Clan cultivator demanded more.
• An arcanist in the pure land revealed that the cultivators planned to attract night beasts and take the survivors’ belongings, while Lin Fei warned he would destroy their shelter.
• The God Race expert ordered energy beams fired into the sky, drawing monsters from across the jungle toward Lin Fei’s group.
• Lin Fei summoned the Arcana airship and sent it crashing into the restrictions in a self-destructing assault.
• The explosion shattered the rune crystals and triggered the land mines, destroying the mushroom forest as Lin Fei and his companions shielded themselves from the debris.
• The enraged cultivators inside the pure land called for attacks against Lin Fei and his group.

Lin Fei and his companions were caught in a chaotic battle when night beasts and five enormous upper spirit beasts swarmed the area. As the group fought to survive, Lin Fei stunned Black Iron by using his staff in close combat and breaking one of the house centipede’s legs.

• Lin Fei ordered a retreat as night beasts and wronged souls flooded in, but the beasts split the group from the Pure Land cultivators and forced both sides into battle.
• The house centipede targeted Lin Fei, shattered his telekinetic barrier, and drove him to defend himself while the other leader-level beasts attacked upper spirit experts.
• Black Iron struggled against the longhorn beetle, while A Xing blasted waves of night beasts with his tentacles and Gu Xiaoyu killed an insect with a punch despite suffering acid burns.
• Lin Fei’s Arcana practitioners held a coordinated battle formation, shielding one another and striking with Holy Light Evil-Breaking Slash.
• Lin Fei used Wind-Riding Technique and Strength Technique, wielded his staff like a melee weapon, blocked the house centipede’s attacks, and broke one of its legs, leaving Black Iron stunned.

Lin Fei conserved his depleted arcane energy by fighting a mutant house centipede in close combat, while a God Race expert faced three Night Beast leaders. Lin Fei tore open the centipede’s back, and both battles continued.

• Lin Fei used refined staff techniques to overpower the mutant house centipede while conserving his arcane energy and mental power.
• The God Race expert was attacked by two Upper Spirit Night Beast leaders and another Night Beast, so he armed himself and fought back with his energy blade.
• Lin Fei smashed the centipede’s eyes, removed four pairs of its blade-legs, and knocked off one venomous fang.
• Lin Fei seized a fallen blade-leg, stabbed it into the centipede’s back, and ran across its dorsal plate, peeling the back open as the blade-leg heated until it burst into flames.

Lin Fei fought through the night beasts, rescued Gu Xiaoyu from venomous bees, and carried her to help Black Iron. He struck the mutated longhorn beetle hard enough to crack its carapace, interrupting its attack.

• Lin Fei escaped the dying centipede and smashed a cockroach with his scepter, impressing A Xing as he tore through the night beasts.
• Lin Fei shielded Gu Xiaoyu from the venomous bees and reflected their needles back, killing the swarm.
• Lin Fei forced the needles out of Gu Xiaoyu, healed her, and ordered her onto his back.
• Lin Fei sprinted to Black Iron and struck the mutated longhorn beetle, staggering it and cracking its carapace.

Lin Fei and Black Iron defeated the mutated longhorn beetle, and Lin Fei killed it by breaking through its skull from inside while carrying Gu Xiaoyu. After the remaining monsters fled, Lin Fei noticed a God Race expert beheading the last Night Beast leader.

• Lin Fei and Black Iron attacked the mutated longhorn beetle together, and Lin Fei smashed off its left pincer.
• Lin Fei released his scepter to expose the beetle's eye, then struck its left eye and plunged inside its skull with Gu Xiaoyu.
• Lin Fei used Inch Power: Heaven-Splitting to burst through the beetle's skull and destroy its brain, killing it.
• Lin Fei ordered Black Iron to clear the battlefield as the monsters fled after their leaders were killed.
• Lin Fei grew wary when a God Race expert severed the head of the last Night Beast leader.

Lin Fei and Black Iron fought a powerful God Race expert whom Black Iron suspected was a Reserve Sanctuary Warrior. The battle left Black Iron badly wounded, and the God Race expert charged forward with a powerful attack.

• The God Race expert drove away the Night Beasts after killing several beast leaders, while Lin Fei and Black Iron assessed his strength and casualties.
• Black Iron identified the God Race expert as a possible Reserve Sanctuary Warrior, and Lin Fei prepared to use Gene Devouring to gain his powerful physique.
• The God Race expert attacked Lin Fei with Leaping Slash, carving a vast crater into the ground, and Lin Fei sent Gu Xiaoyu to A Xing before joining the fight with Black Iron.
• The God Race expert overwhelmed Black Iron at close range with Whirling Consecutive Slash, and Lin Fei kicked Black Iron clear of a strike that nearly severed his head.
• Lin Fei and Black Iron struck the God Race expert with Telekinetic Barrier, driving him backward, but he charged again with Charged Dashing Slash.

Lin Fei and Black Iron fought off the God Race expert, who fled after Lin Fei blocked his strongest strike and smashed his face. After capturing the wounded enemies left in the pure land, Lin Fei focused on the Many-Eyed Race Upper Spirit’s unusual eyes and decided his genes were worth devouring.

• Lin Fei blocked the God Race expert’s strike meant for Black Iron, but the expert’s follow-up severed Black Iron’s left arm.
• Lin Fei smashed the weakened God Race expert in the face, sending him flying, and healed Black Iron as the expert fled.
• Lin Fei revealed that the force of his defense had badly injured his own body and ordered his companions to capture the enemies remaining in the pure land.
• Black Iron led the group in capturing the wounded survivors, while Lin Fei forbade pursuit of those who had escaped.
• Lin Fei noticed the Many-Eyed Race Upper Spirit’s unusual eyes and decided the alien’s genes were worth devouring.

Lin Fei led his group to an unoccupied sanctuary and learned that the unconscious God Race expert was the renowned Reserve Sanctuary Warrior Alkes Monde. After securing the camp, Lin Fei killed the Many-Eyed Race prisoner and used the Arcane Core to devour his genes, leaving him unconscious as his eyes began to change.

• Lin Fei offered the prisoners a chance to live if they proved useful and submitted to him, and Black Iron and the others killed those who refused.
• Nine prisoners guided Lin Fei's group toward an unoccupied sanctuary, and they set out after gathering the battlefield's valuables.
• The prisoners identified the captured God Race expert as Alkes Monde, a Reserve Sanctuary Warrior who had fled after killing a Behemoth prince.
• Lin Fei's group reached a mushroom-forest camp, where Lin Fei arranged watches and had Black Iron block perception around the stone house holding the prisoner.
• Lin Fei killed the Many-Eyed Race Upper Spirit and activated the Arcane Core's devouring ability, then spent his plundered resources to supply the energy it demanded.
• Lin Fei's vision went dark, his eyes began to ache and itch, and he sank into a semi-conscious sleep.