Recaps

A seven-colored box appeared in the secret realm, and Niu Gansan’s cultivation surged after he took it. When a sacred bead emerged from the box, it overwhelmed nearly everyone nearby, while Ji Wuchang’s Divine Soul Dao Platform absorbed its power and transformed his eyes.

• Ji Wuchang attacked the box with an explosive sword, but the box’s light shattered the blast and sent it to Niu Gansan.
• Niu Gansan fled with the box, then unleashed a soul-rending roar that destroyed an attacker’s axe and sent many people falling.
• Bu Yixian urged the crowd to stop Niu Gansan, but the box opened and released a seven-colored bead that forced most people to kneel or retreat.
• Ji Wuchang’s Divine Soul Dao Platform absorbed the bead’s invisible power, and purple Qi gathered in his eyes, changing how he saw the world.

Ji Wuchang saw the laws of the world through his purple eyes and severed the red threads draining the kneeling people. He used the Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique to wound King Yu's Heavenly Eye, which split open and revealed a figure dressed as the Great Yu Dynasty's king.

• Ji Wuchang saw streams of rule power and recognized the Law of Water, the Law of Lightning, and King Yu's Heavenly Eye.
• King Yu's Heavenly Eye pierced ten kneeling people with red threads and drained their blood, so Ji Wuchang severed the threads with Autumn Wind Kill.
• The people regained their senses and fled as King Yu's Heavenly Eye turned blood-red and attacked Ji Wuchang with a saber-like beam.
• Ji Wuchang discovered he could absorb the Law of Lightning but not the unrelated Law of Water, then dodged the Heavenly Eye's attack.
• Ji Wuchang used the Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique to slash the blood-red eye with rule power, cracking it and shattering divine souls within.
• The blood-red eye split open, and a figure in purple-gold dragon robes and a royal crown stepped out.

Ji Wuchang and the others fought the royal-robed man’s army of powerful puppets after soul essence stones emerged from the shattered foes. As Ji Wuchang gathered stones for Ji Yaoyao, the royal-robed man slipped into a hole, and Ji Wuchang felt the same unsettling danger he had sensed before.

• The wounded royal-robed man summoned more than two hundred vacant-eyed puppets to attack everyone in the secret realm.
• Gan Yue, Bu Yixian, and Xie Zhen urged the fighters to unite, promising their cities would not seize anyone’s treasures.
• The fighters discovered soul essence stones inside the destroyed puppets, and Ji Yaoyao asked Ji Wuchang to collect them for her.
• Ji Wuchang killed several powerful puppets and caught their soul essence stones, which his storage ring absorbed for Ji Yaoyao.
• Ji Wuchang saw the royal-robed man descend into a hole and sensed the ominous feeling he had experienced when the royal city first appeared.

Ji Wuchang and the others discovered that a formation had trapped them as Devil Qi swept through the secret realm. While Gan Yue organized the survivors to break out together, Ji Wuchang crossed the barrier and emerged above the city.

• Ji Wuchang killed puppets to collect soul essence stones for Ji Yaoyao as a translucent formation sealed the battlefield.
• A fighter discovered the barrier, and the trapped people failed to break through as Devil Qi began surging toward them.
• Ji Wuchang recognized the danger posed by the Devil Qi and saw Jia Yi pass through the barrier.
• Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, and Bu Yixian agreed to cooperate, and Gan Yue ordered the survivors to form groups for the Heavenly Dragon Nine-Bend Formation.
• Ji Wuchang passed through the barrier with the Great Void Phantom Technique, found Devil Qi on the other side too, then vanished and reappeared above the city.

Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi faced the crowned man, whose shield drew on the attacks of more than two hundred people trapped below. As Jia Yi prepared a way to disable it and Ji Wuchang readied a killing strike, the Demonic Qi surged toward the people below and his ominous premonition intensified.

• Ji Wuchang found Jia Yi above a vast barrier contracting around the people below and saw the crowned man absorbing blood mist to strengthen himself.
• Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi attacked the crowned man together, but he formed a spiritual shield from the combined power of the people’s attacks and shattered their sword strikes.
• Jia Yi offered to stop the shield for half a breath, and Ji Wuchang agreed to use a killing move with a sixty percent chance of success.
• Jia Yi began preparing a blood-red turtle shell while Ji Wuchang readied himself to strike the crowned man.
• Ji Wuchang noticed the crowned man’s Demonic Qi vanish beneath the light of his vertical eye, while the Demonic Qi surged toward the chaotic people below and his ominous premonition grew stronger.

Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi broke the barrier and freed Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, Bu Yixian, and the others, but the man in royal robes rose again, possessed by an ancient voice. His terrifying attack erased the group’s counterattack and melted two Six Spirits Realm Ninth Level cultivators along with their souls.

• Jia Yi used the blood-red turtle shell to corrode and shatter the spiritual power shield, and Ji Wuchang struck down the man in royal robes with his sword technique.
• The barrier collapsed, freeing Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, Bu Yixian, and the others, who thanked Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi.
• Ji Wuchang warned everyone to retreat when the fallen man rose again, surrounded by Demonic Qi and speaking in an aged voice.
• The revived figure impaled several people with iron chains and drained their blood as Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, Bu Yixian, and others attacked him.
• The figure fired a ray from the eye between his brows, obliterating the attacks and melting two cultivators and their souls despite Gan Yue’s shields.

Ji Wuchang confronted the powerful Devil Creature to buy time for the fleeing cultivators, using the Ji Family’s World-Destroying Millstone Technique. After the Devil Creature shattered his millstone, Ji Wuchang launched another attack with his Three-Legged Golden Crow and great purple sun.

• Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, Bu Yixian, and the others fled when they realized the Devil Creature was far stronger than them.
• The Devil Creature attacked the fleeing cultivators with its chains, and Ji Wuchang chose to stay and hold it off.
• Ji Wuchang unleashed Grinding Thunder and Fire, stunning the onlookers and revealing to Ji Boshang and Ji Yongming that he had mastered the technique’s second form.
• The Devil Creature struck the millstone with its vertical-eye beam and chains until it shattered, leaving Ji Wuchang with only two-thirds of his spiritual power.
• Ji Wuchang summoned the Three-Legged Golden Crow and sent it charging at the Devil Creature with a great purple sun on its back.

Ji Wuchang battled a powerful Devil Creature until Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, and Bu Yixian joined forces and used their hidden lifesaving treasures to strike it down. The Devil Creature's severed halves began rejoining, leaving everyone afraid and with no remaining measures to stop it.

• Gan Yue persuaded Xie Zhen and Bu Yixian to help Ji Wuchang, and the three prepared their city lords' lifesaving treasures.
• Ji Wuchang's Three-Legged Golden Crow attacked the Devil Creature, but both the crow and its purple blazing sun were destroyed, leaving Ji Wuchang badly depleted.
• Bu Yixian used his porcelain bottle to draw the Devil Creature inside, but it broke free and shattered the bottle.
• Xie Zhen's saber struck the Devil Creature, and Gan Yue's sword followed, cutting it in two.
• The Devil Creature's severed halves flew toward each other to rejoin, while Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, and Bu Yixian realized they had no measures left to stop it.

Ji Wuchang unleashed Thunder Purgatory and summoned a Thunder Dragon to destroy the regenerating demonic body. King Yu’s Heavenly Eye flew into his forehead and transformed into a purple-gold eye before the demon’s final head turned to ash.

• Ji Wuchang trapped the demonic body’s two halves in Thunder Purgatory, but they continued to draw together despite the lightning.
• Ji Wuchang summoned a thousand-zhang Thunder Dragon and sent it into the lightning cage, greatly intensifying its power.
• The Thunder Dragon’s lightning reduced the demonic body to ash, while King Yu’s Heavenly Eye emerged from the flames and entered Ji Wuchang’s forehead.
• Purple qi from Ji Wuchang’s soul sea flowed into King Yu’s Heavenly Eye and changed it from gold to purple-gold.
• The demonic body’s remaining head turned to ash, and Ji Wuchang recalled the Thunder Dragon and Thunder Purgatory into his body.

After killing the Devil Race member, Ji Wuchang recovered in the secret realm and left without pursuing its treasures. Outside, robbers led by Qi Yun demanded his storage ring, giving Ji Wuchang a chance to obtain the seven tokens he still needed.

• Ji Wuchang watched the palace appear but stayed behind to recover, then checked in and received five years of cultivation.
• After an hour, Ji Wuchang recovered more than seventy percent of his spiritual power and left the secret realm.
• A group waiting outside noticed Ji Wuchang emerge and, led by a burly man at the Six Spirits Realm Eighth Level, demanded his storage ring.
• Ji Wuchang recognized Song Zhengming, Bai Qianqian, Qin Meng, and others among the onlookers, then realized the robbers might help him find the seven tokens he still needed.
• Qi Yun threatened Ji Wuchang, while Bai Qianqian and Qin Meng watched sympathetically but did not intervene.

Ji Wuchang took four cultivators’ tokens and belongings, then effortlessly defeated them when they attacked. He provoked Song Zhengjiang into a fight, and the chapter ended as Song Zhengjiang unleashed three sword strikes at him.

• Ji Wuchang swiftly took the four men’s storage rings, removed their tokens and valuables, and returned the emptied rings.
• When the four men attacked to reclaim their belongings, Ji Wuchang knocked them all from the sky with a single punch each.
• Song Zhengjiang confronted Ji Wuchang, who insulted and challenged him until Song Zhengjiang lunged forward with his sword.
• Song Zhengjiang slashed three times, sending three giant python-shaped sword lights toward Ji Wuchang as Song Zhengming, Bai Qianqian, and Qin Meng watched.

Ji Wuchang killed Song Zhengjiang and Song Zhengming, then took their storage rings and found three tokens inside. He announced that he would rob everyone at the gathering and gave them ten breaths to hand over their tokens.

• Ji Wuchang appeared beside Song Zhengjiang and beat him with two punches.
• Ji Wuchang stomped Song Zhengjiang into the ground, then seized and destroyed his fleeing Primordial Spirit.
• Song Zhengming attacked Ji Wuchang with his sword and split-soul clones, but Ji Wuchang vanished and stabbed him through the crown of his head.
• Ji Wuchang pulled the Netherworld Sword from Song Zhengming's skull and took both brothers' storage rings, finding three tokens inside.
• Ji Wuchang announced that everyone at the gathering had to hand over their tokens within ten breaths or face his attack.

Ji Wuchang forced the token holders at the Hundred-City Grand Battle to surrender their tokens, threatening to take their storage rings if they refused. After collecting seven more, he offered to sell them back for fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones each, leaving the crowd wary of being robbed again.

• Ji Wuchang gave the token holders five breaths to surrender their tokens, and Qi Changming reluctantly handed his over after Huang Wan urged him to choose his life over the token.
• When Ji Wuchang demanded to inspect a burly man's storage ring, Feng Tieniu named seven other token holders, including Qin Meng and Bai Qianqian.
• Ji Wuchang demanded that the newly identified token holders surrender their tokens, and they reluctantly tossed them to him.
• Ji Wuchang announced that he would sell some of the tokens for fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones apiece, while the crowd worried he might take them back after the sale.

Ji Wuchang sold the remaining Star-Chasing Mountain tokens and gained the respect of cultivators emerging from the secret realm. As the preliminary selection neared its end, the group flew toward the central region and spotted the competition platform.

• Qi Changming bought a token from Ji Wuchang for fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones, and Ji Wuchang promised to protect its buyers.
• Qin Meng and the other waiting cultivators bought the rest of Ji Wuchang's seven tokens, earning him three hundred and fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Ji Wuchang spent five thousand Fortune Points on a Reincarnation Dream Experience Card before a Dao Severing Realm cultivator emerged and respectfully greeted him.
• Cultivators returning from the secret realm collected their reserved tokens, and two more people bought tokens from Ji Wuchang.
• As the preliminary selection ended, the crowd traveled toward the central region of Star-Chasing Mountain, where they saw a large platform and waiting figures.

At the Hundred-City Grand Battle’s final venue, Li Xueqin and Li Muxin traded barbs over their contestants and the way tokens had been awarded. Li Muxin ordered corrupt guards seized after Li Xueqin exposed their bribery, while the rivalry between the sisters remained unresolved.

• Li Muxin taunted Li Xueqin about how many people remained on her side, and Li Xueqin suggested that Flying Flood Dragon City’s contestants had nearly been wiped out.
• Ji Wuchang noticed Zhou Guangrong among Li Xueqin’s group, then joined the contestants who had earned tokens when Li Chongshan called them forward.
• Li Muxin praised Ji Wuchang’s achievement, and Li Xueqin pointed out that contestants on her side had earned their tokens through their own abilities.
• Li Xueqin accused Li Muxin’s guards of taking gifts in exchange for tokens, prompting Li Muxin to order the guards seized and questioned.
• Li Xueqin further accused Li Muxin of accepting gifts herself, leaving Li Muxin furious and silent while Li Xueqin smiled at having embarrassed her.

Ji Wuchang waited as the token holders began fighting for places in the Thousand-City Battle, while Wei Feiluan and Zhang Meier discussed killing him in a later match. When Ji Wuchang’s turn came, Yang Yuanzheng conceded immediately, advancing him without a fight.

• Li Xueqin ordered the 186 token holders divided into five groups to fight in pairs, with winners advancing and losers leaving.
• Wei Feiluan identified Ji Wuchang to Zhang Meier and warned her about his speed and strength.
• Zhang Meier offered to fight Ji Wuchang, but Wei Feiluan accepted her offer rather than face him himself.
• Yang Yuanzheng conceded to Ji Wuchang before they took the platform, and Li Chongshan announced Ji Wuchang’s victory.
• Ji Wuchang expected he might not need to fight in the next round and showed no interest in competing for the top ten.

Ninth Princess Li Xueqin investigated Ji Wuchang and learned he was a disciple of Zhou Haotian, then sent an attendant to verify the information. Ji Wuchang entered his next fight against Zhang Weiying, who was stunned when Ji Wuchang suddenly appeared before him.

• Li Xueqin questioned Zhou Guangrong about Ji Wuchang, and Zhou Guangrong revealed Ji Wuchang was a disciple of Zhou Haotian from the Heavenly Star Sect.
• Li Xueqin ordered an attendant to investigate Ji Wuchang’s background, while Zhou Guangrong watched with a hidden sneer.
• Ji Wuchang found the fighting platforms dull until his turn came and he faced Zhang Weiying of Fushu City.
• Zhang Weiying looked down on Ji Wuchang’s lower cultivation and attacked with his spear and overwhelming spiritual pressure.
• Ji Wuchang moved like a phantom and appeared directly before Zhang Weiying, startling him into stumbling backward.

Ji Wuchang defeated Zhang Weiying with overwhelming speed, drawing the attention of the princesses and their attendants. After the second round ended, the fifty selected competitors were invited to fight for the top ten, but Ji Wuchang stayed seated as others stepped forward.

• Ji Wuchang struck Zhang Weiying hard enough to send him crashing into a crater, while Li Chongshan watched him with hostility and Yang Yuanzheng felt relieved he had conceded earlier.
• Li Xueqin admired Ji Wuchang's speed, while Zhao Xiuya told Li Muxin that Ji Wuchang was Zhou Wudi and had been responsible for the heavy losses suffered by Flying Flood Dragon City.
• Ji Wuchang received 300 Fortune Points for defeating Zhang Weiying, then returned to his seat as the second round concluded and Zhang Weiying was included among the fifty selected competitors.
• Li Chongshan announced that the fifty could compete for the top ten, with rewards including a sixth-grade Realm-Breaking Pill, an official position, and dynasty resources.
• Gan Yue, Bu Yixian, Xie Zhen, Jia Yi, and others stepped forward to compete, while Ji Wuchang remained seated.

Ji Wuchang used his accumulated cultivation to master the Azure Dragon Tyrant Leg Art, then took a pill that improved his body and triggered another breakthrough. As his body began to undergo a profound transformation, he remained at Star-Chasing Mountain while Gan Yue and Bu Yixian fought in the arena.

• Ji Wuchang ignored the lineage reward and Zhou Guangrong, then checked in at Star-Chasing Mountain and received four years of cultivation and four Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang spent all thirty-two years of accumulated cultivation to raise the Azure Dragon Tyrant Leg Art to great perfection.
• Ji Wuchang used two prize draws and obtained 150 Fortune Points and a High-Grade Marrow-Washing and Meridian-Cleansing Pill.
• While Gan Yue fought Bu Yixian in the arena, Ji Wuchang swallowed the pill and circulated the Purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art as it purged impurities from his body.
• Ji Wuchang broke through to the Six Spirits Realm Fourth Level, startling those nearby with his powerful presence, and felt his body beginning to undergo sublimation.

Ji Wuchang checked the System Shop’s new items and watched Zhang Meier defeat Wei Feiluan. Li Xueqin then challenged Li Muxin to settle their rivalry with a platform defense battle, and Li Muxin accepted.

• Ji Wuchang used his accumulated flash sales, gained a Supreme Summoning Card and Fortune Points, and reviewed his cultivation and system status.
• Ji Wuchang found three new System Shop items: Thousand Illusion Spirit Pupil Fragments, a Mind-Reading Rune, and the Glazed Vajra Body.
• Ji Wuchang watched Zhang Meier suppress Wei Feiluan and sensed that she was holding back a special power.
• Li Muxin taunted Li Xueqin about the strength of their chosen competitors, and Li Xueqin proposed a platform defense battle with five fighters on each side.
• Zhang Meier struck Wei Feiluan down and won their match, while Li Muxin accepted Li Xueqin’s challenge.

Ji Wuchang used a Reincarnation Dream Experience Card and witnessed a giant kill a ferocious beast with Heaven-Treading Steps. After returning to his room, he understood how the technique related to Heart-Treading Steps and upgraded his own footwork.

• Ji Wuchang instructed Yaoyao to stand guard, set up warning barriers, and crushed the Reincarnation Dream Experience Card.
• Ji Wuchang wandered through mist and discovered that what he had mistaken for a mountain was the foot of a giant.
• Ji Wuchang watched the giant battle a massive ferocious beast, which tore flesh from the giant's arm.
• The giant used Heaven-Treading Steps to crush the beast in one blow, then began eating its flesh.
• Ji Wuchang studied the giant's step and realized that Heaven-Treading Steps drew on the momentum of heaven and earth and shared a root with Heart-Treading Steps.
• Ji Wuchang awakened in his room and understood that his Heart-Treading Steps would become several times more powerful.

Ji Wuchang celebrated the techniques he had gained from three Reincarnation Dream Experience Cards and looked forward to earning more Fortune Points at the Thousand-City Battle. Meanwhile, Zhao Lianpeng reported Ji Wuchang’s record to Li Xueqin, who decided to include him in her wager with her seventh sister.

• Ji Wuchang recalled gaining Azure Sparrow Nine Sword Art, Grinding Thunder and Fire, and Heaven-Treading Steps from three Reincarnation Dream Experience Cards, and resolved to exchange for more.
• Zhao Lianpeng met Li Xueqin in her tent and reported Snow Net’s findings about Ji Wuchang.
• Zhao Lianpeng described how Ji Wuchang had fought off attackers at Xinglong City, won the Dao Discussion Competition, and become Zhou Haotian’s first disciple.
• Zhao Lianpeng recounted Ji Wuchang’s role in exposing the secret realm and defeating Flying Flood Dragon City’s cultivators, including forcing Wei Feiluan to flee.
• Li Xueqin ordered Zhao Lianpeng to keep the findings secret and decided to use Ji Wuchang in her wager with her seventh sister.

Ji Wuchang used ten years of cultivation to master Heaven-Treading Steps, enduring a painful transformation as he absorbed its power of laws. After the Ninth Princess summoned him, he finished cultivating and followed her maid to her tent, still unsure why she wanted to see him.

• Ji Wuchang spent ten years of cultivation on Heaven-Treading Steps and reached major accomplishment, learning that its single step drew on the power of laws to deliver a killing blow.
• As the power of laws transformed his feet, a maid arrived and announced that the Ninth Princess wanted to see Young Master Zhou Wudi.
• Ji Wuchang told the maid to wait while he completed his cultivation, and onlookers gathered outside his house and discussed his reputation.
• Gan Yue told Bu Yixian and Xie Zhen that Young Master Zhou Wudi was actually Ji Wuchang, a disciple of Peak Master Zhou of Heavenly Star Peak.
• Ji Wuchang finished cultivating, found that Heaven-Treading Steps had also strengthened his Heart-Treading Steps, then washed and followed the maid to the Ninth Princess's tent.

Ji Wuchang confronted Li Xueqin at her tent, where Li Chongshan tried to force him to kneel. Ji Wuchang killed Li Chongshan in a single devastating attack, leaving Li Xueqin, Zhao Lianpeng, and the maidservants stunned.

• Li Xueqin questioned Ji Wuchang about his identity and threatened him for disrupting the Heavenly Star Dynasty's talent selection ceremony.
• Li Xueqin signaled Li Chongshan to teach Ji Wuchang a lesson, and Li Chongshan used his Dao Severing Realm pressure to try to immobilize him.
• Ji Wuchang vanished with Heaven-Treading Steps and struck Li Chongshan with Divine Soul Spikes and the Hundredfold Sublimation Instant Kill Technique.
• Ji Wuchang stomped Li Chongshan into the ground, shattering his divine soul and killing him.
• Ji Wuchang returned to his seat and calmly drank tea while Li Xueqin, Zhao Lianpeng, and the maidservants stared in shock.

Ji Wuchang killed Li Chongshan after Li Xueqin ordered him to bully and threaten him, then concealed the strain his powerful technique had caused. Li Xueqin covered up the incident for the arriving city lords and guards, then confronted Ji Wuchang about his strength, but he refused to answer.

• Ji Boshang praised Ji Wuchang for killing Li Chongshan and privately wondered at the unknown techniques and rule power he had displayed.
• Ji Wuchang received 999 Fortune Points for killing Li Chongshan, then returned to the main tent while hiding his pain and loss of spiritual power.
• Li Xueqin told the arriving Li Qiankun and others that Li Chongshan had acted maliciously and that Attendant Zhao had killed him, so they withdrew with the corpse.
• Ji Wuchang apologized to Li Xueqin for failing to control his strength, though she doubted his excuse and asked what his cultivation level was.
• Ji Wuchang avoided answering Li Xueqin, who realized how dangerous he was and that she could not easily control him.