Recaps

After surviving the Taotie King's self-detonation, Chu Tiannan reached Martial God Lesser Perfection but collapsed from exhaustion. Reinforcements arrived as the survivors faced the remaining Taotie Beasts, and the newcomer recognized Chu Tiannan as his missing Third Brother.

• The Chaos Cloak brought Luo'er, Martial God Lei Huang, and Chu Tianxi out of the blast, while Luo'er was unconscious and the others were badly injured.
• Chu Tiannan emerged unhurt from the explosion, then received system rewards and a breakthrough notification before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Martial God Western Emperor caught Chu Tiannan and noticed the nameplate at his torn collar as thousands of Taotie Beasts charged the group.
• Martial God Lei Huang prepared to fight, but reinforcements swept in and killed many of the Taotie Beasts.
• A black-haired young man with a pitch-black spear protected Chu Tianxi and Chu Tiannan, and Chu Tianxi recognized him as his Big Brother.
• The newcomer trembled and announced that he had found Third Brother.

Chu Tiannan glimpsed a strange scene in his soul ocean, where gigantic winged figures discussed a threat and a mysterious ruler ordered them to stop it from breaking through. After awakening, he prepared for battle with powerful equipment and techniques, then left his room.

• Chu Tiannan entered a magnificent hall in his soul ocean and saw immense figures, including a six-winged figure, bow before a ruler on a throne.
• The ruler warned that if an unknown entity broke through, everyone would die, but Chu Tiannan was frozen and forced out before he could see the ruler’s face.
• Chu Tiannan awoke in his room and wondered whether his lost memories were connected to his Martial Artist level.
• Chu Tiannan summoned Heavenly Sin Ten Directions and put on an SSS-rank combat suit brought by Chaos Cloak.
• Chu Tiannan learned the remaining Thunder Qilin Combat Method, strapped on the Heaven-Deriving Sword, and left through the window as a black shadow.

Shen Tianwu learned that a supposedly dead enemy was still alive and called for a Supreme Council meeting. Meanwhile, Chu Tiannan found a hidden prison in a strange valley while searching for the captured Great Wall Protection Guard.

• Shen Cangsheng reported his findings to Shen Tianwu, revealing that the Martial God Alliance’s foremost martial god had secretly reached councilor level.
• Shen Tianwu told another councilor that the enemy was not dead, then agreed to convene the Supreme Council.
• Chu Tiannan searched the mountain forest for the captured Great Wall Protection Guard and recalled the term “Gate of Darkness” from the Red Moon Demon’s memories.
• Chu Tiannan used Heavenly Sin Ten Directions to find an invisible barrier by a waterfall, then cut through it with the Heaven-Deriving Sword.
• Chu Tiannan entered the dark purple valley, disguised himself with the Chaos Cloak, and began cautiously scouting the prison guarded by clown puppets.
• While hiding and keeping watch with his soul perception, Chu Tiannan activated his remaining prize wheel draw.

Chu Tiannan used his Chaos Cloak and a Sentry Ward to scout the prison-like building where his companions were held. After the Devouring System assigned him a rescue mission, he killed a clown and transformed into its likeness to infiltrate the building.

• Chu Tiannan won a Sentry Ward from the lucky wheel and planted it at the building's entrance to monitor the area.
• He hid from two clowns, learned that captives were being guarded inside, and received a mission to rescue his companions for a tier-one cloak advancement stone.
• Chu Tiannan killed a lone clown with one sword strike and dragged its body to a secluded spot.
• He devoured the clown and used the Chaos Cloak to transform into its appearance and aura.
• The patrolling clowns failed to recognize him, and Chu Tiannan began his infiltration plan.

Chu Tiannan disguised himself as Third Xiong and followed Second Xiong through the demons’ eerie building, hoping to find An Liena and the others. He reached the prison on the top floor and was overcome with fury at what he saw inside.

• Chu Tiannan noticed Demon Beast blood in the corridor and was mistaken for Third Xiong by Second Xiong.
• Chu Tiannan concealed his identity and learned that Second Xiong and Third Xiong secretly coveted the Clown King’s throne.
• Chu Tiannan persuaded Second Xiong to take him to see the imprisoned humans, claiming they could drink some of their blood.
• Chu Tiannan and Second Xiong reached the top floor and opened the prison door, where the sight inside made Chu Tiannan tremble with anger.

Chu Tiannan infiltrated the room where his companions were imprisoned and secretly prepared them to escape. He killed Clown Second Xiong and freed everyone, leaving them ready to fight their way out.

• Chu Tiannan saw his companions bound to rune-covered steles and concealed his rage as he approached with Clown Second Xiong.
• Chu Tiannan pretended to crave An Liena’s blood, slipped her the Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella, and whispered instructions to her and the nearby Martial Gods.
• Clown Second Xiong caught Chu Tiannan moving among the prisoners, but a small golden snake pierced its chest and killed it.
• Chu Tiannan shed Clown Third Xiong’s skin, drew the Heaven-Deriving Sword, and shattered the steles holding his companions.

Chu Tiannan freed An Liena, Martial God Gale, and the other Great Wall Guard members from the purple restraints and prepared to lead them out. As they left, Gale revealed he had overheard a Purge Plan involving humans and demons, but sinister figures were waiting outside.

• Chu Tiannan shattered the cross-shaped steles, freeing the captives, and gave them SSS recovery potions.
• An Liena clung to Chu Tiannan after her rescue, while Martial God Gale thanked him for saving them.
• Chu Tiannan began leading everyone away, and Martial God Gale told him he had overheard mention of a Purge Plan involving humans and demons.
• A sinister voice mocked the group for trying to escape, and Chu Tiannan saw through the Sentry Ward that ugly figures were waiting outside.
• Chu Tiannan led the others out to face the figures lying in wait.

Chu Tiannan and his companions fought the clowns waiting outside the prison, while three clowns trapped him in the Demon's Eye Matrix. As the formation pressed down on him and threatened his soul, Chu Tiannan searched for a way to break it.

• Chu Tiannan assessed the clowns outside the prison and realized their strength no longer frightened him.
• The clowns attacked, forcing An Liena and the others to fight while Chu Tiannan faced three opponents alone.
• The three clowns formed the Demon's Eye Matrix, whose power threatened to suppress and destroy Chu Tiannan's soul.
• Chu Tiannan used Ten Directions Linked Movement to shield himself and studied the descending Demon's Eye for a way to break the formation.

Chu Tiannan struggled to break the Demon's Eye formation while its descending pressure weakened him and his allies. An Liena and the others attacked the eye together, creating an opening that let Chu Tiannan destroy it with Peerless Sword Intent.

• Chu Tiannan's thirteen Shadowless Sword strikes failed to penetrate the Demon's Eye's barrier, while the three clowns explained that the eye was both the formation core and the formation itself.
• The Demon's Eye's pressure disrupted Chu Tianbei's cannon and weakened Martial God Gale, as An Liena watched Chu Tiannan hold his ground.
• An Liena unleashed Thousand Mechanisms, Myriad Transformations, and Martial God Gale and the others joined her in attacking the Demon's Eye.
• Their combined attacks cracked the barrier and weakened the eye's suppressive force, prompting the three clowns to reinforce the formation.
• Chu Tiannan used Peerless Sword Intent to pierce the barrier and shatter the Demon's Eye.

Chu Tiannan destroyed the Demon's Eye formation and fought the surviving lead clown, while an unseen power intervened to stop him. He chose to kill the clown rather than evade the descending deathly white hand, and both were struck by it.

• The Demon's Eye exploded, and An Liena protected everyone from its shock wave with the Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella.
• The three clowns were injured when their formation broke, and two killed each other after blaming one another for the failure.
• The lead clown devoured its companions to recover, then challenged Chu Tiannan, who emerged unharmed from the Chaos Cloak.
• Chu Tiannan attacked the lead clown, but a deathly white hand descended from the sky after the clown called for help.
• Chu Tiannan kept his sword strike on course and killed the clown as the enormous hand crashed down on them both.

The Slaughter Martial God attacked Chu Tiannan and the others with the God-Slaying Great Hand Seal, revealing that he had sided with Demon and reached Martial God Great Perfection. As his next attack descended on the wounded group, someone laughed and sent ten streaks of golden light crashing into it.

• The Slaughter Martial God’s great hand seal struck Chu Tiannan’s position, leaving An Liena and the others unable to sense any Martial God aura.
• Chu Tianbei recognized the attack as the God-Slaying Great Hand Seal from the God-Slaying Record.
• An Liena accused the Slaughter Martial God of betraying the Alliance and launched her silver umbrellas at him, but his hand seal knocked them aside and wounded the group.
• The Slaughter Martial God appeared and prepared another attack, while Martial God Gale realized he had reached Martial God Great Perfection.
• As the Slaughter Martial God’s next hand seal descended, an unknown voice mocked him and ten streaks of golden light collided with the attack.

Chu Tiannan entered the battle against the Slaughter Martial God and broke through his techniques despite being a rank weaker. He used the God-Slaying Protective Armor to bait the Slaughter Martial God into defending, then struck him with Heavenly Sin Ten Directions, Ten Directions Linked Movement.

• Ten streaks of golden light destroyed the Slaughter Martial God's attack as Chu Tiannan emerged from the smoke and struck at him with sword qi.
• The Slaughter Martial God trapped Chu Tiannan in the God-Slaying Star-Plucking Hand, while An Liena watched helplessly.
• Chu Tiannan broke through the Star-Plucking Hand and unleashed an enhanced Shadowless Sword strike.
• The Slaughter Martial God blocked the sword strike with God-Slaying Protective Armor and laughed at Chu Tiannan.
• Chu Tiannan revealed that the sword strike had been bait and blasted the Slaughter Martial God with Heavenly Sin Ten Directions, Ten Directions Linked Movement.

Chu Tiannan and the Slaughter Martial God unleashed their strongest attacks against each other after Chu Tiannan’s Heavenly Sin Ten Directions failed to kill his opponent. Their powers collided in a catastrophic explosion, leaving the battle’s outcome unknown.

• Chu Tiannan’s Heavenly Sin Ten Directions battered the Slaughter Martial God, but An Liena sensed that he had survived.
• The Slaughter Martial God vowed to kill Chu Tiannan, then realized Chu Tiannan had killed his student Bert.
• The Slaughter Martial God gathered heaven and earth’s power into his God-Slaying Pagoda Hand as An Liena urged Chu Tiannan to retreat.
• Chu Tiannan gathered chaos and lightning into his self-created sword technique, Chaos Nirvana Lightning.
• Chu Tiannan’s Chaos Nirvana Lightning collided with the Slaughter Martial God’s attack, triggering a massive explosion.

Chu Tiannan and the others survived the devastating clash between the Chaos Sword Stream and the jade vortex, but the injured Chu Tiannan was left nearly powerless. As the Slaughter Martial God moved to kill him, a young man with a purple-scaled spear intervened and severed the Martial God’s right arm.

• Martial God Gale and An Liena led the group in using their powers and the Thousand Mechanisms Umbrella to withstand the explosion.
• The blast destroyed the building and shattered the surrounding space, but the shock wave weakened as it spread across Earth.
• Chu Tiannan and the Slaughter Martial God emerged badly injured, and Chu Tiannan realized his Martial God Power and Chaos Power were nearly depleted.
• The Slaughter Martial God sealed the space and lunged to seize Chu Tiannan as he tried to flee.
• An unnamed young man appeared with a purple-scaled spear and cut off the Slaughter Martial God’s right arm.

Chu Tiandong arrived with Chu Family experts, rescued Chu Tiannan, and severed the Slaughter Martial God's right arm. The Slaughter Martial God began to reveal a demonic plan but was killed before he could finish.

• Chu Tiandong tore off the Slaughter Martial God's right arm and told Chu Tiannan he would deal with his attacker.
• Chu Tianbei recognized Chu Tiandong as his big brother, and Chu Tiannan realized the rescuer was the Chu Family's eldest young master.
• The Chu Family enforcement team surrounded the Slaughter Martial God and ordered him to surrender.
• Chu Tiandong offered to spare the Slaughter Martial God if his information proved useful, and the captive began describing a demonic plan.
• An unknown attack shattered the Slaughter Martial God's heart before he could finish speaking, and he fell dead.

After the Slaughter Martial God was killed, Chu Tiannan and Chu Tiandong discovered a black-robed figure hiding nearby. The figure devastated the Chu Family Enforcement Team with a mysterious black weapon, then proved intangible when Chu Tiandong struck at him.

• The Slaughter Martial God died suddenly, and Chu Tiandong demanded that the hidden attacker reveal himself.
• Chu Tiannan detected a spatial fluctuation and struck a mountaintop with the Heaven-Deriving Sword, forcing a black-robed figure to appear.
• Chu Tiandong and the enforcement team moved to surround the figure, but Chu Tiannan and Chu Tiandong warned them too late.
• The figure brought down a black staff-like weapon, sending black rays into the enforcement team and injuring its members, including its captain.
• Chu Tiandong stabbed the black-robed figure with his spear, but found that it had no tangible body.

A mysterious black shadow reported to his white-robed master that the Slaughter Martial God was dead but the Chaos Martial God had survived. After the Chu Family rescued the wounded, Chu Tiandong saw that Chu Tiannan looked exactly like his father.

• Chu Tiandong failed to strike the black shadow, which escaped while Chu Tiannan watched.
• The black shadow knelt before a white-robed figure and reported killing the Slaughter Martial God but failing to capture the Chaos Martial God.
• The white-robed figure said the higher-ups had changed their plans for the Chaos Martial God and anticipated meeting him soon.
• Chu Family aircraft arrived to evacuate the wounded, and Chu Tiannan gave An Liena a recovery supplement.
• Chu Tianbei thanked Chu Tiandong for finding him through the Chu Family combat suit's satellite positioning.
• Chu Tiandong told Chu Tiannan that he looked exactly like his father.

Chu Tiandong recognized Chu Tiannan as his long-lost younger brother and urged him to return to the Chu Family. Chu Tiannan said his parents were dead and his father had never told him about the family, leaving Chu Tiandong stunned.

• Chu Tiandong showed Chu Tiannan a metal tag bearing his name and identified him as the Chu Family's missing third young master.
• Chu Tiandong said the family had searched for Chu Tiannan for eighteen years and that their grandfather longed for his return.
• An Liena wondered why East Martial Arts Hall records listed Chu Tiannan as an ordinary person from East China Base City.
• Chu Tiannan rejected Chu Tiandong's invitation to return, saying his father was gone and had never told him about the Chu Family.
• Chu Tiannan explained that both his parents had died, and Chu Tiandong sat down in disbelief, asking whether he knew what kind of person his father had been.

Chu Tiannan learned that his father had been the Chu Family’s greatest genius, but he delayed returning to the family so he could see Luo'er. After reuniting with her, he was slapped and then held tightly in her arms.

• Chu Tiandong called Chu Tiannan’s father the Chu Family’s greatest genius and asked whether he had really died.
• Chu Tiannan refused to discuss the Chu Family further until he could see Luo'er, and Chu Tiandong agreed to take him back to Martial God Island.
• Chu Tiannan flew to the seaside pavilion and found Luo'er waiting by the shore.
• Chu Tiannan apologized for leaving without telling her, and Luo'er slapped him before embracing him.

After consuming an SSS-grade enhancement serum, Chu Tiannan advanced to the peak of Martial God Lesser Perfection and learned more about his possible connection to the Chu Family. The chapter left him about to eat a meal Luo'er had made while she prepared to tell him something.

• Chu Tiannan meditated after consuming an SSS-grade enhancement serum, reaching the peak of Martial God Lesser Perfection and nearing Martial God Great Perfection.
• Chu Tiannan searched for the Chu Family and learned that its third son had left the family eighteen years earlier, the same year Chu Tiannan was born.
• Chu Tiannan wondered whether the missing third son was his father and realized he did not know his father's name.
• Luo'er surprised Chu Tiannan with food and said she had something to tell him while they ate.

Chu Tiannan and Luo'er shared a meal of bayberry soup that turned out to be delicious, then he told her he was connected to the ancient Chu Family. He left the decision about what to do next in Luo'er's hands.

• Chu Tiannan tasted Luo'er's burnt-looking bayberry soup and found it surprisingly sweet and delicious.
• Luo'er tasted the soup herself, agreed it was good, and teased Chu Tiannan about being her personal chef while he drank overly sour lemon juice.
• Luo'er checked whether Chu Tiannan's cheek still hurt after she had slapped him, and they bantered about the incident.
• After Luo'er asked what he had wanted to tell her, Chu Tiannan asked whether she knew the Chu Family.
• Luo'er joked that Chu Tiannan was from the Chu Family, then realized from his reaction that he was serious.
• Chu Tiannan said he would explain everything that had happened and asked Luo'er to help him decide what to do.

Chu Tiannan struggled over whether to accept the Chu Family, and Luo'er advised him to go with them so he could learn more and resolve his questions. The next day, he agreed to return with Chu Tiandong, insisting that Luo'er come too.

• Chu Tiannan told Luo'er he was torn between keeping his distance from the Chu Family and accepting their offer.
• Luo'er asked whether he truly wanted to resist or go along, and Chu Tiannan admitted he did not know.
• Luo'er advised Chu Tiannan to accept the Chu Family while leaving the details up to himself.
• Chu Tiannan agreed to follow Luo'er's advice, and they spent the night together in quiet.
• The next day, Chu Tiannan told Chu Tiandong he would return to the Chu Family only if Luo'er came with him.

Chu Tiannan and Luo'er traveled through a Catastrophe Zone aboard the Zongheng, teasing each other while Chu Tiannan recalled his past escape. The fighter jet then crossed a hidden barrier into the new world, leaving the pursuers dead outside.

• Chu Tiannan held Luo'er's hand as the fighter jet flew through the forest, while Chu Tiandong and his brothers cultivated to avoid watching the couple.
• Chu Tiannan recalled how he had once fled as a weak Martial Artist, and Luo'er teased him about not knowing how to drive.
• Chu Tiannan praised Luo'er and wondered about the mysterious power he sensed within her; Luo'er challenged him to spar, but he refused and promised to protect her.
• Chu Tianbei said he wanted a girlfriend, and Chu Tiandong and Chu Tianxi told him he did not.
• The system warned Chu Tiannan that the Zongheng was entering the new world, and the jet passed through a hidden barrier by a waterfall as the pursuing Demon Beasts died at its edge.

Chu Tiannan arrived at the Chu Family’s ancestral home and prepared to meet its leader, who was waiting outside the family’s highest villa. The chapter ended with Chu Tiannan sensing that the imposing old man’s power surpassed that of an ordinary Martial God.

• Chu Tiannan saw that the Chu Family’s estate preserved herds of animals that had vanished elsewhere after Earth’s cataclysm.
• Chu Tiandong showed Chu Tiannan the family’s villas beneath the snowy mountains and told him his own family villa stood empty.
• Chu Tiannan accepted Luo’er’s encouragement and said they should go home.
• Chu Tiannan, Luo’er, and the others flew to the highest villa, where the Chu Family’s leader and three middle-aged men awaited them.
• Chu Tiannan sensed that the old man’s strength exceeded that of an ordinary Martial God.

Chu Tiannan met the powerful elders of the Chu Family and learned that his grandfather, Chu Shen, was a Council Speaker. The chapter left Chu Tiannan stunned by his grandfather’s immense strength and impressed by his own ability to resist Chu Shen’s aura.

• Chu Tiandong brought Chu Tiannan to meet his grandfather, father, and uncles, whose auras revealed them to be Earth Councilors.
• Chu Tiannan respectfully greeted Chu Huahuang, Chu Huatian, and the other family elders.
• Chu Huatian remarked that Chu Tiannan looked much like his father, Chu Huaxuan, and Chu Shen invited his grandson to call him Grandfather.
• Chu Tiannan resisted the force of Chu Shen’s gaze, and Chu Huadi explained that Chu Shen was a Council Speaker.