Recaps

Di Yuan and Qianxue’s son was born in the Dark Forbidden Zone amid signs of immense power, and the family named him Di Chen. The Tenth Ancestor sensed a hidden sword constitution within him, and the Sixth Ancestor called for Di Chen to be brought to the ancestral grounds when he turned one.

• Di Yuan anxiously waited for Qianxue to give birth while his father, Di Ku, tried to calm him.
• Di Yuan welcomed his newborn son as a vast aura and rich immortal Qi swept through the Dark Forbidden Zone and shook the Canglan Immortal Domain.
• Di Chen opened his eyes and revealed the Emperor Bloodline, delighting Di Yuan and Di Ku.
• Qianxue suggested naming their son Di Chen, and the Tenth Ancestor emerged and announced that the Dark Forbidden Zone would return to the Immortal Domain’s stage.
• The Tenth Ancestor sensed a mysterious sword constitution within Di Chen, and the Sixth Ancestor ordered that the child be brought to the ancestral grounds at age one so he could awaken it and his cultivation.

Di Chen was sent into the Dark Forbidden Zone’s ancestral grounds, where five ancestors awakened his Emperor Bloodline and undying sword physique. His power shook the Immortal Domain, and the appearance of a monstrous genius stirred ancient powers and the younger generation as the path to immortality approached.

• Di Yuan and Di Ku brought Di Chen to the ancestral grounds, where a mysterious stele transported him inside.
• Five ancient ancestors emerged from their coffins and infused Di Chen with their powers.
• Di Chen’s body burst apart and reassembled as a blood dragon before his Sword Intent and companion divine artifact shook the Immortal Domain.
• The Sword Sect’s ancestor sensed Di Chen’s undying sword physique and ordered the sect to befriend him at any cost.
• Ancient experts across the Immortal Domain sensed the awakening, while many powers prepared for the coming path to immortality.

The Fifth Ancestor gave Di Chen a Marrow-Cleansing Spirit Fruit, pushing his cultivation to the Spirit Sea Stage and forming an unprecedented hundred-thousand-li Spirit Sea. Di Chen began consolidating his power in seclusion as the chapter outlined the major forces and cultivation realms of the Canglan Immortal Domain.

• The Fifth Ancestor used a Marrow-Cleansing Spirit Fruit to strengthen Di Chen’s body and forge his foundation.
• Di Chen advanced from Foundation Establishment to the Spirit Transformation Realm as the fruit’s power transformed him.
• Di Chen broke through to the Spirit Sea Stage and formed a hundred-thousand-li Spirit Sea.
• The Fifth Ancestor told Di Chen to consolidate his cultivation in seclusion within the ancestral grounds, and Di Chen resumed cultivating.
• The chapter described the major powers, hidden factions, Dao Domains, and cultivation realms of the Canglan Immortal Domain.

After nine years of seclusion, Di Chen emerged as a ten-year-old Saint and was immediately struck by a heavenly tribulation. He shattered its lightning with his sword, but the appearance of the Eye of Heavenly Punishment left him and powerful figures across the Canglan Immortal Domain in awe.

• Di Chen left seclusion after reaching the Saint realm and learning the first two forms of the Indestructible Sword Art.
• A heavenly tribulation formed over the forbidden zone, and Di Chen punched apart its first lightning bolt.
• Di Chen fought a silver lightning dragon with Sword Moves Mountains and Rivers, destroying it but suffering an injury.
• Disciples and elders gathered, recognized Di Chen as the Forbidden Lord's child, and were astonished by his Saint cultivation at age ten.
• Di Chen used Sword Breaks Heaven and Earth to slice apart the purple-gold lightning, provoking the heavens to manifest the Eye of Heavenly Punishment.
• Powerful figures across the Canglan Immortal Domain sensed the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and wondered what terrifying being had been born in the Dark Forbidden Zone.

Di Chen’s Heavenly Punishment was driven away by an ancient presence inside the Dark Forbidden Zone, who protected him from the Eye of Heavenly Punishment. After becoming the forbidden zone’s successor, Di Chen faced ten core disciples at the ancestral ceremony and offered to surrender his position if they defeated him.

• The Eye of Heavenly Punishment threatened Di Chen, but an ancient ancestor awoke in a coffin and forced it to flee.
• Experts across the Immortal Domain witnessed the Eye of Heavenly Punishment retreat and feared the unnamed being in the Dark Forbidden Zone.
• The Tenth Ancestor declared Di Chen the successor to the ruler of the Dark Forbidden Zone and announced an ancestral ceremony, while Di Chen invited others to challenge him.
• Di Yuan congratulated Di Chen on reaching the Saint Realm at age ten and urged him to spend time with his mother before going out into the world.
• At the ceremony, Di Chen challenged the ten core disciples, offering to give up his position as young master if they defeated him.

Di Chen challenged the ten core disciples and overwhelmed them, first defeating Zhang Hao and then surviving the nine disciples’ combined attack. After Di Yuan healed them, the ten joined forces with the Four Saints Formation, but Di Chen shattered it with one sword strike, earning their submission as the sacrificial ceremony ended.

• Di Chen blocked Zhang Hao’s Star Battle Physique punch with one finger, then sent him crashing through a wall with a single punch.
• Di Chen defeated Zhao Yun’s Azure Nether Palm and stood unharmed after the nine core disciples launched their combined attack.
• Di Chen asked Di Yuan to heal the ten core disciples and offered them another chance to withstand one move.
• The ten core disciples formed the Four Saints Formation and summoned the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and White Tiger phantoms.
• Di Chen used Sword Breaks Heaven and Earth to destroy the four phantoms and gravely injure all ten disciples, who knelt in submission.
• Di Yuan praised Di Chen as the disciples and onlookers declared him mighty, and Di Chen vanished as the ceremony ended.

Di Chen prepared to leave the Dark Forbidden Zone for the Immortal Domain, receiving protection and supplies from the ancestors and his father. After he departed, Zhang Hao chose to follow him by entering the dangerous spatial turbulence.

• Tenth Ancestor gave Di Chen a one-use soul jade talisman and Quasi-Emperor-grade Heaven and Earth Robe before sending him back to say goodbye.
• Di Yuan gave Di Chen a storage ring, then secretly burned a black jade talisman and ordered a black-robed man to begin.
• The five ancestors opened a spatial gate, and Di Chen crossed through it to enter the Immortal Domain.
• Zhang Hao asked Di Yuan to let him pursue Di Chen through spatial turbulence so he could train toward the Saint Realm.
• Di Yuan gave Zhang Hao a life-preserving talisman, and Zhang Hao entered the black hole alone.

Di Chen entered Heavenly Moon City and clashed with Li He and Li Linglong after they tried to bully and threaten him. He killed Li He, and the enraged city lord arrived to avenge his son.

• Di Chen entered Heavenly Moon City, paid a guard for flying in, and learned the city's rules.
• Li He charged at Di Chen on horseback, then attacked him with a whip after Di Chen refused to move aside.
• Di Chen knocked Li He down and killed the guards who surrounded him when Li He ordered them to seize him.
• Li Linglong identified herself as the city lord's daughter and tried to slap Di Chen, but he kicked her through walls and into an artificial mountain.
• Di Chen ignored Li Linglong's threats and pierced Li He through the chest with Sword Qi, killing him.
• The furious city lord shouted that he would avenge his son and punish Di Chen.

Di Chen revealed himself as a young Saint when he fought Li Yunxiao, alarming the city’s factions and prompting them to avoid taking sides. As Li Yunxiao tried to bargain for Li Linglong’s life, Third of the Tang Lineage suddenly bound Di Chen and claimed to have resolved the standoff.

• Li Yunxiao arrived and struck Di Chen, but their clash ended with both men retreating, and Li Yunxiao realized Di Chen was a Saint.
• Spies reported that a ten-year-old Saint had appeared, while the four great Lineages chose to watch rather than risk provoking either side.
• The Tang Lineage’s patriarch rebuked Third for wanting to help Li Yunxiao, and the Zhang Family and Huang Lineage shut their gates.
• Zi Yan learned that Di Chen’s origins were unknown and ordered a masked woman to rescue him if necessary.
• Li Yunxiao asked Di Chen to spare Li Linglong, but Di Chen warned that he could send her to join her dead brother.
• Third used Blue Lure Entanglement to restrain Di Chen, then boasted to Li Yunxiao that he had resolved the situation.

Di Chen broke free, killed Li Linglong, and defeated Li Yunxiao in battle. As the third brother of the Tang Lineage attacked Di Chen, Li Yunxiao fled to seek reinforcements.

• Di Chen shattered the blue silk binding him and killed Li Linglong with a palm strike.
• Enraged by his daughter's death, Li Yunxiao attacked Di Chen, but Di Chen's strength forced him back.
• Di Chen drew his black longsword and struck Li Yunxiao with Sword Moves Mountains and Rivers, sending him crashing to the ground and spitting blood.
• Li Yunxiao realized he could not defeat Di Chen and prepared to flee.
• The third brother of the Tang Lineage thrust his spear at Di Chen, while Li Yunxiao abandoned him and ran to get reinforcements.

Di Chen killed the Tang Lineage's third elder after the elder attacked him, then rejected both the second elder's demands and an invitation from the Misty Rain Auction House. Back at the Tang Lineage, the patriarch considered seeking help from a dangerous middle-aged man with whom he had past ties.

• Di Chen defeated and killed the Tang Lineage's third elder after the elder tried to stop him, and the third elder's death shocked the onlookers.
• The Tang Lineage's second elder confronted Di Chen, but the patriarch restrained him after a scout reported what had happened.
• Qin Xian'er arrived to escort Di Chen to the auction house and warned the second elder not to make a disastrous decision; the second elder apologized and asked Di Chen's name, but Di Chen refused to tell him.
• Qin Xian'er invited Di Chen to meet the pavilion master, but Di Chen declined and left; the Tang Lineage patriarch ordered the third elder's body taken home for burial.
• The Tang Lineage patriarch proposed asking a formidable middle-aged man for help, while the second elder warned against provoking him.

Di Chen concealed his identity and went to the Dark Moon Gloomy Forest after rumors spread of a Supreme expert’s tomb. There, he observed the factions gathering to search the ruins, including the powerful Bootlicking Sect and Heavenly Moon City’s four great lineages.

• Di Chen disguised himself with a Ghost Face Mask, ate at a restaurant, and overheard people discussing his battle and the rumor of a Supreme expert’s tomb.
• Di Chen decided to investigate the tomb and entered the Dark Moon Gloomy Forest, where other factions had cleared a path into its depths.
• Young clan disciples mocked Di Chen for traveling alone, but he ignored them and continued toward the gathered explorers.
• Fang Jiang arrived in an ornate carriage with four Saint Realm servants, noticed he could not see through Di Chen’s cultivation, and then dismissed him.
• Di Chen saw the heads and young disciples of Heavenly Moon City’s four great lineages arrive to search for the Supreme expert’s ruins.

Di Chen entered the Supreme expert’s tomb with the gathered powers, but a mysterious call led him away from the group to a stone chamber. There he found a strange skeleton that claimed the tomb was its Emperor’s Spirit Burial Grotto.

• Murong Fengchen arrived with four peak Saint experts, and more than five hundred people gathered to discuss entering the tomb.
• Murong Fengchen proposed that those under thirty enter together and split up inside, then led the group through the barrier.
• Inside the dark tomb, Murong Fengchen chose a passage, but Di Chen heard a mysterious call and went in another direction.
• Di Chen found a white jade coffin and sensed a surge of death Qi before noticing a skeletal figure with a black bead and terrifying Sha Qi.
• The skeleton laughed and called the place its Emperor’s Spirit Burial Grotto, leading Di Chen to suspect the tomb belonged to a Quasi-Emperor.

Di Chen fought a Quasi-Emperor skeleton and learned it had once been saved by his grandfather, Di Ku. After hearing the skeleton’s account of the Dark Forbidden Zone, Di Chen was asked to accept Wang Wu as his follower.

• Di Chen revealed his Saint cultivation, Emperor Bloodline, and mysterious longsword, then clashed with the skeleton using his sword techniques.
• The skeleton recognized Di Chen’s strength, and Di Chen introduced himself as the young master of the Dark Forbidden Zone.
• The skeleton asked what Di Chen’s relationship was to Di Ku, and Di Chen said Di Ku was his grandfather.
• The skeleton explained that Di Ku had saved him during the Foreign Domain invasion and described how a Great Emperor was destroyed after threatening the Dark Forbidden Zone.
• Wang Wu knelt and swore a blood oath of loyalty to Di Chen, asking to serve at his side.

Di Chen learned about the lethal Dark Nether Water beneath the Supreme Tomb and began using its qi to temper his body. After Di Chen gave Elder Wang ten drops of Essence Blood, Elder Wang discovered it came from an Imperial Bloodline and began regenerating.

• Elder Wang explained that he had emptied the Supreme Tomb and revealed that a stream of Dark Nether Water lay beneath it.
• After the other cultivators left, Elder Wang opened the cavern beneath the tomb and led Di Chen to the lake of Dark Nether Water.
• Elder Wang warned Di Chen to absorb the water's qi gradually, and Di Chen endured intense pain as he swallowed a drop and felt his physical strength increase.
• Di Chen gave Elder Wang ten drops of Essence Blood, which Elder Wang recognized as Imperial Bloodline blood before it merged into his body.
• Elder Wang's skeleton shone with golden radiance as Di Chen moved away and continued tempering his body.

After three years of secluded cultivation, Di Chen reached the Early Great Saint Realm and transformed his body, while Elder Wang used Imperial Blood Essence to regain a living body and break through to peak Quasi-Emperor. They prepared to leave the underground tomb so Di Chen could hunt down the person he intended to eliminate.

• Di Chen completed his transformation in the Water of the Dark Nether and advanced to the Early Great Saint Realm.
• Elder Wang finished refining the blood essence, regained his body, and revealed that he had reached peak Quasi-Emperor.
• Di Chen invited Elder Wang to test his physical strength, and Elder Wang struck him with a peak Quasi-Emperor punch.
• Di Chen was driven back and spat blood, but recovered almost immediately, showing that his body could withstand the blow.
• Di Chen and Elder Wang agreed to leave the tomb and pursue the person Di Chen wanted to kill.

After three years in seclusion, Di Chen returned to Heavenly Moon City and learned that Li Yunxiao planned to seek revenge during the Domain Lord's Manor's prodigy tournament. He headed to Domain City, where Domain Lord Li Xinghe prepared the tournament and warned his disciple Li Feng about Di Chen.

• Di Chen and Elder Wang visited a teahouse, where Di Chen overheard rumors that Li Yunxiao had returned with experts and would attend the upcoming prodigy tournament.
• Di Chen resolved to settle accounts with Li Yunxiao and left with Elder Wang to find the Domain Lord's Manor.
• Li Xinghe praised Li Feng for reaching the early Saint stage and ordered him to guide Murong Fengchen at the tournament and watch out for Di Chen.
• Li Feng dismissed the reports about Di Chen's strength, while Li Xinghe cautioned him before sending him away.
• Di Chen arrived in Domain City, heard that Li Feng had emerged from seclusion and that many powerful contestants would enter the tournament, and looked forward to meeting opponents.

Di Chen encountered Yang Linna and Fang Jiang in Heavenly Moon City, where Fang Jiang tried to impress her by attacking him. After Di Chen slapped Fang Jiang and city guards stopped the fight, he went with Elder Wang to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.

• Fang Jiang pursued Yang Linna, who rejected his familiarity and asked him to beat up the masked Di Chen in exchange for dining together.
• Fang Jiang recognized Di Chen and ordered him to kneel and apologize, but Di Chen told him to scram and slapped him.
• Fang Jiang threatened Di Chen, but armored guards arrived and warned that fighting was forbidden in the domain capital.
• Yang Linna agreed to eat with Fang Jiang, and the two left while Di Chen and Elder Wang headed for the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.
• Di Chen and Elder Wang arrived at the three-story restaurant, which belonged to the Misty Rain Pavilion.

Di Chen dined at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, refused an invitation from Zi Yan, and heard Elder Wang recount a brutal warrior from the Domain Lord's Manor. Meanwhile, Yang Linna told Murong Fengchen and the other heaven's chosen about a masked youth who had offended her, and they agreed to confront him during the competition, unaware that the youth was Di Chen.

• Wang Yuan invited Di Chen to meet Zi Yan, but Di Chen refused and confirmed that the people who had provoked him came from the Domain Lord's Manor.
• Elder Wang described a man from the Domain Lord's Manor who had slaughtered foreign-domain invaders three thousand years earlier.
• Murong Fengchen interrupted Yang Linna's lunch with Fang Jiang and took her to meet heaven's chosen on the third floor.
• Yang Linna told Murong Fengchen, Ye Tianchuan, Chen Yunfei, and Situ Haoxuan that a masked youth had looked down on her.
• Murong Fengchen and the others agreed to deal with the masked youth when they met him during the competition, while Di Chen continued dining nearby.

The Tournament of Prodigies began drawing the great powers of the Heavenly Moon Dao Domain, including the Heavenly Demon Cult, the Holy Mother Sect, and the Misty Rain Pavilion. As Zi Yan searched for the mysterious youth she wanted to capture, an ancient sword arrived amid a storm, signaling the entrance of another powerful sect.

• Fang Jiang arrived and confronted Murong Fengchen over Yang Linna, while Murong Fengchen claimed she was resting in his room.
• Li Yunxiao opened the tournament and welcomed the arriving delegations, including the Heavenly Demon Cult led by its Holy Son, Luosha.
• Granny Yang arrived with the Holy Mother Sect, and Yang Linna glared at Zi Yan when the Misty Rain Pavilion's Holy Maiden joined the gathering.
• Zi Yan took her place on the platform and privately hoped the mysterious youth would attend so she could capture him.
• An ancient sword streaked through the sky amid lightning and dark clouds, and Li Yunxiao excitedly recognized the arriving sect.

Zhang Yu of the Sword Sect and Zi Yan of the Misty Rain Pavilion arrived at the Heavenly Moon Domain’s competition, where Li Yunxiao began an elimination tournament. As the matches unfolded, Di Chen and Elder Wang prepared to attack the Domain Lord’s Manor with only the two of them.

• Zhang Yu arrived with three Sword Sect disciples, recognized Zi Yan, and took a seat on the guest platform beside her group.
• Li Yunxiao announced the elimination rules, and the first matches began as contestants drew opponents.
• Luosha conceded to Li Feng, the Domain Lord’s Saint-level personal disciple, drawing criticism from Zhang Yu.
• Lei Hu overwhelmed Fang Jiang with lightning-charged attacks and knocked him from the fight.
• Di Chen agreed to head for the Domain Lord’s Manor with Elder Wang, who eagerly accepted despite learning they had no reinforcements.

Di Chen and Elder Wang arrived at the competition, where Di Chen’s sword strikes overwhelmed Gu Li and revealed the power that Zhang Yu recognized from the awakening of the Supreme Sword Physique thirteen years earlier. As Sword Sect and Zi Yan’s Lineage moved to contact their factions, Yang Linna’s demand that Murong Fengchen attack Di Chen ended with Murong slapping her.

• A sword strike knocked Gu Li into a pavilion, and a second attack called Sword Moves Mountains and Rivers slammed him into the ground and badly wounded him.
• Zhang Yu recognized the sword presence as belonging to the person who awakened the Supreme Sword Physique thirteen years ago, contacted the Sword Sect, and Zi Yan secretly notified her Lineage.
• Gu Li demanded that his attacker show himself, but another sword strike blasted open his chest and severed an arm.
• Di Chen and Elder Wang appeared above the arena as Yang Linna asked Murong Fengchen to make Di Chen kneel.
• Murong Fengchen slapped Yang Linna and berated her for provoking a youth who had nearly killed Gu Li, while Yang Linna cried over his betrayal.

Di Chen unmasked himself before Li Yunxiao at the Domain Lord’s Manor and challenged him over their old blood feud. Three protectors arrived to defend the manor, and Di Chen prepared to face them.

• Murong Fengchen slapped Yang Linna twice and threatened her into silence while Chen Yunfei and the others tried to calm him.
• Di Chen removed his mask and reminded Li Yunxiao that he had killed his children and once driven him from Heavenly Moon City.
• The crowd recognized Di Chen as the fighter who had killed Li Yunxiao’s children and wounded Gu Li, while Zi Yan and the others considered winning him over.
• Li Yunxiao called on three protectors, who emerged from Heavenly Moon Hall and threatened to cripple Di Chen.
• Di Chen dismissed the protectors as old dogs and invited them to attack.

Di Chen fought the Domain Lord’s Manor’s three Peak Supreme guardians and withstood their Supreme Weapon, the Demon-Subduing Bell, without injury. The guardians were left panting while Li Yunxiao watched in growing fear.

• The three guardians unleashed their Peak Supreme cultivation, but Di Chen declared that he would kill them and struck them with Sword Moves Mountains and Rivers, sending all three bloodied and staggering backward.
• The guardians attacked again, and Di Chen fought them alone as their clashes shook the arena and forced spectators to flee or suffer injuries.
• Di Chen drove the three guardians back until they staked their lives on a final attack, then vanished with instantaneous movement to face them from afar.
• The three guardians summoned the Supreme Weapon Demon-Subduing Bell, whose sound wave tore through the arena and killed or injured many spectators.
• Di Chen remained unharmed after the bell attack, while the three guardians panted and Li Yunxiao grew terrified at Di Chen’s strength.

Di Chen overwhelmed the three protectors with a devastating sword strike, while Elder Wang revealed himself as a peak Quasi-Emperor protecting the young master. The Domain Lord’s Manor’s head protector arrived and saved the three from Di Chen’s attack.

• Zhang Yu and Zi Yan noticed Elder Wang’s terrifying presence, and Granny Long’s divine sense was destroyed when she probed him.
• Elder Wang injured Granny Long with a cold snort and warned Zi Yan that he would kill whoever was behind her if he were not avoiding trouble for the young master.
• Di Chen launched a powerful sword strike at the three protectors, declaring that they had not forced him to use the second form of his sword technique.
• The three protectors found themselves unable to move as Di Chen’s sword light closed in on them.
• The Domain Lord’s Manor’s head protector appeared and shattered Di Chen’s sword strike with a golden fist, prompting the three protectors to call for his help.