Recaps

Tianxuzi defeated Jin Taisuo and protected Long Zaitian’s group as disturbances at Mount Tai’s summit shook the mountain. A spatial portal then brought Xiao Tian, Overlord, and others to them, and Tianxuzi left with Xiao Tian while Overlord stayed behind and formed an alliance with Amazon Country’s Evolver.

• Tianxuzi killed Jin Taisuo with a single strike, then killed the remaining Evolvers from Gaoluo Country when they surrendered.
• Tianxuzi accepted Amazon Country’s goodwill gift and shielded his group when Mount Tai shook and the summit’s disturbances killed or injured cultivators below.
• Tianxuzi explained that he was the master of the Eight Sceneries Palace and had drawn the lot to guard the group instead of joining the expedition to the summit.
• A spatial portal opened, and Xiao Tian, Overlord, Biyou Fairy, and their companions emerged after taking the wrong gate while returning from fighting the Flood Dragon King.
• Overlord stayed behind to recover from his injuries, while Tianxuzi joined Xiao Tian and the others as Xiao Tian altered the portal and led them back.
• Amazon Country’s Evolver offered gifts to Overlord, who accepted them and agreed to an alliance.

Xiao Tian led the group through a deadly portal trap to the Water Curtain Cave, where they discovered the World-Chaos Demon Ape's legacy. Four of them qualified for its inheritance trial, and Xiao Tian stunned the monkey spirit by awakening the sealed Heaven-Overturning Demon Staff with a touch.

• Xiao Tian chose the middle gate, destroyed the group’s return portal, and revealed that the corrosive flood concealed an entrance to a blessed grotto-heaven.
• The group found the Water Curtain Cave and heard Tianxuzi recount the legend of the World-Chaos Demon Ape, then discovered the remains of cultivators and dangerous weapons inside.
• Big Black Bull collected spirit stones while Xiao Tian and the others found a spirit pool, where Kabuta accidentally activated a crystal pillar and summoned the monkey’s primordial spirit.
• The monkey’s legacy-assessing light selected Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, Xuanlong, and Kabuta to attempt the inheritance trial.
• Xuanlong and Big Black Bull lifted the Heaven-Overturning Demon Staff, while Kabuta failed; Xiao Tian awakened the staff’s black light with a touch before letting it fall back into place.

Xiao Tian passed the statue trial despite choosing the most obvious statue, then refused the World-Chaos Demon Ape’s legacy and revealed his overwhelming power. He helped the Demon Ape begin a path to revival and returned with its techniques, while Yuan Daqiang gave him free access to the cave abode.

• Yuan Daqiang warned Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, and Xuanlong that the next trials could be deadly, but all three chose to continue.
• Big Black Bull and Xuanlong each selected a statue, and Xiao Tian hurled the staff at the largest statue; Yuan Daqiang declared Xiao Tian the only one to advance.
• Xiao Tian tried to withdraw, but Yuan Daqiang forced him onward, and the World-Chaos Demon Ape offered him its legacy.
• Xiao Tian refused the legacy, immobilized the Demon Ape and the Sky-Spilling Staff with his power, and agreed to help find a new inheritor while keeping his identity secret.
• Xiao Tian gave the World-Chaos Demon Ape a Thought-Concentrating Pearl and explained how it could use Chaos Qi to revive through nirvana.
• Xiao Tian returned to Yuan Daqiang with the Demon Ape’s techniques, and Yuan Daqiang rewarded him with a jade token granting access to the cave abode and its spoils.

Xiao Tian and his companions looted the World-Chaos Demon Ape’s cave abode, cultivated there, and added the Demon Spirit to their group after defeating a demonized man. They headed toward the Heavenly Divine Sword so Xiao Tian could use it and the stars in his Visualization Realm breakthrough, while Black Peng King plotted against them from Mount Tai’s summit.

• Xiao Tian refused the World-Chaos Demon Ape’s legacy but accepted permission to take treasures, and he, Big Black Bull, and Xuanlong stripped the cave abode before cultivating there for eleven years.
• Immortal in Wine challenged Big Black Bull for his freedom and lost, while Xiao Tian advised Big Black Bull to be cautious about breaking through to the Visualization Realm.
• After the group left the cave abode, Xuanlong kicked the stranded Kabuta, and the group captured the Demon Spirit and made it work as an ingredient supplier for Hundred Flowers Brew.
• Big Black Bull killed a demonized peak Carefree Realm man who had injured the Demon Spirit, and Xiao Tian removed the demonic Qi contaminating it.
• Xiao Tian explained that he wanted to visualize both the Heavenly Divine Sword and the stars, while Black Peng King learned that Xiao Tian’s group had destroyed his demonic puppet and planned to confront them.
• As the group advanced toward the Heavenly Divine Sword, the Demon Spirit’s cultivation reached peak Carefree Realm, and Xiao Tian assured Big Black Bull that they could retreat into the World-Chaos Demon Ape’s cave abode if necessary.

Xiao Tian reached the Visualization Realm by enduring the Heavenly Divine Sword’s sword gales, then led his companions to a gathering of Carefree Realm cultivators. After Tianxuzi fought Wood Dragon Immortal over an old grudge, Xiao Tian displayed rare treasures and provoked the gathered factions, ending with Kongming Saber Immortal attacking him and losing his saber.

• Big Black Bull, Xuanlong, and Xiao Tian used the World-Chaos Demon Ape’s cave abode to rest as they advanced through the Heavenly Divine Sword’s Domain, while Black Peng King watched and withdrew to plan a careful attack.
• Xiao Tian let the sword gales strike him, mastered their sword intent, and reached the Visualization Realm as his companions witnessed a starry phenomenon.
• Xiao Tian led his group to a gathering of Carefree Realm cultivators, where Wood Dragon Immortal accused Tianxuzi of buying the Azure Sky Hollow-Heart Vine that she had wanted to save her descendant.
• Tianxuzi fought Wood Dragon Immortal, breaking her Wood God Imprisons the Heavens technique, while Xiao Tian warned her against attacking his companion.
• Xiao Tian showed Wood Dragon Immortal more than two hundred natural treasures, including an Immortal Heart Lotus that could save her daughter, then baited rival cultivators into threatening his group.
• Kongming Saber Immortal attacked Xiao Tian with his Void Blade, but Xiao Tian remained unharmed and took the saber, while Wood Dragon Immortal watched her Immortal Heart Lotus disintegrate.

Xiao Tian and his companions subdued Kongming Saber Immortal and stopped another cultivator from killing him to curry favor. Xiao Tian traded an Immortal Heart Lotus to Wood Dragon Immortal for Yanyan to travel with his group for a month, leaving Wood Dragon Immortal to await her return at Mount Tai.

• Xiao Tian ambushed Kongming Saber Immortal with a golden staff, while Big Black Bull and Xuanlong joined him in intimidating the surrounding Carefree Realm cultivators.
• Xiao Tian took Kongming Saber Immortal's ring, iron band, and inner armor, then Big Black Bull killed a cultivator who tried to kill Kongming Saber Immortal and win favor.
• Xiao Tian offered Wood Dragon Immortal an Immortal Heart Lotus in exchange for Yanyan accompanying his group for a month, and Yanyan agreed after asking whether she would have to do chores.
• Wood Dragon Immortal inspected the genuine Immortal Heart Lotus, accepted the deal, and entrusted Yanyan to Xiao Tian and Biyou Palace Master.
• Xiao Tian told Yanyan to watch Kabuta, while Wood Dragon Immortal agreed to wait at Mount Tai for her return in a month.

Xiao Tian's group competed with Carefree Realm experts for treasures erupting from the spiritual Qi vortex, collecting rare li flame snow essence and claiming comic new sobriquets. When a beautiful pearl appeared in the fifth wave, Big Black Bull charged to seize it for the group.

• The Wood Dragon Immortal left Mount Tai with the Immortal Heart Lotus, while Xiao Tian entrusted Yanyan to the Biyou Fairy and waited with the others for the vortex to erupt.
• The first two waves produced spirit stones, and Big Black Bull and Xuanlong collected most of the purer stones in the second wave.
• Big Black Bull seized a giant demon beast egg in the third wave, then the fourth wave's dangerous li flame snow essence killed four Carefree Realm experts who rushed toward it.
• Perfected Xuanfeng explained how lightning-struck wood could collect the li flame snow essence, and Xiao Tian's group helped the Biyou Fairy and Tianxuzi gather forty-three motes before Xiao Tian took half from each of them.
• Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, and Xuanlong gave themselves the sobriquets Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Great Sage Equaling Heaven and Earth, and Great Sage Tongtian, forming the Three Great Sages.
• A beautiful pearl appeared in the fifth wave, and Big Black Bull charged forward, declaring that it was his.

Xiao Tian’s group manipulated the Evolvers into fighting among themselves while the spiritual Qi vortex produced increasingly dangerous treasures and traps. After a humanoid blast killed or crippled many Evolvers, Xiao Tian confronted a second puppet, and Big Black Bull revealed strength that made the remaining opponents fear he had reached Half-Step Visualization Realm.

• Big Black Bull claimed the first pearl, while Dao Lord Longxin and the other Evolvers secretly planned to unite against Xiao Tian’s group.
• Xiao Tian’s group feigned weakness as Dao Lord Longxin took the blood lotus and Daoist Hun obtained a spiritual pill, deepening the Evolvers’ internal disputes.
• Black Peng King disguised himself as a late Carefree Realm Evolver and infiltrated the group to observe Xiao Tian.
• Xiao Tian’s group seized seven of thirteen Phoenix Blood Leaves and badly injured four Evolvers, prompting Dao Lord Longxin to distribute Rejuvenation Life Pills while the others recovered.
• The ninth wave’s humanoid figure exploded, killing nearby late Carefree Realm experts and leaving two peak experts near death; Black Peng King survived the blast and received clothes from Daoist Hun.
• When the tenth wave produced another humanoid puppet, Xiao Tian attacked it, and Big Black Bull smashed apart its energy blast, startling Daoist Hun and Dao Lord Longxin with his apparent Half-Step Visualization Realm strength.

Xiao Tian took control of the Carefree Realm puppet while Big Black Bull kept it occupied, as Black Peng King and the other experts tried to destroy it. Xuanlong shielded them from the attack, and after the puppet joined their side, Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, and Xuanlong confronted Dao Lord Longxin and the others.

• Xiao Tian told Big Black Bull to restrain the Carefree Realm puppet while he found its control system, and Black Peng King warned the others that Xiao Tian planned to seize it.
• Black Peng King, Dao Lord Longxin, Daoist Hun, Kongming Saber Immortal, and the other experts attacked as Big Black Bull held the puppet.
• Xuanlong used Dragon Qi Origin Realm to block the attack, giving Xiao Tian time to transfer his primordial spirit imprint into the puppet and take control of it.
• Xuanlong's barrier collapsed, and Xiao Tian and Big Black Bull fended off the remaining attacks without being injured.
• Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, and Xuanlong landed and advanced on Dao Lord Longxin and the other experts, with Xuanlong preparing to retaliate.

Xiao Tian forced the Evolvers who had opposed him to surrender their treasures, then revealed his Visualization Realm strength to protect Big Black Bull from Black Peng King. As the spiritual Qi vortex dwindled, Xiao Tian and Big Black Bull attacked it with energy, and it began shrinking rapidly.

• Daoist Hun and Dao Lord Longxin handed over their assets as compensation, and the other Carefree Realm Evolvers followed.
• Xiao Tian demanded payment from the remaining Evolvers, while Black Peng King hid in a deep pit and refused to pay.
• Black Peng King revealed his nonhuman form and attacked Big Black Bull, but Xiao Tian's sword strike exposed his Visualization Realm strength and stopped the ambush.
• Black Peng King fled and resolved to accelerate his demonization, while the other Evolvers yielded to Xiao Tian and stopped contesting the vortex's treasures.
• After the spiritual Qi vortex produced only a few ordinary spirit stones, Big Black Bull and Xiao Tian blasted it with energy until it began shrinking.

Xiao Tian and his companions waited as the spiritual Qi vortex formed a heavenly stairway and gate of light, while Evolvers entered first. Big Black Bull recovered in the cave abode, reached the Visualization Realm, and rejoined Xiao Tian before the group climbed the stairway and gathered at the top.

• Big Black Bull exhausted himself feeding the spiritual Qi vortex and retreated to the cave abode to recover, while Dao Lord Longxin and Daoist Hun watched for an opportunity.
• The vortex contracted into a ball of light, then formed a heavenly stairway leading to a glowing gate that the Evolvers suspected concealed a treasury.
• Dao Lord Longxin, Daoist Hun, and other Carefree Realm Evolvers climbed the stairway and entered the gate of light ahead of Xiao Tian's group.
• The World-Chaos Demon Ape let Big Black Bull eat spirit fruit in the cave abode, where a vivid dream preceded his unexpected breakthrough into the Visualization Realm.
• Big Black Bull found the gate of light and rejoined Xiao Tian, then raced him up the stairway as the rest of their companions arrived at the top.
• Xiao Tian waited until his companions had gathered, and the group prepared to enter the gate together.

Xiao Tian and his companions entered a ruined ancient battlefield, while Wood Dragon Immortal fought off Carefree Realm Evolvers trying to seize her Immortal Heart Lotus. After Xiao Tian’s phantom saved her, his group crossed a dangerous bridge and freed Dao Lord Longxin from a dreamlike trap.

• Xiao Tian and his companions arrived at a ruined ancient battlefield and found the bodies of Carefree Realm powerhouses, then proceeded cautiously toward a mist-shrouded bridge.
• Wood Dragon Immortal trapped her attackers with Wood God Imprisons the Heavens, but White Bird Wanderer and Leitingzi fought free and left her gravely wounded.
• As Wood Dragon Immortal tried to destroy the Immortal Heart Lotus, Xiao Tian’s phantom appeared, killed White Bird Wanderer, Leitingzi, and the other attackers, and restored her to her peak condition.
• Xiao Tian and his companions stepped onto the bridge and found Dao Lord Longxin caught in a dream of his deceased Dao companion; Big Black Bull’s punches helped him regain awareness.
• After Xiao Tian urged Dao Lord Longxin to return to the present and asked him for resources, Dao Lord Longxin clutched his back, coughed up blood, and pretended to faint.

Xiao Tian and his companions entered the Nether Realm, exposed a Blue-Faced Nether Tribe member’s deception, and learned about the realm’s dangers and the Wuchang Staff. They forced him to lead them to the ruins where he found it, arriving just outside the site.

• Xiao Tian and his companions crossed the bridge and reached a boundary stele marking the Nether Realm, where a supposed Black Wuchang warned them to turn back or become creatures of the realm.
• Xiao Tian recognized that the being’s power came from the Wuchang Staff, attacked him, and made him surrender the staff; Big Black Bull then beat the revealed Blue-Faced Nether Tribe member.
• The blue-faced person explained that the Nether Realm was a shattered region and described Youdu Mountain, the Sea of Bitterness, and Yin Mountain as dangerous places.
• Xiao Tian and Dao Lord Longxin learned that people had recently entered the realm through multiple Yin-Yang Bridge entrances, and Xiao Tian ordered the blue-faced person to lead them to the staff’s ruins.
• After traveling for two or three days, Xiao Tian’s group reached the Black Qi-shrouded ruins, and Xiao Tian insisted that the frightened guide lead them inside.

Xiao Tian’s group explored the Nether Realm ruins, killed a Blue-Faced Nether Tribe member, and began robbing local factions under the false name of the Hall of the Gods. They reached Yin Mountain, where its strange sounds left most of the group suffering severe physical discomfort, but Xiao Tian insisted they endure it and continue training.

• A Night Fang tribesman explained that the Blue-Faced Nether Tribe member had lied about unsealing the Wuchang Staff, so Xiao Tian killed him and the group acquired a dead spirit mark.
• Xiao Tian’s group found a plaque identifying the ruins as the Hall of Judges, then decided to wait for pursuing killers and take treasures from others.
• Big Black Bull attacked a battle between the Hawkman Tribe and the Two-Headed Demons, and Xiao Tian demanded their valuables; after defeating both sides, the group introduced themselves as gods from the Hall of the Gods.
• Over the next ten days, Xiao Tian’s group robbed more factions, spreading the name of the Hall of the Gods through the Nether Realm.
• Near Yin Mountain, Kabuta, Immortal in Wine, Biyou, Tianxuzi, and the others developed worsening symptoms from its strange sounds, but Xiao Tian refused to retreat and made them rest until they could endure more.

As Xiao Tian's party approached Yin Mountain, the Hall of Judges plaque helped Xuanlong and Biyou reach the Visualization Realm, and Tianxuzi and Kabuta also broke through. The group continued toward Yin Mountain despite a warning about its gathering dead spirits, while Kabuta credited his breakthrough to vows made in desperation over his diarrhea.

• Xiao Tian used the Hall of Judges plaque to reveal ancient battle scenes, helping Xuanlong break through to the Visualization Realm and Biyou awaken Tongtian's inheritance and advance as well.
• Half a day later, Tianxuzi broke through while Kabuta continued suffering from diarrhea.
• Xiao Tian and Big Black Bull encountered Heihai, who warned them that Yin Mountain's dead spirits' resentment would soon erupt and trap anyone who remained.
• Kabuta unexpectedly reached the Visualization Realm after praying to Brahma God Palace and vowing to perform good deeds if his diarrhea ended.

Xiao Tian and his companions entered Mount Y, where Mohai warned them that the Nether Queen’s growing strangeness could kill them. The Nether Queen revived and defeated Mohai, but when she mistook Xiao Tian for the Nether King, he appeared with a Judge’s Pen stuck in his head.

• Xiao Tian and his companions entered Mount Y and saw Mohai defeat a skeleton warrior after it appeared before him.
• Mohai warned Xiao Tian that Mount Y’s strangeness came from the Nether Queen’s lingering resentment, but Xiao Tian continued deeper to look for ingredients and treasures.
• Black mist and terrifying screams swept over Mount Y as the Nether Queen’s phantom began to take shape in the depths.
• Mohai confronted the revived Nether Queen with the Judge’s Pen, but she broke his attack, absorbed its power, and overpowered the black dragon phantom.
• Mohai sacrificed his power, flesh, blood, and Soul Power to empower the Judge’s Pen, but the Nether Queen survived and discarded it.
• Xiao Tian appeared and chided the Nether Queen for littering; she mistook him for the Nether King and attacked him.

Xiao Tian defeated the Nether Queen You Lian, learned that the Nether Realm was shattered by outsiders, and forced her to help his companions cultivate. With You Lian guiding them, Xiao Tian and his group found numerous treasure hoards in Yin Mountain and left laden with riches.

• The Nether Queen attacked Xiao Tian, but he froze time, rewound her condition, and denied that he was the Nether King.
• Xiao Tian threatened You Lian, then demanded to know why the Nether Realm had fallen into ruin.
• You Lian explained that outsiders from the universe’s first ten ancient worlds had shattered her world and that she had drifted with a fragment through a spacetime fault.
• Xiao Tian offered to spare You Lian if she helped his companions cultivate and subtly led them to treasure sites.
• Xiao Tian returned to Big Black Bull, Xuanlong, and the others, and they continued through Yin Mountain.
• Guided by You Lian, the group found one treasure hoard after another, collected the riches, and left satisfied.

Xiao Tian used his group’s apparent immunity to the strange pressure to intimidate the Night Fang Tribe into surrendering their treasures. After a supernatural wind revealed the group’s protection, Tianming led his people away, and the others decided to exploit their advantage nearby.

• Tianming’s Night Fang Tribe confronted Xiao Tian’s group and demanded their treasures and women, but Xiao Tian turned the threats back on them.
• Tianming misread the group’s upright posture as proof that they were vastly powerful and offered a third of the tribe’s haul to appease them.
• Xiao Tian demanded all the tribe’s treasures and threatened to slaughter them if they refused.
• A strange howl and raging wind struck, but Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, Xuanlong, and the others remained unaffected while Tianming’s group needed protection from an ancestral green lamp.
• Tianming surrendered the tribe’s treasures, and Xiao Tian let the Night Fang Tribe leave without handing over its women.
• Kabuta wondered why their group was unaffected, and Tianxuzi urged them to explore nearby and use their advantage.

Xiao Tian and his companions left Yin Mountain after a week of gathering treasures, but the Blue-Faced Nether Tribe intercepted them over the death of Ye Fei’s son. Xiao Tian used Yin Mountain’s suppressive power to frighten the tribe into surrendering its treasures, then Nether Queen You Lian attacked the beings left in her territory after the group departed.

• Big Black Bull complained about missing barbecue, so Xiao Tian led the group out of Yin Mountain.
• At Yin Mountain’s northern boundary, Ye Fei and ten elders confronted Xiao Tian’s group over the death of Ye Fei’s son.
• Xiao Tian fled with his companions into Yin Mountain’s central region, where the strange power weakened their pursuers.
• Ye Fei stopped the elders and, believing Xiao Tian’s group were Dao Entry Realm cultivators, agreed to hand over the tribe’s treasures.
• Xiao Tian’s group divided the compensation and left by another route, while Nether Queen You Lian attacked the beings remaining in her territory.

Xiao Tian and his companions entered Sangfire City, where they learned that its residents survived by following strange supernatural rules. After a misleading warning and a night spent in an abandoned mansion, they saw a blood-red sky and a shadow dragging a resident away to devour them.

• Xiao Tian led his companions into eerie Sangfire City despite Yanyan's warning, and the residents fled at the sight of them.
• Big Black Bull seized a horned native, who explained that Sangfire City had been cursed by an eerie fire and described rules involving newcomers, a woman's singing, a full blood moon, and a seven-day stay.
• After the singing forced them into an abandoned house, the group met its occupants; a black-robed old man warned them to hide from the fading stars and ignore voices and knocking at the door.
• Xiao Tian settled the group in an abandoned mansion, produced beds and barbecue ingredients, and the companions waited out the fading stars.
• When the stars disappeared, Xiao Tian and his companions saw the sky turn blood-red and watched a shadow drag a resident from a house and devour them.

After strange beings attacked Sangfire City, Xiao Tian gathered information about the city's deadly phenomena and prepared his group for the coming Heavenly Maiden Roaming. He then left the Nether Realm to meet Chu Feng, who gave him a Primordial Hongmeng Inscription.

• Xiao Tian warned his companions not to meet the strange shadow's gaze, then kept them sheltered until Xuanlong confirmed the streets were safe.
• Xiao Tian, Big Black Bull, and Xuanlong captured ten locals and questioned them about Sangfire City's celestial phenomena and dangerous beings.
• The locals explained that Remnant Stars Filling the Sky preceded attacks, while Heavenly Maiden Roaming brought back the dead and powerful beings for eight hours; they also warned that Golden Body Realm beings lived in the city.
• Xiao Tian decided to keep the group sheltered and send those below the Visualization Realm into the World-Chaos Demon Ape's cave abode when Heavenly Maiden Roaming began, but refused to let Kabuta join them.
• After sensing an anomaly outside the Nether Realm, Xiao Tian's primordial spirit traveled to Luo Cheng, where Chu Feng gave him the Primordial Hongmeng Inscription.

Chu Feng gave Xiao Tian a Primordial Hongmeng Inscription that strengthened his true body and helped him locate three portions of Primordial Hongmeng power. When a roaming heavenly maiden phenomenon transformed the streets and unleashed hostile beings, Xiao Tian protected his companions and confronted a terrifying presence by displaying his Hall of Judges plaque.

• Chu Feng pressed the Primordial Hongmeng Inscription onto Xiao Tian's clone, and Xiao Tian's true body absorbed its power, advancing the Undying Deva Path and sensing three portions of Primordial Hongmeng power.
• After Xuanlong announced the soaring heavenly maiden phenomenon, Xiao Tian led his companions out of the building and fought the hostile beings that appeared in the streets.
• Xiao Tian and his companions killed several Visualization Realm beings, then watched a Dao Entry Realm bull demon battle a sword immortal.
• A mysterious shadow seized Kabuta and then Tianxuzi, but Biyou, Tianxuzi, and Xuanlong worked together to drive it away.
• An old woman in red asked Xiao Tian to find her grandson as a ghostly patterned piece of wood released terrifying pressure.
• Xiao Tian showed the old woman his Hall of Judges plaque, making her retreat, and the presence in the wood declared that Xiao Tian and his companions were under its protection.

Xiao Tian traded the Hall of Judges plaque for protection from a Golden Body Realm being, then kept his companions inside its protective circle as eerie beings came looking for the block. Meanwhile, the block discovered an incomplete Netherworld Breathing Technique in the plaque, but an unknown speaker interrupted its plans.

• Xiao Tian gave the Hall of Judges plaque to the ghost-patterned wooden block, which promised to protect him and his companions until they left the city.
• The block destroyed a blood-colored broken sword, drew a protective circle around Xiao Tian and the others, and vanished with the plaque.
• A white-clad woman and then an eerie black-and-white face questioned the group about the block, while Xiao Tian stopped his companions from being drawn outside the circle.
• An old woman asked Xiao Tian to help find her grandson, but he refused as more eerie beings appeared nearby.
• Xiao Tian followed his connection to the plaque and found that the block had returned to its lair, where it discovered an incomplete Netherworld Breathing Technique on the plaque.
• An unknown voice spoke to the block as it prepared to use the plaque, leaving it startled.

A presence hidden in the Hall of Judges plaque awakened and forced the ghost-patterned wooden block to return to Xiao Tian, while granting it the Ghost Emperor Soul-Annihilating Claw. After the block defeated its attackers, it led Xiao Tian and his companions to shelter beneath the ruins and gave Xiao Tian a ghost talisman for protection.

• The plaque’s presence threatened the ghost-patterned wooden block, identified Xiao Tian as a bearer of unique fate and great fortune, and ordered the block to return to him within a day.
• The presence passed the ghost-patterned wooden block memories of the Ghost Emperor Soul-Annihilating Claw, which strengthened its cultivation and Soul-Binding Claw as it studied the ability.
• Xiao Tian used the old woman’s torment to break through to the peak Visualization Realm, angering her as she tried to make his group leave the circle.
• The old woman warned that Xiao Tian’s backer was surrounded by Golden Body Realm beings, but the ghost-patterned wooden block appeared after the battle and the old woman was gone.
• The ghost-patterned wooden block led Xiao Tian and the others to a cellar, returned the Hall of Judges plaque to him, and gave him a ghost talisman before they began cultivating.

The ghost-patterned wooden block mastered two Primordial Nether Runes while fighting Sangfire City’s Golden Body Realm experts, broke the city’s curse, and killed one pursuer. Xiao Tian and his companions escaped the Nether Realm and returned to Mount Tai, where they began overpowering local Carefree Realm experts.

• The ghost-patterned wooden block fought off the Golden Body Realm experts who tried to seize the Hall of Judges’ plaque and revealed its mastery of a Primordial Nether Rune.
• The ghost-patterned wooden block’s battle shattered Sangfire City’s curse, and it killed the strange head before the remaining experts fled.
• Xiao Tian and his companions learned the curse had lifted, and the ghost-patterned wooden block offered Xiao Tian a cultivation gift before departing.
• Three days after leaving Sangfire City, Xiao Tian and the others were forcibly expelled from the Nether Realm and appeared atop Mount Tai.
• Xiao Tian released Immortal in Wine, Demon Spirit, and Yanyan, and the group defeated Carefree Realm experts while Black Peng King postponed his demonization plan.