Recaps

Lu Changsheng, Liu Ziru, and Huang Qian attended the Hao Tian Banquet in disguise, where a Heaven-Examining Realm exposed disguised guests. After they revealed themselves, Ji Qianyao searched the crowd for Lu Changsheng while rival factions sized one another up, and the Hao Tian Divine Sect began explaining the banquet rules.

• Lu Changsheng, Liu Ziru, and Huang Qian entered Hao Tian Hall in disguise, where Liu Ziru pointed out several powerful competing factions.
• A burly man from the Hao Tian Divine Sect used the Heaven-Examining Realm to expose disguised guests, forcing Lu Changsheng and his companions to reveal themselves and making more than a dozen God Lord-level faction agents leave.
• Ji Qianyao searched the crowd for Lu Changsheng, who concealed his presence, while her elder urged her to focus on the competitors.
• Deng Qiu told He Lian to demonstrate the strength of the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall, but He Lian remained focused on the Jade Lake Immortal Palace.
• Jin Wujin said the Golden-Winged Peng Clan could secure a seat but identified He Lian and the Necromancer Palace's fighter as troublesome rivals.
• The burly man announced that it was time to explain the Hao Tian Banquet rules.

At the Hao Tian Banquet, Ding Wei announced that factions could claim ten seats to gain entry to the Hao Tian Divine Domain and investigate spatial disturbances. Lu Changsheng arranged for Huang Qian and Liu Ziru to compete while keeping himself out of sight, as challengers began stepping onto the arenas.

• Ding Wei explained that the Hao Tian Divine Sect would not compete and that five seats were for juniors at the God King Realm or below, while the other five were open to God Emperor Realm experts and above.
• Ding Wei raised ten arenas outside Hao Tian Hall and announced that anyone standing on one when the sun rose would claim a banquet seat.
• Lu Changsheng told Huang Qian and Liu Ziru to claim arenas, and Liu Ziru agreed to represent the Cottage after Lu Changsheng reminded him of his progress.
• Jin Wujin took the first lower arena, then He Lian, Gu Jing, and Ji Qianyao each stepped onto an arena.
• Ji Qianyao looked toward the empty upper arenas, hoping Lu Changsheng would appear, while he stayed back to avoid being discovered.

Huang Qian entered an upper arena at the Hao Tian Banquet, drawing attention with her powerful flame. She defeated Deng Qiu, a peak God Emperor Realm elder of the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall, with ease.

• Huang Qian teleported onto an upper arena after Lu Changsheng left the decision to her.
• Experts recognized Huang Qian's flame as Nirvana Fire, while Divine Lord Hao Tian sensed that it was even stronger than Nirvana Fire.
• Deng Qiu challenged Huang Qian and attacked with lightning and his spear, believing her late God Emperor Realm strength would limit her.
• Huang Qian swept Deng Qiu off the arena with a vortex of flame before he could fight back.

Huang Qian overwhelmed Deng Qiu with Divine Phoenix Fire, while Lu Changsheng discouraged Liu Ziru from encouraging her to establish her own faction. As the Hao Tian Banquet challenges continued, Liu Ziru entered an arena and trapped his opponent in a Dark Domain cage.

• Huang Qian blasted Deng Qiu from the arena with Divine Phoenix Fire and recalled the flames after he asked who she was.
• Liu Ziru praised Huang Qian's strength, and Lu Changsheng ordered him to challenge someone before he could give her ideas about forming a faction.
• As the night wore on, He Lian, Gu Jing, Jin Wujin, and Ji Qianyao held their lower arenas, while nobody challenged Huang Qian.
• Liu Ziru asked Lu Changsheng's permission to enter the competition and leaped onto an arena to face an elder of the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall.
• Liu Ziru engulfed the arena and his opponent in a dark cage, revealing the Dark Domain's methods.

Liu Ziru defeated a middle God Emperor Realm opponent, but the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall then targeted him with a late God Emperor Realm elder. Trapped in a cage of lightning, Liu Ziru hinted that he had hidden another technique.

• Liu Ziru used darkness and a silver dagger to defeat his middle God Emperor Realm opponent.
• Deng Qiu urged the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elders to retaliate against Liu Ziru, and they gathered beside his arena.
• A late God Emperor Realm elder challenged Liu Ziru and demanded that he leave the stage.
• The elder summoned lightning and trapped Liu Ziru in a cage, restricting his assassination techniques.
• Liu Ziru said that he had kept a few tricks hidden.

Liu Ziru wounded a Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elder with a pair of sneak attacks, then faced the elder’s Acala divine art. He used Dark Spirit Replacement to pierce the elder’s chest and cripple his cultivation.

• Liu Ziru escaped the elder’s lightning cage and used two successive sneak attacks to cut a deep wound in the elder’s back.
• Huang Qian and Ding Wei praised Liu Ziru’s ability, while Lu Changsheng privately resolved to keep using him.
• The elder summoned Acala and attacked Liu Ziru with a giant lightning palm and a storm of lightning.
• Liu Ziru charged into the palm, concealed himself in darkness, and invoked Dark Spirit Replacement.
• A dark-shrouded dagger carrying both darkness and lightning pierced the elder’s chest and dantian, crippling his cultivation.

Liu Ziru used Dark Spirit Replacement to defeat an elder from the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall, but he was too injured to continue fighting. Lu Changsheng took his place and revealed a sky full of swords formed from Sword Dao Law, leaving his opponents and the spectators stunned.

• Liu Ziru used Dark Spirit Replacement to return an elder's attack and defeat him, then challenged the remaining elders despite his injuries.
• A late God Emperor Realm elder doubted Liu Ziru could use Dark Spirit Replacement again, and another elder entered the arena to fight him.
• Lu Changsheng appeared beside Liu Ziru and ordered him to rest while he took over the fight.
• Lu Changsheng faced the remaining Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elders and summoned millions of solid swords formed from Sword Dao Law.
• Ji Qianyao smiled at Lu Changsheng's arrival, while the elder opposite him froze at the sight of his swords.

Lu Changsheng crushed an elder of the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall with his sword Dao, leaving the arena in stunned silence. He challenged the hall to send another opponent, while the spectators wondered at the extent of his power.

• Lu Changsheng summoned millions of swords, suppressing every sword cultivator present and startling the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elder.
• The elder attacked Lu Changsheng with a lightning spear, but Lu Changsheng's swords blocked the strike and forced him to retreat.
• Lu Changsheng's swords overwhelmed the elder's Acala manifestation and engulfed him in a sea of blades.
• Ding Wei questioned whether Lu Changsheng had hidden his true cultivation, while Jin Wujin, Ji Qianyao, and He Lian watched from another arena.
• Lu Changsheng told the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall to send up another challenger.

Lu Changsheng killed a Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elder and secured a seat at the Hao Tian Banquet, where Ji Qianyao openly showed her affection for him. The banquet ended with the victors gathered in Hao Tian Hall, while Lu Changsheng faced jealous looks from He Lian and the Jade Lake Immortal Palace elders.

• Lu Changsheng annihilated the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elder who had attacked Liu Ziru, and Deng Qiu vowed to deal with him inside the Hao Tian Divine Domain.
• The ten arena victors were decided, including Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, Ji Qianyao, and Shen Wuchang, and Ding Wei invited them into Hao Tian Hall.
• Ding Wei congratulated the victors and said he would explain the spatial disturbances after the banquet.
• Ji Qianyao watched Lu Changsheng, prompting Huang Qian to ask when they had become involved and to express surprise that a woman liked him.
• Ji Qianyao told Lu Changsheng she had missed him and hoped to cultivate enough to travel with him, while he inwardly lamented the trouble her affection caused.

Lu Changsheng set out to investigate spatial disturbances in the Hao Tian Divine Domain after rejecting Ji Qianyao’s offer to work with him. Divine Lord Hao Tian chose to watch the visitors search for the Heart of Space, while Lu Changsheng used his mastery of spatial Dao to begin sweeping the domain with his concealed divine sense.

• Ding Wei explained that visitors had three days to investigate the spatial disturbances, could fight to the death, and could not enter the Hao Tian Divine Sect without permission.
• Ji Qianyao rejected He Lian’s proposal to join forces and said she would give Lu Changsheng the Heart of Space if he agreed to work with her; Lu Changsheng chose to act alone.
• The other forces departed, while Huang Qian teased Lu Changsheng about Ji Qianyao and Lu Changsheng urged Liu Ziru to begin the investigation.
• Ding Wei reported to Divine Lord Hao Tian that the visitors had set out, and Divine Lord Hao Tian decided to let them search for clues while he monitored them.
• Lu Changsheng concealed his divine sense and began searching the Hao Tian Divine Domain for the shifting spatial disturbances.

Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru raced to a massive spatial disturbance in the western mountains of the Hao Tian Divine Domain, while several major forces converged there as well. Lu Changsheng began examining the distortion as more powerful presences approached.

• Deng Qiu and the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elders vowed to settle their score with Lu Changsheng’s group and prepared to follow the next spatial disturbance.
• A burly Half-Step Divine Lord tried to recruit Lu Changsheng and Huang Qian to search for disturbances, but they refused and recognized him as an outsider force’s agent.
• After Liu Ziru recovered, Lu Changsheng sensed a disturbance in the west and carried Huang Qian and Liu Ziru there at speed.
• The Primordial Divine Thunder Hall, Golden-Winged Peng Clan, Necromancer Palace, and Jade Lake Immortal Palace also headed toward the western mountains, while Divine Lord Hao Tian hoped the disturbance would draw someone out.
• Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru arrived first and found an immense area of distorted space as more than a dozen presences approached.

Lu Changsheng concealed his investigation into a spatial anomaly, but He Lian and Deng Qiu used its disappearance as an excuse to attack him and his companions. Huang Qian faced four Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elders alone as their lightning strikes descended.

• Lu Changsheng drew a wisp of spatial presence from the anomaly, which disappeared as the four factions arrived.
• Deng Qiu accused Lu Changsheng of hiding clues, and Lu Changsheng challenged him to attack rather than make excuses.
• He Lian ordered an assault, and four elders from the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall surrounded Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru with Acala figures and lightning.
• Ji Qianyao tried to intervene, but an elder from the Jade Lake Immortal Palace held her back.
• Lu Changsheng sent Huang Qian to fight, and she declared that one person was enough.
• Deng Qiu ordered all four elders to attack together, and their lightning palms bore down on Huang Qian.

Huang Qian overwhelmed the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elders with Divine Phoenix Fire, killing them after they unleashed Acala. Divine Lord Hao Tian took notice of Huang Qian and Lu Changsheng, whom he found especially difficult to see through, while Lu Changsheng said they would visit the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall anyway.

• Jin Wujin and the Golden-Winged Peng Clan elders felt their bloodlines submit to Huang Qian and wondered if she was a surviving descendant of the Phoenix Clan.
• Deng Qiu and the other three Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elders joined forces to unleash Acala against Huang Qian, but her Divine Phoenix Fire overwhelmed their attack.
• Huang Qian used Desolation Breaking to engulf the four Acalas and the elders, scattering their souls and leaving no trace of their bodies.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian saw the distant eruption of Divine Phoenix Fire and told Ding Wei that he wanted to meet Huang Qian and Lu Changsheng, especially because Lu Changsheng was hard to see through.
• Huang Qian said the elders had been weaker than she expected, and Lu Changsheng replied that they would have to visit the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall anyway.

Huang Qian defeated the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elders, and Lu Changsheng decided to investigate a coming spatial disturbance before confronting the hall. He discovered the disturbance seemed deliberately created and met a mysterious man beside a silver pool.

• Huang Qian killed the grand elder and three elders, and she and Lu Changsheng said they would visit the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall.
• He Lian challenged their confidence, but Liu Ziru swallowed him in darkness; Lu Changsheng scolded Liu Ziru for failing to interrogate him first.
• Lu Changsheng waited for the next spatial disturbance because he hoped it would provide clues to the Heart of Space and help Xiao Shitou grow stronger.
• Lu Changsheng secretly investigated the disturbance’s location and sensed that someone had triggered it deliberately using Space Dao Laws.
• Lu Changsheng noticed a man drinking by a silver pool, approached him, and heard him ask who he was.

Lu Changsheng discovered that Divine Lord Hao Tian had staged the spatial disturbance investigation to expose spies in his sect, then recognized the flaw blocking Hao Tian’s cultivation. Hao Tian offered the Hao Tian Divine Sect’s resources in exchange for guidance, and Lu Changsheng accepted the wine as he considered the offer.

• Lu Changsheng found no clues to the Heart of Space and realized Divine Lord Hao Tian had been waiting for him at the spatial disturbance.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian admitted he had used the investigation as bait to expose spies in the Hao Tian Divine Sect who might seek clues from Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng criticized Hao Tian for acting against his nature and dismissed his offer of a favor.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian was shocked when Lu Changsheng identified the heart cavity as the obstacle that had stalled his cultivation technique for ten thousand years.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian offered to make all the Hao Tian Divine Sect’s resources available to Lu Changsheng, provided it did not violate his Dao heart, and Lu Changsheng accepted the wine as he considered the deal.

Lu Changsheng explained that Divine Lord Hao Tian’s fear of risking his position had kept him from tempering his heart chamber, then guided him through a dangerous session using his power of unending life to protect him. Hao Tian thanked Lu Changsheng and offered his help, while Lu Changsheng told Huang Qian and Liu Ziru to leave the Hao Tian Divine Domain and deal with anyone who stopped them.

• Lu Changsheng told Divine Lord Hao Tian that his responsibilities had made him too cautious to temper his heart chamber with full force.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian recalled his former fearless resolve, accepted the risk, and agreed to trust Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng pressed a finger to Hao Tian’s heart chamber as Hao Tian used his Gravity Magnetic Field technique to temper it.
• Over four hours, Lu Changsheng increased the intensity and used his power of unending life to repair Hao Tian’s cracked heart meridians when they neared their limit.
• After the session, Lu Changsheng said two more sessions would be needed, and Hao Tian thanked him and offered his future assistance.
• Lu Changsheng told Huang Qian and Liu Ziru to leave the Hao Tian Divine Domain and deal thoroughly with anyone who tried to stop them.

Huang Qian revealed her peak God Lord Realm strength to eliminate the spies who had followed her and Liu Ziru. Back with Lu Changsheng, Divine Lord Hao Tian completed his heart tempering, and Lu Changsheng declared the process successful.

• Huang Qian and Liu Ziru realized the Hao Tian Divine Sect had used them to draw out spies from rival factions.
• Liu Ziru sealed the group inside an isolation formation, and the spies demanded information about the spatial disturbance.
• Huang Qian unleashed her peak God Lord Realm power and burned one spy away with Divine Phoenix Fire while the others were immobilized.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian began his second heart tempering and asked Lu Changsheng whether Huang Qian and Liu Ziru could handle the spies.
• Lu Changsheng told Hao Tian to keep their involvement secret, and Hao Tian swore a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• Huang Qian and Liu Ziru returned, and Lu Changsheng said Hao Tian's heart tempering had been completed successfully.

Lu Changsheng helped Divine Lord Hao Tian temper his heart chamber and reach the peak God Lord Realm, then set out with Huang Qian and Liu Ziru to destroy the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall. Divine Lord Hao Tian ordered his sect not to provoke Lu Changsheng and wondered whether he had reached the legendary God Emperor Realm.

• Lu Changsheng's cultivation caused world-shaking tremors as he tempered Divine Lord Hao Tian's heart chamber.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian broke through to the peak God Lord Realm and pledged the Hao Tian Divine Sect's aid to Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng asked where the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall was and said he intended to wipe it out before it could retaliate.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian gave Lu Changsheng the hall's location, and Lu Changsheng left with Huang Qian and Liu Ziru.
• After Lu Changsheng departed, Divine Lord Hao Tian ordered Ding Wei to warn the sect against provoking Lu Changsheng and his companions.

Huang Qian confronted He Lei at the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall and faced the hall’s Acala Formation, which reached the early God Lord Realm. The chapter ended as He Lei and Acala attacked her with a massive lightning-powered punch.

• He Lei learned that Deng Qiu, He Lian, and the others’ soul tablets had shattered, but his elders had found no trace of their deaths.
• Huang Qian arrived at the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall, surrounding its sea of lightning with flames and admitting she had killed the hall’s people.
• He Lei ordered the hall’s combatants to gather and form the Acala Formation.
• The disciples, elders, and grand elders combined their strength with the lightning plasma to summon Acala, whose power reached the early God Lord Realm.
• He Lei struck at Huang Qian through Acala, and Huang Qian pointed a finger at the incoming attack.

Huang Qian destroyed the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall after He Lei failed to summon its ancestor. Beneath the lightning sea, Lu Changsheng killed the ancestor’s remnant soul, took the coffin, and discovered a jade box hidden beneath it.

• Huang Qian pierced Acala with divine phoenix fire, destroying the formation and killing the disciples and elders within it.
• He Lei summoned the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall’s ancestor, but the token produced no response, and Huang Qian burned the hall to the ground.
• Liu Ziru joined Huang Qian and wondered why Lu Changsheng had not returned from beneath the sea of lightning.
• Lu Changsheng explained to the ancestor that he had destroyed the hall to prevent future threats, then shredded the remnant soul and erased every trace of it.
• Lu Changsheng took the primordial lightning-struck wood coffin for Mu Fusheng and found a jade box beneath it.

Lu Changsheng found divine lightning primal essence beneath the founding ancestor’s coffin and decided to give it to Mu Fusheng. Meanwhile, Divine Lord Hao Tian confronted the other Divine Lords over their dead covert agents and revealed he had reached the peak God Lord Realm, forcing the meeting to end without a fight.

• Lu Changsheng opened the jade box with an external incarnation, found a stone filled with concentrated lightning power, and destroyed the burial ground as he left.
• Lu Changsheng showed the jade box to Huang Qian and Liu Ziru, who identified its contents as rare divine lightning primal essence.
• Lu Changsheng decided to give the essence to Mu Fusheng, then returned to Mortal Village with Huang Qian and Liu Ziru.
• The Divine Lords convened after discovering their covert agents in the Hao Tian Divine Domain had died, and Divine Lord Hao Tian refused to apologize for their deaths.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian revealed his peak God Lord Realm strength, dissuaded the other Divine Lords from starting a war, and kept his connection to Lu Changsheng secret.

After destroying the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall, Lu Changsheng returned to Mortal Village, where the teacher warned him that a far greater calamity awaited. Meanwhile, Ji Qianyao chose to begin a trial at the Jade Lake Ancestral Land.

• Divine Lord Hao Tian and the other God Lord Realm experts investigated the source of Hao Tian's breakthrough as news spread that the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall had been destroyed.
• Jin Wujin feared for the Golden-Winged Peng Clan, while Ji Qianyao kept Lu Changsheng's involvement secret from the Jade Lake Immortal Palace elders.
• Ji Liuzhi dismissed the elders and agreed to take Ji Qianyao to the Jade Lake Ancestral Land after Ji Qianyao declared she was ready to begin.
• Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru returned to Mortal Village, where the teacher asked Lu Changsheng about destroying the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall.
• The teacher warned Lu Changsheng that the evil demon seal calamity was minor compared with what would come next, but refused to explain further.

Lu Changsheng planned to take his disciples to the Immortal Realm after they reached the Earth Immortal Realm, while the Cottage disciples rapidly strengthened in the Mid-Latitude Realm. The chapter ended with the disciples considering how to find the Kunlun Ruins and its soul fragment, though Mu Fusheng warned they were not strong enough to enter the Endless Sea.

• Lu Changsheng told Huang Qian he planned to head to the Immortal Realm soon, help his disciples convert their Qi, and investigate the seal on the passage there.
• The Mid-Latitude Realm's powerful forces warned their subordinates not to antagonize Ye Qiubai and the other Cottage disciples because of Lu Changsheng.
• Shi Sheng reached the Middle Earth Immortal Realm, Xiao Hei grew to the Late Earth Immortal Realm through brutal training, and the other Cottage disciples advanced their strength in their own ways.
• Mu Wan'er emerged from seclusion at the Early Earth Immortal Realm as the Cottage disciples gathered at the Cloud Phoenix Empire's new foothold.
• Xiao Hei said he wanted to find the Kunlun Ruins to obtain a soul fragment, and Shi Sheng suggested asking Zi Shan for information.
• Mu Fusheng warned that the Kunlun Ruins were likely deep in the Endless Sea and that the disciples were not yet strong enough to venture there.

Shi Sheng stayed behind with Zi Shan while Mu Fusheng and the others left, and High-Latitude factions investigated Divine Lord Hao Tian’s breakthrough and the Heart of Space. The Soul Lord ordered his followers to find Lu Changsheng and secure the Heart of Space, leaving the Departed Soul Spirit Palace committed to competing for it.

• Zi Shan told Shi Sheng that the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce had almost no information about the Kunlun Ruins or the depths of the Endless Sea, and offered to show him around after Mu Fusheng and the others departed.
• Divine Lord-level factions linked the Hao Tian Banquet and the destruction of the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall, then began suspecting Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru had concealed their strength.
• The Supervisory Sacred Hall chose to stay neutral in the contest for the Heart of Space and focused on sending people to investigate the Endless Sea.
• The Soul Lord questioned an old man about the Jade Lake Immortal Palace and threatened him until he promised to find Lu Changsheng’s whereabouts.
• The Soul Lord told the second elder that the Departed Soul Spirit Palace had to obtain the Heart of Space, even if Divine Lord-level factions contested it.

Liu Ziru reported that the Heart of Space had appeared in the barren Ancestral Emperor Domain, and Lu Changsheng prepared to set out with an enormous stockpile of supplies. Divine Lord factions mobilized to contest the Heart, while Ji Qianyao decided to go and help Lu Changsheng obtain it.

• Liu Ziru told Lu Changsheng that the Heart of Space had appeared in the Ancestral Emperor Domain, which the gentleman explained had once been the High-Latitude Realm’s strongest domain before a devastating war left it barren.
• Lu Changsheng tossed Liu Ziru and Huang Qian supplies he had prepared, including formation scrolls, talismans, and pills, then announced they would head to the Ancestral Emperor Domain.
• Divine Lord-level factions received the news and assembled teams, while Divine Lord Hao Tian ordered his sect’s elites to prevent rival factions from obtaining the Heart and to help Lu Changsheng if they encountered him.
• Ji Liuzhi praised Ji Qianyao for reaching the Peak Stage of the God King Realm and awakening her bloodline, then learned that Ji Qianyao planned to help Lu Changsheng obtain the Heart of Space.