Recaps

Lu Changsheng strengthened the Ancient Battlefield’s defenses and unveiled cannons powerful enough to rival Peak God Emperor attacks. With less than two days before the enemy arrived, he took Shi Sheng to remove the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda so he could repair and improve it.

• The Immortal Emperor showed Lu Changsheng and Teacher the defenses and asked Lu Changsheng to strengthen the arrays.
• Lu Changsheng reinforced the defenses, then placed roughly two hundred cannons on the city walls; Divine Lord Hao Tian accidentally fired one and destroyed a tower.
• The Immortal Emperor warned that the Evil Devil Domain would arrive in less than two days, and Lu Changsheng left with Shi Sheng to handle another matter.
• Lu Changsheng entered the Immortal Realm Passage and told Shi Sheng to take the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda, explaining that its remaining suppressive power would last for two days.
• Lu Changsheng saw the Pagoda’s flaws and planned to repair and improve it.

After Shi Sheng took possession of the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda, Lu Changsheng began repairing it while the Evil Devil Domain prepared to attack. The Evil Lord and Devil God broke the barrier two days early, and the Mortal Realm mobilized to meet the invasion.

• Shi Sheng claimed the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda, broke through to the mid-stage God Lord realm, and returned with Lu Changsheng to the Changsheng Realm.
• Lu Changsheng began repairing the pagoda by clearing away Evil Devil Qi and restoring its Power of Rules, surprising the four Human Ancestors’ remnant souls.
• The four elders summoned the Evil Lord and Devil God, who gathered the forces’ Evil Devil Qi into a spear and shattered the barrier.
• The Evil Lord ordered the armies to raze the Mortal Realm, and the Devil God commanded them to advance through the Immortal Realm Passage.
• The Immortal Emperor sensed the invasion and put the Ancient Battlefield on alert, Divine Lord Hao Tian contacted Lu Changsheng, and three old men appeared outside the city walls.

As the Mortal Realm prepared for war, Lu Changsheng’s allies and several Immortal Ancestors gathered to face the Evil Devil Domain’s first assault. The enemy’s advance was stalled by a powerful flight-restricting formation, forcing the Evil Lord and Devil God to establish their base behind the mountains.

• Mu Zhengting and Mu Qingqing sent supplies as factions across the Mortal Realm mobilized for battle.
• The seven Divine Lords, the Primordial Sword Master, and other experts assembled on the city walls, while Ye Qiubai arrived and said Lu Changsheng would watch from the shadows.
• The Evil Lord and Devil God sent aerial troops and nearly three hundred God Emperor experts over the mountains, but the formation slowed or grounded them.
• The Evil Lord and Devil God failed to locate the formation’s foundation and sensed a bare plain beyond the mountains.
• The Evil Lord and Devil God ordered their logistics troops to establish a base before the mountains, as the Immortal Emperor had intended.

The Mortal Realm’s leaders prepared to face the overwhelming Evil Devil Domain army, while the Immortal Emperor and the others learned that Elder Yang was a half-step Immortal Ancestor. The three Immortal Ancestors went to meet the Devil God and Evil Lord as the enemy forces reached the plain, leaving the Mortal Realm’s defenders to face the coming battle.

• The Dark Lord reported that the Evil Devil Domain had nearly three hundred God Emperors in reserve and suspected the Divine Realm was supporting it.
• Elder Yang arrived and revealed his standing as an equal to the three Immortal Ancestors, while the defenders worried that their forces remained badly outnumbered.
• Ye Qiubai reassured the others that Lu Changsheng would intervene if the battle became impossible to handle, and the defenders awaited the enemy’s approach.
• The Immortal Emperor ordered everyone to prepare as the Evil Devil Domain’s army advanced beneath blood-colored clouds.
• The three Immortal Ancestors confronted the Devil God and Evil Lord, then the enemy army reached the plain under the flight-restricting array.

The Immortal Realm and Mortal Realm opened the battle with cannons powered by the Power of Rules, inflicting heavy losses on the Evil Devil Domain before its Purgatory Imperial Guard charged the walls. Mu Fusheng strengthened the defenders with Divine Talismans of Creation, and the Immortal Emperor and Mortal Realm leaders prepared to burn their lives and souls as the vastly outnumbered sides faced the attack.

• The Immortal Emperor ordered two hundred cannons to fire, and their Power of Rules blasts devastated the front ranks of the Evil Devil Domain's army.
• The grand elder sent the Purgatory Imperial Guard to intercept the cannonballs and charge the walls.
• The Immortal Emperor, Elder Yang, Huang Qian, and the Immortal Realm's God Emperors went out to meet the attackers, while Mu Fusheng gave them Divine Talismans of Creation that raised some of their cultivation stages.
• The Immortal Emperor called on the defenders to fight to the death, and the Immortal Realm experts began burning their lives and souls.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian, the Primordial Sword Master, and the other Mortal Realm Divine Lords crossed the walls to join the battle as the Evil Devil Domain's forces approached.

As the Immortal Emperor’s forces prepared for a final assault, Grandpa Yao appeared and killed the Purgatory Imperial Guard’s leader with one finger. He forced both sides to suspend their God Emperor Realm fighters, and the Evil Devil Domain withdrew its guard.

• The Immortal Emperor’s forces prepared to burn their lives in a desperate attack while the Purgatory Imperial Guard charged them.
• Huang Qian revealed her Divine Phoenix form, and the Devil God ordered that she be captured alive as his mount.
• Grandpa Yao appeared between the armies and killed the Purgatory Imperial Guard’s leader with a single finger.
• Mu Wan’er recognized Grandpa Yao as the herbalist she had once met while gathering spirit herbs in the Purple Extremity Domain.
• Grandpa Yao proposed that God Emperor Realm experts on both sides refrain from fighting, and the Devil God and Evil Lord accepted after realizing they could not gauge his strength.
• The Devil God and Evil Lord ordered the Purgatory Imperial Guard to withdraw.

The Mortal Realm celebrated its first victory after Elder Yao halted the Purgatory Imperial Guard, but Mu Fusheng and Hong Ying suspected that he knew Lu Changsheng was watching. On the third day, the Evil Devil Domain launched another assault behind the Black Devil Evil God Shield, forcing the defenders to prepare for battle.

• The Evil Devil Domain's army retreated, and the Dark Lord ordered news of the Mortal Realm's victory spread while the Immortal Emperor organized recovery and defenses.
• Mu Wan'er and the Immortal Ancestors questioned Elder Yao about his strength and origins, but he declined to explain and left the next decisions to the others.
• Mu Fusheng and Hong Ying concluded that Elder Yao probably knew Lu Changsheng was observing the battlefield, and Elder Yao secretly glanced at them without commenting.
• Three days later, the Evil Devil Domain returned with the Black Devil Evil God Shield, which withstood the defenders' cannon fire without cracking.
• The grand elder ordered the Evil Devil Domain's forces to advance, and the Immortal Emperor and the sect leaders prepared their fighters for the coming battle.
• Ye Qiubai readied his sword and told his companions not to disgrace their master, prompting Mu Fusheng to protest when Ye Qiubai mentioned Xiao Hei's cooking.

The Mortal Realm and Immortal Realm armies clashed with the Evil Devil Domain, whose disciplined shield-and-spear formation inflicted heavy casualties. Fang Qiong and Mu Fusheng countered the Great Chaos Array, leaving the rear ranks exposed as Ye Qiubai and the others prepared to press their attack.

• The Immortal Emperor ordered the allied forces to charge while ranged fighters and talisman masters supported them from the walls.
• The Devil Shield Army and Evil Spear Army broke the allied front, while ranged attacks from the rear drove their forces back with heavy losses.
• The Evil Devil Domain's grand elder ordered the Devious Arts Imperial Guards to deploy the Great Chaos Array, which dispersed attacks from arrays and talismans below the God Lord Realm.
• Fang Qiong formed God Lord-level arrays and Mu Fusheng unleashed hundreds of God Lord-level talismans.
• Fang Qiong used the Primordial Beginning Array to stop the Great Chaos Array from drawing on the Power of Rules, and he and Mu Fusheng bombarded the enemy's rear ranks.
• Ye Qiubai and the others smiled and prepared to keep the spotlight from falling entirely on Fang Qiong and Mu Fusheng.

Ye Qiubai and his companions broke through the Evil Devil Domain’s ranks and briefly turned the tide, prompting enemy commanders to target them. Xiao Shitou faced five Late God Lord Realm commanders alone and used his Void Sacred Body to evade them and twist one commander’s arm through space.

• Mu Fusheng and Fang Qiong’s formations and talismans inflicted heavy losses on the Evil Devil Domain’s rear ranks and gave the frontline cultivators time to recover.
• Ye Qiubai revealed his Mystic Transformation Realm Sword Dao and pierced the Devil Shield Army’s formation, while Hong Ying, Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, Ning Chenxin, Mu Wan'er, and Xiao Shitou tore through the enemy ranks.
• The Mortal Realm and Immortal Realm cultivators rallied and temporarily halted the enemy advance, but the First Elder ordered dozens of Evil Devil Domain commanders to attack them.
• Five Late God Lord Realm commanders surrounded Xiao Shitou, who declined Hong Ying’s offer of help and chose to fight them alone.
• Xiao Shitou vanished into space to evade the commanders’ spears, then emerged behind one and twisted his arm before slipping back into space.

Xiao Shitou used his Void Sacred Body and mastery of space to kill the five Evil Spear Army commanders. While he and Ye Qiubai’s group continued fighting, several Mortal Realm and Immortal Realm Divine Lords struggled, and the Heavenly Fire Divine Lord was killed.

• Xiao Shitou trapped five Evil Spear Army commanders in a Space Cage and killed three with swords of space.
• Xiao Shitou evaded the remaining two commanders’ attacks, immobilized them, and erased their heads by distorting space.
• Ye Qiubai and the other disciples returned to fighting the enemy army, while Xiao Shitou joined them after finding they needed no help.
• The Immortal Emperor watched Xiao Shitou’s battle and was astonished by his mastery of the Dao of Space.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian won but was gravely injured, while the Yin-Yang Divine Lord, the Firmament Divine Lord, and the Desolation Lord suffered defeats.
• The Heavenly Fire Divine Lord of Pure Yang Heavenly Fire Valley was surrounded and killed.

As the Evil Devil Domain’s army overwhelmed the Mortal and Immortal Realms, Mu Fusheng took command of the talisman masters and used a new talisman to gather their lightning and soul power. The Myriad Transformation Thunderstorm Talisman continued to absorb talismans from his spatial ring, and its power was still growing.

• The Heavenly Fire Divine Lord fell to four Late God Lord Realm commanders, while Divine Lord Hao Tian and the three Immortal Ancestors faced the advancing Evil Devil Domain army.
• Fang Qiong broke the Devious Arts Imperial Guard’s Great Chaos Array, but aerial strikers and marauders blocked most of the allied talisman and array attacks.
• Mu Fusheng asked the Immortal Emperor to halt the talisman masters’ attacks and used a lightning barrier to delay the enemy army.
• The Immortal Emperor ordered all talisman masters to follow Mu Fusheng, who directed lightning-attribute talismans toward his new Myriad Transformation Thunderstorm Talisman and had the others pour soul power into his brush.
• Mu Fusheng merged the lightning talismans into the new talisman, then broke open a spatial ring and added its vast store of talismans.

Mu Fusheng channeled countless lightning talismans into the Myriad Transformation Thunderstorm Talisman while the battlefield’s powerhouses tried to protect him and the enemy tried to stop him. Ye Qiubai and his companions held back the advancing army, and Ye Qiubai unleashed the Azure Cloud Sword’s power, carving a vast gap through the enemy ranks.

• The Evil Devil Domain’s grand elder ordered the Devious Arts Imperial Guard to attack Mu Fusheng, while the Immortal Emperor ordered the formation masters to protect him.
• Mu Fusheng told Ye Qiubai that he needed one incense stick to complete the talisman, and Ye Qiubai and his companions moved to hold back the enemy.
• Ye Qiubai revealed the Azure Cloud Sword, and the Evil Lord, Devil God, and Immortal Realm powerhouses recognized it as a sacred weapon.
• Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, Xiao Shitou, and Mu Wan'er unleashed their abilities to slow the Evil Devil Domain’s army.
• Ye Qiubai killed more than a dozen God Lord Realm commanders with a single sword strike.
• Ye Qiubai drew half the Azure Cloud Sword and unleashed a slash that split the ground and clouds, killing everyone in its path and opening a gap hundreds of li long in the enemy army.

Ye Qiubai and his companions held back the Evil Devil Domain’s army while Mu Fusheng unleashed the Myriad Transformation Thunderstorm Talisman, devastating the enemy forces and turning the second battle into a victory. The enemy retreated to its stronghold after Mu Fusheng bluffed that the talisman could strike again.

• Ye Qiubai and his companions fought at full strength, slowing the Evil Devil Domain’s advance and relieving pressure on the Mortal Realm and Immortal Realm forces.
• Mu Fusheng completed the Myriad Transformation Thunderstorm Talisman and withdrew Ye Qiubai and the others before directing its lightning toward the enemy army.
• The three Immortal Ancestors confronted the Evil Lord and Devil God, while Elder Yao warned them not to let God Emperor-level experts interfere.
• Mu Fusheng redirected the lightning spheres around the enemy’s shields and detonated them inside the army, destroying about twenty percent of its forces.
• The Immortal Emperor ordered a counterattack, and the Evil Devil Domain’s great elder ordered a retreat after Mu Fusheng pretended his talisman could be used again.

After Mu Fusheng’s talisman helped win the second battle, Ye Qiubai proposed a surprise attack on the Evil Devil Domain’s base to disrupt its supplies before its third assault. He and the others reached the mountains under cover of night, where they discovered the enemy was also moving in secret.

• The Evil Devil Domain’s army retreated to reorganize after suffering heavy losses, while Mu Fusheng received credit for the victory.
• Ning Chenxin questioned whether war could be avoided, and his teacher urged him to seek his own answer while supporting his efforts.
• The Dark Domain publicized the victory, boosting morale and prompting Mortal Realm factions and Rogue Cultivators to send aid to the front lines.
• Ye Qiubai persuaded the Immortal Emperor and the teacher to approve a plan to sneak through the mountains and destroy the Evil Devil Domain’s base.
• Mu Fusheng left talismans to help defend the front, and Ye Qiubai and the others crossed the plain under concealment and hid in the mountains.
• Before sunrise, Ye Qiubai and the others spotted Evil Devil Domain soldiers advancing beneath black cloaks for a surprise attack.

Ye Qiubai and his companions helped the Mortal Realm prepare for the Evil Devil Domain’s third assault, then attacked the enemy’s strongholds and destroyed most of its supplies. The Purgatory Imperial Guard confronted them, but Elder Yao’s prohibition prevented the God Emperor experts from attacking.

• Ye Qiubai and his companions warned the Immortal Emperor of the concealed army, prompting defenses and traps to be prepared before the Evil Devil Domain began its third attack.
• As the armies clashed on the plain, Ye Qiubai and his companions crossed the mountains and found the enemy strongholds lightly guarded by troops below the God Emperor realm.
• Ye Qiubai sent Xiao Shitou to locate the supply stores and plant Mu Fusheng’s talismans while remaining undetected.
• Mu Fusheng activated the talismans, and their lightning blasts destroyed eighty percent of the Evil Devil Domain army’s supplies.
• The Purgatory Imperial Guard demanded that Ye Qiubai and the others show themselves, but Ye Qiubai reminded them that Elder Yao would retaliate if they attacked.

Xiao Hei and Ye Qiubai’s group attacked the Evil Devil Domain’s rear strongholds, destroying troops and supplies while God Emperor Realm experts remained barred from intervening. Xiao Hei relentlessly battered a Half-Step God Emperor Realm expert as the Evil Lord and Devil God received news that most of their logistical supplies had been destroyed.

• A God Emperor ordered the Evil Devil Domain’s armies to attack Ye Qiubai and his companions, while the God Emperors remained forbidden to act.
• Xiao Hei shattered the combined palm strike of four Mid-Stage God Lord Realm commanders and killed them with a single punch.
• Xiao Hei charged into the army, and Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Shi Sheng, and the others joined the assault to create chaos and disrupt the front lines.
• Eight Half-Step God Emperor Realm experts confronted the group, and Xiao Hei traded injuries with a dark-faced man before hammering him into the ground with repeated blows.
• The elders, the Evil Lord, and the Devil God received word that the rear strongholds were under attack and eighty percent of their logistical supplies had been destroyed.

The Evil Devil Domain’s third assault nearly reached the city walls, but Ye Qiubai and the others’ attack on its rear forced the enemy to withdraw. The Mortal Realm and Immortal Realm celebrated their defense, while the three Immortal Ancestors grew wary of the Evil Lord and Devil God’s unnerving calm.

• The Evil Devil Domain’s third assault overwhelmed the front lines, and the Immortal Emperor and the teacher feared the defenders could not hold the wall without Ye Qiubai and the others.
• The four elders learned that Ye Qiubai and the others had destroyed eighty percent of the supplies at the enemy base, and they debated withdrawing to protect their rear.
• The Evil Lord ordered the troops to withdraw, and the first elder relayed the command to the army.
• The Immortal Emperor announced that Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng, Shi Sheng, Mu Wan'er, Xiao Shitou, and Fang Qiong had earned the greatest credit by attacking the enemy base.
• The Mortal Realm and Immortal Realm celebrated the retreat, while the Evil Lord and Devil God warned the three Immortal Ancestors that the celebration might be premature.
• After the Evil Lord and Devil God departed, the three Immortal Ancestors exchanged grave looks and suspected the enemy had another plan.

After Ye Qiubai and his companions destroyed most of the Evil Devil Domain's supplies, the enemy paused its attacks while both sides recovered. As the group discussed Lu Changsheng and Huang Qian, Mu Fusheng and Ning Chenxin sensed that something was wrong.

• The Evil Devil Domain's soldiers condemned their failed offensives, but the Devil God revealed their attacks had worn down the defenders and ordered the protesting commander killed for undermining morale.
• Ye Qiubai and his companions returned to the city wall, where Divine Lord Hao Tian praised them and the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and Desolation Lord tried to reconcile; Ye Qiubai rejected their overtures.
• The Immortal Emperor sent Ye Qiubai and the others to rest, while the Dark Lord assigned elites to watch for another enemy raid.
• The Evil Devil Domain did not attack for six days as both armies replenished and healed, with Lu Changsheng's formations saving many defenders.
• Ji Qianyao expressed regret that Lu Changsheng was absent, and Ye Qiubai's companions teased him about her feelings before Huang Qian silenced him with a hostile look.
• Fang Qiong asked Mu Fusheng and Ning Chenxin what troubled them, and both said something was wrong.

Mu Fusheng and Ning Chenxin suspected the Evil Devil Domain was stalling, and the cautious, prolonged attack strengthened their suspicions. Their inspection of the Mortal Realm’s army found no intruders, but Liu Ziru’s report that the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord seemed unusually calm left Ning Chenxin questioning them.

• Mu Fusheng and Ning Chenxin noticed the Evil Devil Domain had waited six days after its third defeat, and Huang Qian offered to investigate its base.
• The Evil Devil Domain launched a slow, cautious attack that lasted seven days and six nights before withdrawing after advancing two-thirds of the way.
• Hong Ying, Ye Qiubai, and Mu Fusheng suspected the Devious Arts Imperial Guard might be infiltrating the Mortal Realm, so they asked the Immortal Emperor and the Teacher to inspect the army discreetly.
• The Devil God and the Evil Lord told the Devious King to continue the plan, while the Evil Lord revealed they were searching for someone who could raise the Evil Devil Domain’s power.
• After the inspections found no suspicious individuals, Mu Fusheng asked about the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord, and Ning Chenxin questioned Liu Ziru’s description of them as unusually calm.

Ning Chenxin’s observation led the alliance to suspect the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord of working with the Evil Devil Domain, but the pair had already escaped. Clues linked them and the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce to Xin Hongyi, and Ye Qiubai sent Mu Fusheng, Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, and Huang Qian to investigate their likely next target, the Boundless Realm.

• Ning Chenxin pointed out that the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord had seemed unnaturally calm, prompting the Immortal Emperor to order their arrest.
• Elder Yang and the Dark Lord returned after discovering that the Yin-Yang Divine Lord and the Desolation Lord had escaped, and the Dark Domain began searching for them and possible Evil Devil Domain pawns.
• The Dark Domain found that the Yin Yang Divine Sect and Eight Desolations Divine Sect had vanished, while reports linked their disciples and the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce to a campaign spreading despair across the Mortal Realm.
• Liu Ziru revealed that the Yin-Yang Divine Lord, the Desolation Lord, and the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce were under the command of a woman in red, whom Ye Qiubai identified as Xin Hongyi.
• After tracing the group’s movements through places Ye Qiubai and his companions had visited, Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Hong Ying concluded that the Boundless Realm might be their next target.
• Mu Fusheng, Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, and Huang Qian departed to investigate the Boundless Realm while Ye Qiubai and the others remained behind.

Mu Fusheng, Xiao Hei, and Shi Sheng traced their opponents’ clues from the Boundless Realm back to the Wilderness Realm, where they discovered dark Devil Qi at the place Xiao Hei had once been found. Zi Shan appeared and urged them to follow her to prevent the Wilderness Realm from being engulfed in war.

• Mu Fusheng visited Mu Zhengting and asked whether anything unusual had happened in the Boundless Realm.
• Xiao Hei noticed that their opponents had visited realms where they had previously stayed, and Mu Fusheng concluded that they were deliberately leaving clues.
• Mu Zhengting sent people to investigate, and they found a Tianjin Chamber of Commerce token and a note directing the group to where it all began.
• Mu Fusheng, Xiao Hei, and Shi Sheng returned to the Wilderness Realm and found dark Devil Qi rising from the place where Xiao Hei had been discovered.
• Xiao Hei recognized fragments of the black stone that had once sealed him, and Zi Shan arrived and told the group to follow her to avert war in the Wilderness Realm.

Zi Shan revealed that the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce had always been a hidden pawn of the Evil Devil Domain and demanded that Xiao Hei accompany her there. When Xiao Hei refused, the Devious Arts Imperial Guard attacked, and he killed one of its Half-Step God Emperor Realm members with a single punch before the others trapped him in the Ghost Shadow Kill Formation.

• Zi Shan told Mu Fusheng, Shi Sheng, and Xiao Hei that the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce had been a hidden pawn of the Evil Devil Domain and that Xin Hongyi was absent on important business.
• Zi Shan said the Evil Devil Domain wanted Xiao Hei to come with them, then threatened that it might destroy the Wilderness Realm if he refused.
• Xiao Hei vowed to avenge the Wilderness Realm and attacked a black-robed member of the Devious Arts Imperial Guard, tearing through his thorny vines and crushing his head with one punch.
• The three remaining Imperial Guard members surrounded Xiao Hei from the sky above the Xin Clan and began forming an array as he charged them.
• Xiao Hei struck at an illusory figure, then found himself surrounded by many apparent copies as the Imperial Guard activated the Ghost Shadow Kill Formation.

The Immortal Emperor and his allies faced defections among the High-Latitude Realm factions while struggling to defend the Ancient Battlefield. In the Wilderness Realm, Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng, and Shi Sheng defeated a Devious Arts Imperial Guard squad, but a formation spanning the entire realm appeared overhead.

• The teacher told the Immortal Emperor that the Yin Yang Divine Sect, the Eight Desolations Divine Sect, and numerous other factions had stopped sending resources, and Divine Lord Hao Tian urged a counterattack that the Firmament Divine Lord and Primordial Sword Master opposed.
• The Immortal Emperor asked the teacher for a solution, but the teacher said every option risked disaster, while the Heaven-Overturning Divine Lord watched silently from the tent entrance.
• Over a hundred black-robed figures surrounded Xiao Hei in the Xin Clan’s Southern Region and prepared to unleash the Ghost Shadow Kill Formation, but the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda descended and Mu Fusheng and Shi Sheng attacked with lightning and star power.
• Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng, and Shi Sheng defeated the formation and pinned three Devious Arts Imperial Guards beneath the pagoda; Xiao Hei killed two when they refused to explain why they had been ordered to capture him.
• As Xiao Hei prepared to deal with the last guard, he and his junior brothers saw a formation spanning the entire Wilderness Realm overhead.

Xin Hongyi and thirty Half-Step God Emperor Realm members of the Devious Arts Imperial Guard trapped Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng, and Shi Sheng in a formation over the Wilderness Realm. Xiao Hei was badly injured by its first attack, and the three prepared to fight on without asking their master for help.

• Qin Tiannan and others watched as a formation spread across the Wilderness Realm and pressed everyone to the ground.
• Xin Hongyi revealed that the three baited attackers had stalled Xiao Hei and his companions while thirty commanders set up the formation.
• Xin Hongyi said she wanted revenge for the Xin Clan and planned to bring Xiao Hei to the Evil Devil Domain because its higher-ups were searching for someone like him.
• The thirty commanders attacked, and Mu Fusheng and Shi Sheng joined Xiao Hei to resist the formation’s beams.
• The formation overwhelmed their defenses and sent Xiao Hei flying with several mouthfuls of blood.
• Mu Fusheng decided the three would fight on as their master had instructed, despite the danger.

Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, and Mu Fusheng fought the Evil God Heavenly Baleful Intent Formation with the power of their bloodlines, stars, and divine lightning. After Xiao Hei and Shi Sheng were driven into the earth, Mu Fusheng revealed a lightning spear whose power alarmed the Devious Arts Imperial Guard.

• Mu Fusheng used three Divine Talismans of Creation to boost his and his companions’ strength as they faced Xin Hongyi’s formation.
• Xiao Hei unleashed his bloodline power, suppressing the Evil Devil Domain bloodlines and convincing Xin Hongyi he was likely the person her lord sought.
• Shi Sheng wielded the Falling Star Divine Axe while Mu Fusheng gathered six kinds of ancient divine lightning, and Xiao Hei and Shi Sheng struck at the formation’s beams.
• Shi Sheng used the Heaven-Suppressing Pagoda to absorb the formation’s suppressive power, but the Devious Arts Imperial Guard intensified the formation and blasted Xiao Hei and Shi Sheng into the earth.
• Mu Fusheng raised a lightning spear charged with destructive power, making the members of the Devious Arts Imperial Guard turn toward him in alarm.