Recaps

Xiao Hei revealed that he had reached the Ancestor Realm and killed He Xiangwang with one punch on the Crown Prince Platform. The Second Elder threatened Xiao Hei before leaving, while Xiao Hei’s friends gathered around him and Tan Zongzhao asked him to visit his master.

• Xiao Hei displayed the perfected Eternal Devil Body and his Ancestor Realm cultivation, astonishing He Xiangwang and the spectators.
• He Xiangwang charged Xiao Hei with a flaming halberd, and the Second Elder tried to intervene before the First Elder stopped him.
• Xiao Hei shattered He Xiangwang’s halberd with one punch and killed him, leaving the Crown Prince Platform silent.
• The First Elder upheld the deathmatch rules, while the Second Elder threatened Xiao Hei and departed.
• Feng Ye and Tan Zongzhao congratulated Xiao Hei, and Tan Zongzhao told him to visit his master.

After Xiao Hei entered the Ancestor Realm and killed He Xiangwang, the group prepared for a trip to the Southern Desert, while Mu Fusheng stayed behind. Shi Sheng reached the highest point of Star Stone Mountain so far, where he sought a Star Core that raised Lu Changsheng’s suspicions about a hidden scheme.

• News spread that Xiao Hei had entered the Ancestor Realm and killed He Xiangwang with one punch, and he declined offers from elders and vice deans to become their disciple.
• The grand elder invited Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, and Mu Fusheng to seek Demigod-grade treasures in the Southern Desert, but Mu Fusheng refused to go.
• Mu Fusheng warned Shi Sheng not to bring back the Demigod-grade talisman brush, saying he wanted no connection to the secret realm or its karma.
• Shi Sheng announced that a Star Core had been confirmed at Star Stone Mountain’s summit, prompting Mu Fusheng and Xiao Hei to alert Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng suspected the Star Core had been placed in Chaotic Spirit Academy as part of a larger plan and told Mu Fusheng and Xiao Hei to investigate discreetly.
• Shi Sheng passed the other climbers and reached the highest point any Dao of Stars cultivator from Chaotic Spirit Academy had attained, where his Starry Sky Dantian trembled as he looked up at the enormous star.

Shi Sheng endured the crushing pressure near the summit of Star Stone Mountain and reached the third Star Core, beginning to absorb it. As the academy elders and vice deans watched his Starry Sky Dantian appear above the mountain, a fifth star began to take shape.

• Shi Sheng's third Star Core resonated with the Star Core on Star Stone Mountain, and the guardian spirit and Star God Emperor urged him to obtain it.
• Shi Sheng forced his way through the final stretch despite severe injuries, taking seventeen days to reach the summit.
• The guardian spirit and Star God Emperor praised Shi Sheng's willpower and helped him begin absorbing the Star Core.
• Shi Sheng's Starry Sky Dantian appeared above Star Stone Mountain as its power poured into him, drawing the attention of the academy elders and vice deans.
• Vice Dean Liu confirmed that the First Elder would soon become a vice dean, while Vice Dean Zhang praised his special recruits.
• Four stars shone within Shi Sheng's manifested Starry Sky Dantian, and a fifth star began to form.

Shi Sheng reached the summit of Star Stone Mountain, advanced to the peak God Emperor realm, and was invited to visit Star Sea Tower. As Ye Qiubai and the others departed for the Southern Desert, Mu Fusheng stayed behind, wary of the karma tied to the Nine Dragons Divine Dynasty.

• Shi Sheng completed his third Star Core, broke through to the peak God Emperor realm, and caused Star Sea Tower to resonate with Star Stone Mountain.
• Vice Dean Liu invited Shi Sheng to Star Sea Tower, while Vice Dean Zhang asked him to become his direct disciple; Shi Sheng declined because he already had a master.
• Shi Sheng returned to Heaven Character Courtyard No. 1 to consolidate his cultivation.
• Ye Qiubai and the others left for the Southern Desert, while Mu Fusheng refused to go after Fang Qiong hinted he feared Jiu Bailu.
• Mu Fusheng reconsidered the danger of karma from the Nine Dragons Divine Dynasty and posted a notice saying he was in seclusion.

Ye Qiubai and the others arrived in Desolate City, where they agreed to cooperate with the Nine Dragons Divine Dynasty and learned which local factions and outside powers might pose a threat. The Desolate Corps announced a banquet for the arrivals, leaving its true purpose uncertain.

• Ye Qiubai and the others reached Desolate City with the Grand Elder, and Tan Zongzhao warned them to avoid conflicts but respond forcefully if attacked.
• The crown prince and Jiu Bailu joined them at their inn, where Jiu Bailu asked whether Mu Fusheng had come and remarked that karma could not be escaped.
• The crown prince proposed cooperating, and Xiao Hei agreed after the Grand Elder left the choice and its consequences to them.
• The crown prince and Tan Zongzhao identified the Desolate Corps, the Sand Sea Sect, and the God Thief Sect as the desert’s major threats, then named the Black Tortoise Divine Dynasty as an outside power to watch.
• Xiao Hei explained that Mu Fusheng had antagonized the Black Tortoise Divine Dynasty through his closeness with Jiu Bailu, and offered to face the Xuanming Holy Son if he appeared.
• The Desolate Corps announced a banquet to welcome the factions gathered in Desolate City.

The Desolate Corps grew furious after outside factions ignored its banquet and gathered instead at the Desert Restaurant, where the Xuanming Holy Son hosted Ye Qiubai, the crown prince, and others. Huang Mangzi led desert factions to confront them, and the chapter ended with both sides facing off after the restaurant roof was cut away.

• Huang Mangzi argued with Sha Hai about the outsiders’ absence until he learned they had gathered at the Desert Restaurant, then led the desert factions there.
• Tan Zongzhao told Ye Qiubai that the Desolate Corps’ invitation was a show of force, while the crown prince said attending would make the Nine Dragons Divine Dynasty appear weak.
• The Xuanming Holy Son greeted Jiu Bailu, then insulted Xiao Hei’s group and Mu Fusheng, prompting Tan Zongzhao to challenge him.
• Huang Mangzi and the Desolate Corps arrived by slicing off the restaurant’s roof, and the gathered prodigies invited them down while making light of their threat.
• The crown prince warned Huang Mangzi that the Desolate Corps would face the assembled factions and their elders if it attacked.

Huang Mangzi and the desert factions threatened the gathered young talents, but senior figures intervened and persuaded them to avoid fighting before the inheritance secret realm opened. Huang Mangzi withdrew, promising to settle matters inside the tomb, while the Xuanming Holy Son reminded Xiao Hei that their battle with Mu Fusheng was still ahead.

• Huang Mangzi surrounded the restaurant with desert factions and pressured the young talents to attend his banquet, but the Xuanming Holy Son mocked their scarce resources and refused.
• Huang Mangzi used his late-stage demigod pressure against the crowd, then leered at Jiu Bailu and demanded she attend without the others.
• The Xuanming Holy Son and Xiao Hei both objected, and Xiao Hei said a junior brother might have a relationship with Jiu Bailu.
• The grand elder of the Chaotic Spirit Academy, the Xuanming Holy Son's Dao protector, and Elder Chu arrived to shield the young talents.
• The grand elder warned Huang Mangzi that a war before the inheritance secret realm opened would endanger the search for the tomb, so Huang Mangzi withdrew and vowed to settle matters there.
• After the factions departed, the Xuanming Holy Son reminded Xiao Hei of their coming battle and called Mu Fusheng a turtle hiding its head.

The Grand Elder explained the history of the Chaos Divine Dynasty's prince's principality, whose talisman experiments and conquests turned a forest into the Southern Desert. When the prince's tomb emerged, the gathered factions prepared to enter and search for the unfinished talisman.

• The Grand Elder told Xiao Hei and the others that the principality had drained a forest's life essence to create a powerful talisman, then conquered surrounding lands before the Mo Clan and other factions destroyed it.
• Ye Qiubai asked whether the tomb had drawn the factions because of the talisman, and the Grand Elder confirmed it while warning of the tomb's dangers and the Mo Clan's hidden presence.
• The Grand Elder told the group that the tomb would emerge at noon three days later and promised to guard them as they prepared.
• At noon, the sand surged and revealed a massive tortoise-shaped tomb surrounded by a barrier.
• The crown prince proposed that his group and the others enter together and keep whatever treasures they found, and the tomb gates slowly opened.

As Ye Qiubai and the others entered the tomb, they survived its death Qi and crossed the offering hall, where eerie flames secretly left the statue. In the service hall, three tomb keeper skeletons awakened and triggered a collapse, sending everyone underground.

• Black death Qi poured from the tomb gates, killing several sect prodigies before the survivors entered.
• Ye Qiubai, the crown prince, Jiu Bailu, and others bowed to the statue in the offering hall, while many searched for valuables.
• After everyone left, blue flames emerged from the statue's eyes and drifted into the tomb passage.
• The crown prince explained that the tomb's upper level led from the offering hall through the service hall to the burial mound, with greater dangers and treasures likely underground.
• Jiu Bailu noticed the spotless service hall and alerted the others to the three tomb keeper skeletons beside a table.
• The skeletons awakened, demanded that intruders become burial sacrifices or earn the prince's recognition, then collapsed the floor; a flight-prohibiting formation sent everyone falling underground.

Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and the others found a vast underground burial chamber filled with terracotta warriors and began fighting their way toward a distant door. As the warriors repeatedly reformed, Xiao Hei led the charge while Huang Jun planned to interfere with their group.

• Ye Qiubai and Xiao Hei woke in a yellow-lit hall with the crown prince, Jiu Bailu, the Xuanming Holy Son, Huang Jun, and several others, while Shi Sheng and Fang Qiong were missing.
• Xiao Hei spotted a vast pit filled with terracotta warriors and a distant door, and the group realized they had to cross it on foot.
• Huang Jun jumped into the pit first and urged the desert factions to follow, then Ye Qiubai and the others descended as well.
• The terracotta warriors attacked with spear strikes carrying God Emperor-level power, and Ye Qiubai urged the group to use coordinated, wide-area attacks.
• Jiu Bailu noticed the warriors stayed still outside their attack range, but the warriors they destroyed reassembled from dust almost immediately.
• Xiao Hei charged ahead as the others followed and attacked, while Huang Jun decided to move closer and interfere with their group.

Xiao Hei's alliance raced through the terracotta warrior pit while Huang Jun's group tried to catch up and interfere. As the Xuanming Holy Son's alliance also closed in, Jiu Bailu prepared to hold Huang Jun back so the others could keep advancing.

• Xiao Hei led his alliance through the terracotta warriors, using his resilience and rapid healing to take the front.
• Jiu Bailu warned that Huang Jun's group was approaching, and Ye Qiubai attacked them with his sword case and Sword Domain.
• The crown prince, Tan Zongzhao, and Jiu Bailu joined the attack, but Huang Jun unleashed Meridian-Breaking Sandstorm to block them and clear a path for his group.
• Tan Zongzhao noted that the Xuanming Holy Son's alliance was also advancing close behind, while Ye Qiubai asked Xiao Hei to cover his position.
• Jiu Bailu told the others to keep moving and stood under their protection, preparing to hold Huang Jun's group back despite the seal inside her body.

Jiu Bailu used the Power of Karma to wound Huang Jun and force his group to back down, then continued toward the door with the crown prince. Elsewhere, Shi Sheng and Fang Qiong realized their passage was looping and draining their Immortal Qi.

• Jiu Bailu’s golden pressure startled the others, and Huang Jun tried to recruit her as his bandit bride.
• Jiu Bailu pierced Huang Jun’s sandstorm barrier and wounded his left shoulder with a beam of karmic power.
• Jiu Bailu dared Huang Jun to attack again, and he ended the standoff and continued toward the door with his group.
• Jiu Bailu told the crown prince she was fine and privately suspected that the person who could undo her physique’s seal had appeared.
• Shi Sheng noticed that his group had been walking in circles, and Fang Qiong warned that the passage was draining their Immortal Qi.

Shi Sheng, Fang Qiong, and Tan Ning searched the looping tomb passage for a mechanism while Sha Yuansheng’s group conserved their strength and plotted to attack them later. Following the Star God Emperor’s advice, Shi Sheng used the Power of the Stars to detect movement, and a black stone shifted above them.

• Shi Sheng and Fang Qiong ignored the quarrel between the outside and desert factions and searched the passage for a way out.
• Tan Ning joined them, while Sha Yuansheng persuaded the Sand Sea Sect and other desert factions to conserve their strength and let the others search.
• The Star God Emperor advised Shi Sheng to use suppressive power to find a movable mechanism, warning him that it would consume Immortal Qi.
• Shi Sheng told Fang Qiong and Tan Ning his plan, and Fang Qiong began constructing formations while the others guarded the group.
• Shi Sheng released the Power of the Stars and detected a black stone shifting above them.

Shi Sheng triggered a mechanism that opened a hidden passage, awakening swarms of insect Devil Beasts that attacked everyone in the tomb. Fang Qiong and the others held them back until the way out opened, though more than thirty people were killed or injured.

• Shi Sheng pressed the pitch-black stone mechanism and caused the tomb passage to tremble as insect Devil Beasts rushed toward the group.
• Tan Ning called everyone to prepare for battle, and Sha Yuansheng's group joined forces with them against the approaching beetles.
• Shi Sheng told the others to hold off the beetles while he recovered, and Fang Qiong and Tan Ning took charge of the defense.
• The beetles devoured several peak God Emperor Realm experts, while Fang Qiong's combined formations blasted a dozen of the creatures apart.
• The group fought for the time needed for the hidden passage to open, then escaped after more than thirty people were killed or injured.

The group reached a burial chamber where Sha Yuansheng tried to force Shi Sheng to approach the chained coffin, but a mysterious woman in a red dress appeared atop it. She immobilized everyone and began extracting a prodigy’s soul, leaving the group facing a deadly threat.

• The group entered the burial chamber and found a huge chained coffin surrounded by statues of the four divine beasts and a sealed door beyond it.
• Sha Yuansheng argued that Shi Sheng should approach the coffin, then used his Ancestor Realm pressure to try to force him.
• Tan Ning stepped in to protect Shi Sheng, but most of the other factions sided with Sha Yuansheng’s plan.
• A woman in a red dress appeared atop the still-chained coffin and immobilized everyone as she descended the platform.
• The woman pierced a prodigy’s brow, drew out strands of his soul power, and tasted them.

The woman in red trapped everyone in the burial chamber with the power of rules and killed those who could not speak to her. Fang Qiong used the Primordial Array to weaken the restrictions and free most of the group, then left Sha Yuansheng trapped and urged the woman to kill him.

• The woman in red drained people's souls whenever her ten-breath countdown ended without anyone speaking, while Fang Qiong searched for a way to escape.
• Fang Qiong realized that the restrictions came from the power of rules and silently activated the Primordial Array.
• When the woman in red reached Fang Qiong, he spoke, evaded her fingertip, and deployed the Primordial Array to weaken the rules restraining the group.
• Tan Ning, Shi Sheng, and others broke free and gathered beside Fang Qiong, while Sha Yuansheng's group remained trapped.
• Fang Qiong reminded the woman in red of her game and pointed out that Sha Yuansheng had not escaped, so she should kill him.

Fang Qiong offered to help the red-dressed woman escape the tomb by making her his array spirit, then promised to break open her coffin once he grew strong enough. The woman began to take his proposal seriously, though she was shocked by the plan.

• The red-dressed woman absorbed Sha Yuansheng's soul and killed him while Fang Qiong and the others watched.
• The woman threatened to keep Fang Qiong in the tomb and used her Fear Dao Law to make Tan Ning collapse.
• Fang Qiong calmly told the woman he could take her out of the tomb, drawing laughter and then suspicion from her.
• The woman lifted Fang Qiong by the neck, but loosened her grip when he offered to let her soul leave the tomb first and break open her coffin in the future.
• Fang Qiong proposed using an array to make the red-dressed woman his array spirit, leaving her aghast.

Fang Qiong persuaded the woman in the red dress to become a formation spirit, offering her a chance to leave the tomb and eventually regain her body. As her immense divine soul power flooded into him, Fang Qiong endured agonizing strain while his allies guarded him.

• Fang Qiong explained that the Nightfall formation required fear Dao Law and proposed making the woman in the red dress its formation spirit.
• The woman in the red dress sensed Fang Qiong's Good Fortune Formation Spirit Physique and believed he could help her escape the tomb.
• Fang Qiong promised to help her reclaim her body in the future, and she agreed to become his formation spirit after a million years trapped in darkness.
• The woman in the red dress transferred her divine soul power into Fang Qiong, who circulated the Holy Array Prison Body Art and the Good Fortune Formation Spirit Physique to withstand it.
• Shi Sheng, Tan Ning, and the forces from Chaotic Spirit Academy and the Nine Dragons Divine Dynasty guarded Fang Qiong as the power threatened to tear his body apart.

Fang Qiong endured the woman in red’s Demigod Realm soul power and used it to advance his Holy Array Prison Body Art and cultivation. After making Lian Zhi the formation spirit of Nightfall, he left the burial chamber’s next steps to her.

• Fang Qiong used the Holy Array Prison Body Art to repair his shattered bones as the soul power repeatedly destroyed them, eventually reaching the Jade Bone level.
• Fang Qiong endured the soul power’s destruction of his five viscera and reached the fourth level of the Holy Array Prison Body Art, while his cultivation advanced to the Half-Step Ancestor Realm.
• Fang Qiong mastered Nightfall and made the woman in red its formation spirit, then unleashed darkness throughout the burial chamber.
• Lian Zhi praised Fang Qiong’s potential and agreed to guide him and the others through the tomb.

After surviving the terracotta army pit, Ye Qiubai discovered a sword that seemed bound to him by karma and began receiving its inheritance, which shattered his bones as a voice promised to reshape his Sword Bone. When Huang Jun and the Xuanming Holy Son arrived, they tried to interrupt him, and Xiao Hei prepared to fight them.

• Xiao Hei and his companions reached the black iron doors ahead of Huang Jun and the Xuanming Holy Son, then entered the burial chamber.
• Ye Qiubai became fixated on the sword above the throne, and Jiu Bailu told the others that an unbreakable karma connected him to it.
• Ye Qiubai grasped the sword, whose Sword Intent shattered the bones throughout his body as a voice promised to reshape his Sword Bone.
• Three days later, Huang Jun and the Xuanming Holy Son arrived and accused Xiao Hei's group of monopolizing the opportunity.
• The Xuanming Holy Son moved to interrupt Ye Qiubai, but Xiao Hei blocked him and challenged him to settle their fight from the banquet.

As Ye Qiubai endured the crushing pressure before the throne, Jiu Bailu and the others fought to keep Huang Jun and his allies from disturbing him. Xiao Hei struck the Xuanming Holy Son with the ninth-level Eternal Devil Body, but the Holy Son’s Xuanming Bloodline let him withstand the blow, and their fight continued.

• Ye Qiubai remained immobilized as his bones were crushed, while Jiu Bailu stepped forward to block Huang Jun and told the crown prince and Tan Zongzhao to guard against shockwaves.
• Tan Zongzhao and the crown prince retreated to protect Ye Qiubai, and Jiu Bailu fought Huang Jun as he charged at her.
• The Xuanming Holy Son attacked Xiao Hei, boasting that his Xuanming Bloodline and Black Tortoise defenses surpassed Xiao Hei’s powers.
• Xiao Hei unleashed the ninth level of the Eternal Devil Body and knocked the Xuanming Holy Son into the burial chamber wall with one punch.
• The Xuanming Holy Son rose with only minor injuries, and Xiao Hei taunted him before the Holy Son vowed that Xiao Hei would never break through his defenses again.

Xiao Hei fought the Xuanming Holy Son inside the Xuanming Domain, overcoming the Black Tortoise bloodline’s powerful defenses through relentless attacks. The Holy Son was left bloody and wounded, but gathered the domain’s black droplets to continue the fight.

• The Xuanming Holy Son covered himself in scales and a Black Tortoise shell, then attacked Xiao Hei with a wave of heavy water.
• Xiao Hei struck the Holy Son, whose armor dispersed the force, and Tan Zongzhao warned that ordinary attacks would have little effect.
• Xiao Hei activated Bloodline Entanglement and Bloodline Boiling, then battered the Holy Son with repeated blows that damaged his scales.
• The Holy Son finally spat blood and slammed into a wall, and Xiao Hei explained that even the strongest defense had a limit.
• The Xuanming Holy Son vowed to kill anyone who insulted the Black Tortoise Bloodline, then formed seals as the black droplets in his domain began to rampage.

The Xuanming Holy Son summoned the Black Tortoise to attack Xiao Hei, but Xiao Hei unleashed his holy devil bloodline and struck the beast with a devastating punch. The chapter ended as cracks spread across the Black Tortoise’s shell.

• The Xuanming Holy Son summoned the Black Tortoise, whose pressure forced the crown prince and Tan Zongzhao to shield Ye Qiubai.
• The Black Tortoise attacked Xiao Hei and sent him flying, while the Xuanming Holy Son mocked him and drew on his own bloodline to sustain the summon.
• Xiao Hei revealed the overwhelming power of his holy devil bloodline, causing the Xuanming Holy Son’s bloodline to tremble in fear.
• Xiao Hei combined his bloodline ability with his Eternal Devil Body and struck the Black Tortoise with Demon's Descent... Heaven Breaker.
• The Black Tortoise’s shell began cracking under Xiao Hei’s punch.

Xiao Hei defeated the Xuanming Holy Son, while Jiu Bailu subdued Huang Jun and his group. Ye Qiubai formed a Sword Bone while receiving the inheritance in the prince’s tomb, revealing a connection to the Azure Cloud Sword Master and drawing concern over the dangers awaiting him.

• Xiao Hei shattered the Black Tortoise shell and defeated the Xuanming Holy Son, who escaped the tomb using a life-preserving method.
• Jiu Bailu forced Huang Jun and his companions to surrender and ordered them to stay out of the fight.
• Ye Qiubai recovered enough to stand before the throne, and Jiu Bailu recognized that his Sword Bone had formed.
• Jiu Bailu and the others connected Ye Qiubai’s inheritance to the Azure Cloud Sword Master, whose legacy had been divided into four parts.
• Tan Zongzhao and the crown prince warned that sword cultivators would target Ye Qiubai, while Jiu Bailu sensed a fatal crisis entangled with his great karma.

Ye Qiubai completed forging his Sword Bone, learned that the Azure Cloud Sword Master intended to reincarnate through a soul merger, and gained the Cloud Azure Sword and an inheritance token. He and the others continued deeper into the tomb while forces outside reacted to the first casualties and the Xuanming Holy Son's escape.

• The Azure Cloud Sword Master told Ye Qiubai that his Sword Bone would draw hostile sword cultivators and that three more inheritances awaited him, then revealed that merging souls would allow the Azure Cloud Sword Master to be reborn.
• Ye Qiubai questioned the plan and refused to accept its outcome; after the phantom vanished, he completed his Sword Bone and surged to the half-step Ancestor realm.
• Ye Qiubai received the demigod-grade Cloud Azure Sword, and the throne transformed into an Azure Cloud token that could guide him to the remaining inheritances.
• Ye Qiubai thanked Jiu Bailu and the others, then followed Xiao Hei toward the tomb passage as Huang Jun decided to trail them and wait for a chance to strike.
• Outside the tomb, the Xuanming Holy Son escaped using a divine artifact, and the grand elder learned that He Song's soul tablet had shattered and ordered a report sent to the academy.