Recaps

Lu Changsheng left the library after one day, claiming he had learned all its puppetry books, and began crafting a puppet at the grand elder’s pavilion. He finished an elaborate puppet in half a day, leaving the Mo Clan observers stunned.

• Mo Hanlin and the elders doubted Lu Changsheng could master puppetry quickly, but Mo Yu said her master would surprise them.
• Lu Changsheng emerged from the library and said he had learned everything on the first floor, then asked for materials and a workspace to make a puppet.
• At the grand elder’s pavilion, Lu Changsheng selected Heaven-reaching Purple Sandalwood and completed the puppet’s outer body in the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Lu Changsheng added three kinds of Power of Rules and an array, then made the puppet a sword and a saber from the remaining wood.
• After half a day, Lu Changsheng finished the puppet and asked the speechless Mo Hanlin, the grand elder, and the others whether their jaws had come unhinged.

Lu Changsheng impressed the Mo Clan by revealing the intricate design and life intent inside his puppet, prompting the Grand Elder to ask to become his apprentice. Lu Changsheng departed with the Grand Elder and Mo Yu, leaving his first puppet with the Mo Clan.

• The Grand Elder examined Lu Changsheng’s puppet and learned that its widespread meridians circulated the intent of unending life through its body.
• The Grand Elder apologized to Lu Changsheng for doubting him, while Mo Hanlin agreed that Mo Yu could continue following her master.
• The Grand Elder asked to cultivate under Lu Changsheng, and Mo Hanlin granted permission for him to leave the Mo Clan.
• Lu Changsheng gave the puppet to Mo Hanlin and left the Mo Clan with the Grand Elder and Mo Yu.
• Mo Hanlin ordered the puppet placed in the inner pavilion and reserved for a crisis, seeing it as both a valuable gift and a way to strengthen the Mo Clan’s ties to Lu Changsheng.

Mo Hanlin decided the Mo Clan would yield its qualifier spot to Mo Yu’s senior brothers if they faced them, while the academy qualifier began in Heaven-Reaching City. Xiao Hei defeated Holy Light Academy’s first fighter, Lan Qing, and challenged the academy to send another opponent.

• Mo Ling recognized some of Mo Yu’s senior brothers in the portraits, and Mo Hanlin told the clan to give them the spot if they met in the qualifier.
• The four academies drew lots, pairing Chaotic Spirit Academy against Holy Light Academy and Mechanism Academy against Shuozhou Academy.
• Xiao Hei volunteered as Chaotic Spirit Academy’s first fighter, while Holy Light Academy sent out the sword cultivator Lan Qing.
• Xiao Hei shattered Lan Qing’s sword and broke his breastbone with a punch, knocking him out of the arena.
• Xiao Hei taunted Holy Light Academy to send another fighter as Mo Yu praised him and Lu Changsheng told her not to imitate his showboating.

Xiao Hei faced Yi Che of Holy Light Academy, whose Dao Law of Light could purify Devil Qi, but Xiao Hei’s Holy Devil Bloodline let him resist it. After their first clash, Yi Che summoned golden butterflies and prepared to continue the fight.

• Miao Youzhi sent Yi Che to defeat Xiao Hei and help wear Gu Sheng down for later bouts.
• Yi Che unleashed holy light that dispersed Xiao Hei’s Devil Qi and obscured his senses.
• Xiao Hei’s black-and-red blood Qi spread through the holy light, allowing him to find Yi Che and strike him with a powerful punch.
• Yi Che countered with a golden spear, but Xiao Hei’s punch forced him to retreat, and Xiao Hei’s wound quickly healed.
• Yi Che acknowledged Xiao Hei’s strength and raised golden butterflies around himself as the battle continued.

Xiao Hei fought Yi Che, whose golden butterflies let him shift his form and unleash devastating explosions. As Yi Che overwhelmed him with successive blasts, Xiao Hei used the Nine Heavens Devil Halberd to strike at him and kept pursuing him through the air.

• Yi Che warned Xiao Hei that he would use his full strength, while Xiao Hei summoned his Devil God phantom and faced him without surrendering.
• Yi Che detonated a golden butterfly, but Xiao Hei survived the blast and attacked him; Yi Che transformed into a butterfly and reappeared elsewhere, then detonated another butterfly beside Xiao Hei.
• Lu Changsheng explained that the butterflies were Yi Che’s interchangeable forms rather than evidence that he had used the Space Dao Law.
• Yi Che pointed out that thirty-two butterflies remained and set off five around Xiao Hei, engulfing the arena in an even greater explosion.
• Xiao Hei sheltered himself with the Devil God phantom and Demon God Armor, launched the Nine Heavens Devil Halberd at Yi Che, then pursued him with a kick after Yi Che evaded by switching places with a butterfly.

Xiao Hei defeated Yi Che despite being badly weakened by Golden Light Gathering and Shattering, then Gu Sheng stepped forward to face Gu Lin. Gu Lin revealed that he had fused the Dao Law of Light with the Sword Dao Law, and Gu Sheng prepared to answer with strength of his own.

• Xiao Hei used the Nine Heavens Devil Halberd to withstand Yi Che’s Golden Light Gathering and Shattering, then struck Yi Che and forced him to concede.
• Xiao Hei returned to Chaotic Spirit Academy to recover after the attack drained much of his bloodline power.
• Gu Lin challenged Gu Sheng, and Gu Sheng stopped Qin Chi from taking the fight.
• Gu Sheng entered the platform and taunted Gu Lin about losing to him two and a half years earlier.
• Gu Lin unleashed over a thousand golden swords and fused the Dao Law of Light with the Sword Dao Law to attack Gu Sheng’s astral wind.

Gu Sheng defeated Gu Lin and another peak ancestor realm cultivator from Holy Light Academy, but exhausted most of his strength in the process. As Miao Youzhi entered the arena, Gu Sheng stopped Qin Chi and assigned Mu Fusheng to face him.

• Gu Sheng used a relaxed, evasive style against Gu Lin before switching to fierce wind attacks and forcing him to the edge of the arena.
• Gu Sheng kept Gu Lin suppressed through a day-long battle and eventually defeated him.
• A second peak ancestor realm cultivator from Holy Light Academy took the stage and tried to wear down Gu Sheng by avoiding direct combat.
• Gu Sheng defeated his next opponent but left the arena with less than twenty percent of his strength remaining.
• Gu Sheng stopped Qin Chi from facing Miao Youzhi and told him that Mu Fusheng would take the match.

Mu Fusheng revealed his lightning mastery in his match against Miao Youzhi, matching him in speed and forcing him to summon his heavenly-god form. The chapter left them facing off as Mu Fusheng’s six kinds of lightning began to suppress Miao Youzhi’s holy light.

• Mu Fusheng entered the arena and told Miao Youzhi he had no need to wear him down before defeating him.
• Mu Fusheng and Miao Youzhi clashed at great speed, matching each other with lightning and holy light.
• Miao Youzhi recognized Mu Fusheng as a rival to Gu Sheng, while Gu Sheng noted that Mu Fusheng had not yet used his talismans or other known trump cards.
• Miao Youzhi summoned golden wings, a crown, and a scepter, claiming his Supreme Dao Law would overwhelm Mu Fusheng’s lightning.
• Mu Fusheng released six kinds of lightning, which resisted and began suppressing Miao Youzhi’s holy light.

Mu Fusheng used the six kinds of ancient divine lightning and the Nine-Cord Thunderclap Chain to overwhelm Miao Youzhi in their arena fight. After Miao Youzhi conceded, a vice dean rescued him before Mu Fusheng could land another blow, and Mu Fusheng defended his actions by citing his rule that only death or leaving the arena counted as defeat.

• Mu Fusheng’s thunder imbued with light, vitality, and destruction suppressed Miao Youzhi’s holy light, while Miao Youzhi tried to bind him with a shrinking ring of light.
• Miao Youzhi sent a storm of golden feathers at Mu Fusheng, who used the Nine-Cord Thunderclap Chain and Thunder Control Divine Talismans to repel them and crack Miao Youzhi’s holy light barrier.
• Mu Fusheng struck Miao Youzhi’s protective wings with the chain, shattering the barrier and sending Miao Youzhi crashing onto the arena floor, badly injured.
• Miao Youzhi demanded to know how Mu Fusheng had mastered Dao law so close to its origin, but Mu Fusheng pressed his attack instead of answering.
• Miao Youzhi conceded, but Mu Fusheng continued to lash at him until a vice dean of Holy Light Academy intervened and carried him off the arena.
• Mu Fusheng told the vice dean that his rules counted only death or leaving the arena as a loss, not conceding.

Mechanism Academy crushed Shuozhou Academy, leaving the other academies convinced it would win the qualifying spot. But when Chaotic Spirit Academy faced Mechanism Academy, Fang Qiong defeated Mo Le in under two minutes after Mo Le’s puppets appeared to hold back.

• Mechanism Academy defeated Shuozhou Academy with its puppets, alarming the other academies and making them doubt they could challenge the Mo Clan.
• Mo Yu considered drugging Mo Xing and the other Mo Clan disciples so Chaotic Spirit Academy could win, but Lu Changsheng called her plan dirty.
• Vice Dean Ming told Chaotic Spirit Academy’s competitors to stay calm and accept the result, while Mo Xing explained that the clan head had ordered the Mo Clan disciples to go easy on them.
• Chaotic Spirit Academy sent Fang Qiong to face Mo Le, who controlled nine late-stage Ancestor Realm puppets that seemed to deliberately miss their attacks.
• Fang Qiong formed the Annihilation Illusion Killing Formation, trapped Mo Le in its illusion, and knocked him out of the arena in less than two minutes.

Fang Qiong unexpectedly defeated Mo Le, and Mu Fusheng deduced that the Mo Clan was throwing the match at Mo Yu’s request. Mo Ling then deliberately botched his own fight against Fang Qiong, leaving the Chaotic Spirit Academy’s advance within reach.

• Fang Qiong’s Annihilation Illusion Killing Formation sent Mo Le out of the arena, leaving the spectators and competitors confused.
• Mu Fusheng concluded that Mo Yu had asked the Mo Clan to throw the match, and his companions agreed that it was the likeliest explanation.
• Mo Ling entered the arena with seventeen late-stage Ancestor Realm puppets, and spectators expected him to defeat Fang Qiong.
• Fang Qiong activated the Annihilation Illusion Killing Formation and prepared to withstand the puppets’ attack while Lian Zhi completed Nightfall.
• Mo Ling made his puppets collide with one another, destroying several of them and giving Fang Qiong room to escape.
• Mo Ling claimed he could not control his puppets well, conceded, and left the arena.

The Chaotic Spirit Academy secured the qualifier after the Mechanism Academy’s contestants openly conceded, ending the match in under two hours. As the academies departed, Mu Fusheng and his companions prepared to return to the Mortal Realm while Lu Changsheng took Mo Yu and the Mo Clan elder back with him.

• Lu Changsheng questioned Mo Yu about Mo Ling’s apparent incompetence, while Mo Ling denied deliberately throwing his match and Mo Xing told the Mechanism Academy students to follow the clan head’s wishes.
• Mo Xing conceded immediately, and the remaining Mechanism Academy contestants followed suit, giving the Chaotic Spirit Academy the qualifier victory in record time.
• The lord of Heaven-Reaching City handed Vice Dean Ming the qualification token, while the Moon Gazing Academy and Tranquil Mountain Academy abandoned plans to steal it.
• Jiu Bailu and Jiu Xuan traveled back with the Chaotic Spirit Academy, but Mu Fusheng declined to join its competition roster because the Azure Firmament Academy needed rebuilding.
• Lu Changsheng returned to the Mortal Realm with Mo Yu and the Mo Clan elder, intending to discuss the Chaos Realm academies’ strength with Hong Ying and the others.

After Chaotic Spirit Academy celebrated its victory, Mu Fusheng and the others planned to finish exploring its inheritances before returning to the Mortal Realm. Ye Qiubai, guided by the Azure Cloud Token, continued searching the Qingming Sea and joined a fishing crew, where he prepared to haul in demonic fish.

• The students and elders welcomed Chaotic Spirit Academy's victorious team, and the dean announced free access to inheritance secret realms for thirty days and rewards in seven days.
• Mu Fusheng and the others decided to stay at Chaotic Spirit Academy longer to explore its secret realms and formations before returning to Azure Firmament Academy.
• Fang Qiong contacted Ye Qiubai, who said he was on the Qingming Sea and would return before the Six Realms Academy Grand Competition.
• Ye Qiubai explained to the young woman aboard the ship that he was following the Azure Cloud Token's guidance across the sea.
• A burly crewman called Ye Qiubai to the fishing spot, where the crew prepared to haul in and process demonic fish.

Ye Qiubai and the crew hunted five Divine Lord Realm devil fish, but a far larger sea devil beast chased their ship as they headed back toward Jade Qilin City. Ai Song feared the pursuer was in the God Emperor Realm, leaving the crew facing near-certain death.

• Ai Song led ten God Lord Realm experts in killing five devil fish while the boatman maneuvered the ship around their attacks.
• Ye Qiubai and the others hauled the devil fish aboard and butchered them to preserve their valuable parts and cores.
• Ai Song ordered the crew to abandon the remaining carcasses and flee after Ye Qiubai noticed a huge shadow approaching behind the ship.
• Ai Song identified the approaching sea devil beast as likely being in the God Emperor Realm, and the crew despaired because their ship could not outrun it.

Ye Qiubai killed the pursuing God Emperor-grade Flood Dragon with one swing of his wooden sword, shocking Ai Zhi, Ai Song, and the ship’s crew. He ignored Ai Song’s apology and returned to his work before checking the Azure Cloud Token, which had moved farther into deeper waters.

• The God Emperor-grade Flood Dragon caught up with the ship, and Ai Zhi told Ye Qiubai she feared they would all die before she could fall for him.
• Ye Qiubai approached the Flood Dragon with a wooden sword, and Ai Zhi ran to warn him to retreat.
• Ye Qiubai split the Flood Dragon in two with a single sword swing, leaving everyone aboard astonished.
• Ai Song apologized and knelt before Ye Qiubai, who ignored him and returned to dissecting a devil fish.
• Ai Song took over the work and ordered the crew to retrieve the Flood Dragon’s carcass and prepare its materials for Ye Qiubai.
• Ye Qiubai saw that the Azure Cloud Token had moved into deeper waters, then heard someone outside ask to come in.

After reaching Jade Qilin City, Ye Qiubai joined the Ai Clan and asked for help finding an artifact refiner capable of making an Ancestor Realm seagoing ship. Ai Shouxian sent Ai Zhi to guide him to a possible candidate, while privately hoping the two would grow closer.

• Ai Zhi asked Ye Qiubai why he had tolerated Ai Song's earlier treatment, and Ye Qiubai told her he had not taken it to heart.
• Ye Qiubai agreed to return to the Ai Clan with Ai Zhi so he could ask about finding a better seagoing ship.
• When the ship reached Jade Qilin City, Ai Song apologized to Ye Qiubai, and Ye Qiubai told him he preferred his former unruly attitude.
• Ai Shouxian welcomed Ye Qiubai, thanked him for saving Ai Zhi, and learned that he wanted an Ancestor Realm seagoing ship.
• Ai Shouxian said a possible ship artifact refiner lived outside the city and asked Ai Zhi to take Ye Qiubai there.
• After Ye Qiubai and Ai Zhi left, Ai Shouxian told the elders he hoped they might grow close and that the experience could help Ai Zhi mature.

Ye Qiubai sought Mo Xun’s help building a vessel capable of reaching a dangerous region deep in the Qingming Sea. Mo Xun warned him about the Divine Realm Qingming Beast there, but Ye Qiubai offered to supply whatever materials Mo Xun needed, leaving the craftsman interested in his proposal.

• Ai Zhi brought Ye Qiubai to Mo Xun’s pavilion, but Mo Xun angrily turned them away for arriving without notice.
• Ye Qiubai identified Mo Xun as a member of the Mo Clan, prompting Mo Xun to invite him inside and then dismiss him after learning they had merely met the clan.
• Ye Qiubai told Mo Xun that he needed a seagoing vessel capable of reaching a location deep in the Qingming Sea and withstanding its waves and Devil Beasts.
• Mo Xun said the journey required at least an upper-grade demigod vessel and warned that a Divine Realm Qingming Beast ruled that region.
• Ye Qiubai insisted that Mo Xun build the vessel and offered to obtain any materials he required.

Ye Qiubai persuaded Mo Xun to consider building his seagoing ship if he could gather a list of rare materials. After returning to the Ai Clan, he learned that the four circled materials were extraordinarily difficult to obtain, including some beyond what an Ancestor Realm ship required.

• Ye Qiubai agreed to gather every material Mo Xun listed, and Mo Xun agreed in principle to build the ship if he brought them.
• Outside Mo Xun's pavilion, Ye Qiubai encountered Ai Zhi arguing with Dai Heng, her intended marriage partner, and left with her when Dai Heng challenged him.
• Dai Heng visited Mo Xun after Ye Qiubai left, but Mo Xun refused to receive him because he had already met a visitor.
• Ye Qiubai showed Mo Xun's materials list to Ai Shouxian and the Ai Clan elders, who said the four circled materials would be extremely difficult to obtain.

Ye Qiubai learned that the Dai Clan possessed the primordial beginning metal he needed and agreed to meet them with Ai Shouxian. As Ai Shouxian reconsidered the marriage alliance meant to strengthen the Ai Clan, he asked Ye Qiubai for help at the Dai Clan’s main hall.

• Ai Shouxian told Ye Qiubai that the Dai Clan planned to use its primordial beginning metal to forge a weapon for Dai Heng, and promised that the Ai Clan would secure the other materials.
• Ye Qiubai cultivated for two days, drawing wisps of Sword Dao Origin from the Azure Cloud Sword into his Sword Bone and nearing the Mid-Stage Ancestor Realm.
• Ai Shouxian led Ye Qiubai and Ai Zhi toward the Dai Clan, where Ai Zhi explained that her family’s decline had led to her marriage alliance with Dai Heng.
• Ye Qiubai urged Ai Zhi to cultivate her own strength rather than rely on a marriage alliance, and Ai Shouxian asked him to guide her.
• At the Dai Clan’s main hall, the Dai Clan head pressed Ai Shouxian to announce the marriage alliance, and Ai Shouxian privately asked Ye Qiubai for help.

Ye Qiubai supported Ai Shouxian as he rejected the Dai Clan’s marriage alliance, prompting the Dai Clan to declare war and cripple the Ai Clan’s finances. With the Ai Clan preparing to harvest resources from the Qingming Sea, Ye Qiubai volunteered to join them and search for changes in the Azure Cloud Token’s presence.

• Ai Shouxian rejected the marriage alliance after Ye Qiubai agreed to support the Ai Clan, and Ai Zhi backed his decision.
• The Dai Clan’s patriarch threatened the Ai Clan and declared war after Ai Shouxian refused to submit; Ye Qiubai also failed to obtain the Primordial Beginning Metal because he would not join the Dai Clan.
• The Dai Clan and its allies cut off trade with the Ai Clan, leaving its shops deserted and its resources dwindling.
• Ai Shouxian ordered the Ai Clan to send out all three seafaring vessels to harvest resources from the Qingming Sea, and Ye Qiubai volunteered to go with them.

With the Ai Clan facing a resource crisis, Ye Qiubai joined its expedition to the Qingming Sea and confronted a Dai Clan ship that tried to seize their harvest. He destroyed the Dai Clan ship’s cannons and forced it to retreat, leaving the naval battle unresolved.

• The Ai Clan sent its ships to harvest resources in the Qingming Sea, with Ye Qiubai aboard its sole God Emperor-grade ship alongside Ai Zhi and an elder.
• After the Ai Clan gathered sea Devil Beasts, a Dai Clan ship demanded its resources and threatened to destroy its ship.
• The Ai Clan elder ordered both sides to prepare for battle, but Ye Qiubai stepped forward and activated his Sword Domain.
• The Dai Clan fired enormous fireballs, which Ye Qiubai’s eighteen swords pierced and detonated.
• Ye Qiubai’s swords cut apart the Dai Clan ship’s cannons, prompting its grand elder to order a retreat.

Ye Qiubai destroyed the Dai Clan’s ship with his sixth sword, killing its grand elder and leaving the survivors to be devoured by sea Devil Beasts. The blood drew more beasts to the Ai Clan’s ship, where Ye Qiubai began defending the crew and harvesting the creatures for resources.

• Ye Qiubai told the Ai Clan’s ship to follow the fleeing Dai Clan ship while he prepared to attack.
• Ye Qiubai unleashed the Three Origins Transforming into Purity Sword, fused its three slashes, and split the Dai Clan’s ship and grand elder in two.
• The sinking ship spilled blood into the sea, attracting sea Devil Beasts that tore apart the Dai Clan members who fell into the water.
• The Ai Clan elder ordered the crew to leave, but Ye Qiubai saw that sea Devil Beasts had already surrounded their ship.
• Six Divine Lord-level sea Devil Beasts attacked the Ai Clan’s ship, and Ye Qiubai killed them with the Geng Metal Sword Case.
• Ye Qiubai dragged the beasts’ corpses aboard and ordered the Ai Clan crew, including the elder, to dissect them.

Ai Shouxian learned that Ye Qiubai’s voyage had brought the Ai Clan a huge haul and dealt a major blow to the Dai Clan, so he killed two guest elders who planned to defect and secretly used the resources to strengthen the clan. Meanwhile, Ye Qiubai asked Mo Xun for leads on rare materials, just as Dai Heng arrived seeking an audience with him.

• Ai Zhi returned with resources from twenty-one God Emperor-level sea Devil Beasts and many other beasts, and reported that the Dai Clan’s grand elder and a God Emperor-level seagoing ship had been destroyed.
• Two Ai Clan guest elders tried to leave and exploit the news, but Ai Shouxian had them killed and made everyone swear a Heavenly Dao Oath of secrecy.
• Ai Shouxian used the resources to recruit powerful cultivators, while the Dai Clan learned of the Ai Clan’s growing strength and tried to recruit the remaining candidates.
• Dai Heng told the Dai Clan patriarch that Mo Xun had refused to meet him, and the patriarch ordered him to try again.
• Ye Qiubai asked Mo Xun for leads on three rare materials, and Dai Heng arrived at Mo Xun’s loft requesting an audience.

Ye Qiubai persuaded Mo Xun to abandon the Dai Clan’s commission and used the prospect of a truce to negotiate for the Primordial Beginning Metal. The chapter ended with Mo Xun examining the Azure Cloud Sword and reacting with fear at its power.

• Mo Xun let Dai Heng into the room after Ye Qiubai pointed out that the Dai Clan had Primordial Beginning Metal.
• Ye Qiubai asked Dai Heng for the metal, but Dai Heng refused unless Ye Qiubai joined the Dai Clan as a guest elder.
• Mo Xun agreed to return the Dai Clan’s payment, choosing the challenge of building Ye Qiubai’s seagoing ship instead.
• Ye Qiubai urged Dai Heng to tell his father that the Dai Clan should call a truce with the Ai Clan and hand over the metal in exchange for Mo Xun forging a weapon and avoiding further costs.
• After Dai Heng left, Ye Qiubai offered Mo Xun three days to study the Azure Cloud Sword, and Mo Xun trembled when he realized he could not discern its grade.

Ye Qiubai’s proposal persuaded the Dai Clan to end its conflict with the Ai Clan and pursue cooperation instead. After teaching Ai Zhi sword cultivation for five days, Ye Qiubai prepared to leave with the Azure Cloud Sword returned by Mo Xun.

• Dai Heng reported his meeting with Ye Qiubai to the Dai Clan, and the clan head and elders decided that continuing the war would cost too much and expose them to the City Lord's Manor and two supreme experts.
• The Dai Clan head sent Dai Heng to the Ai Clan with the Primordial Beginning Metal and additional resources to show goodwill and begin reconciliation.
• News spread that the Dai Clan and Ai Clan planned to cooperate in developing the Qingming Sea.
• Ai Zhi gave Ye Qiubai the Primordial Beginning Metal and reported that half of his needed materials had been gathered, then asked to study swordsmanship with him before he left.
• Ye Qiubai taught Ai Zhi sword cultivation for five days, and Mo Xun returned the Azure Cloud Sword as Ye Qiubai prepared to depart.