Recaps

Qin Tiannan and the Southern Region’s other powerful figures discovered an ancient secret realm beyond a barrier in space, but a mysterious voice declared them unqualified to enter. They withdrew and decided to invite the other regions to join them, while an illusory soul inside the ruins worried that this generation was too weak for the Heavenly Road.

• Qin Tiannan and the others entered the other side of space aboard a specially prepared ship and found an ancient secret realm filled with ruins and remains.
• A puppet sent by a sinister-looking old man was crushed by an invisible pressure before it could pass through the barrier.
• A mysterious voice judged the group too weak and lacking in talent to pass the secret realm’s first trial, and ordered them to leave.
• Qin Tiannan persuaded the others to join forces with the other regions rather than abandon the opportunity entirely.
• An illusory soul in the ruins wondered whether this generation could campaign along the Heavenly Road and said time was running short.
• News spread across the continent that ancient ruins had appeared in the Southern Region’s desert and that powers from all sides were invited to seek their opportunities.

Ning Chenxin climbed Buddha Mountain to seek answers and defeated the Buddhist Sect’s Eighteen Arhats after they tried to stop him. He continued ascending the mountain while Ning Ming and the others watched in shock.

• Major factions agreed to send experts to challenge the secret realm’s first barrier, while Qin Tiannan warned them not to forcibly break open the space.
• A Buddhist Sect disciple reported that Ning Chenxin had injured disciples on Buddha Mountain, and the great Buddhas ordered the Eighteen Arhats to subdue him.
• Ning Chenxin reached the eight hundredth step, where the Eighteen Arhats confronted him and attacked with their grand formation.
• Ning Chenxin used the Soldier and Fight character seals to empower a heavenly soldier, which destroyed the grand formation and gravely injured the Eighteen Arhats.
• Ning Chenxin continued walking up Buddha Mountain as Ning Ming and the others watched from below.

Ning Chenxin confronted a Blue-Robed Bodhisattva on the final step to the Buddhist Sect, challenged the sect’s sincerity, and fought him with a heavenly soldier summoned from the Dao Scripture. A Gold-Robed Bodhisattva intervened and dissolved the soldier, revealing his Half-Step Void God strength.

• Ning Chenxin defeated the Eighteen Arhats and continued up the Buddhist Sect’s staircase until only the final step remained.
• A Blue-Robed Bodhisattva appeared, told Ning Chenxin to stop, and argued that his heart lacked sincerity.
• Ning Chenxin questioned the sect’s staircase, its collection of the Power of Faith, and its efforts to obstruct him, prompting the Bodhisattva to send Ning Ming and the others away.
• The Blue-Robed Bodhisattva dropped his benevolent facade and threatened Ning Chenxin, who answered by summoning a heavenly soldier from the Dao Scripture.
• The Blue-Robed Bodhisattva summoned an Asura phantom, but Ning Chenxin empowered the heavenly soldier and pressed the attack.
• A Gold-Robed Bodhisattva arrived and dissolved the heavenly soldier with Buddhist light; Ning Chenxin recognized that the newcomer had Half-Step Void God strength.

Ning Chenxin fought the Buddhist Sect’s bodhisattvas but was overwhelmed by their combined attacks. His master’s jade pendant saved him with a sword formation, then shattered and summoned a powerful projection that confronted the attackers.

• Ning Chenxin used the Dao Scripture to resist a gold-robed bodhisattva’s Buddhist light and a blue-robed bodhisattva’s asura phantom.
• Two more gold-robed bodhisattvas and four blue-robed bodhisattvas joined the attack, suppressing Ning Chenxin with their combined power.
• Ning Chenxin’s jade pendant released a sword formation that shattered the attacks and wounded the blue-robed bodhisattvas.
• A gold-robed bodhisattva ordered the others to attack again, but the jade pendant shattered and released a terrifying presence across Buddha Mountain.
• Ning Chenxin’s master appeared as a projection and asked who wanted to kill his disciple.

Lu Changsheng arrived at Buddha Mountain to protect Ning Chenxin after the Buddhist Sect’s bodhisattvas attacked him. He killed one bodhisattva and demanded that everyone who had attacked his disciple kill themselves, leaving the six elders to answer.

• Ning Ming, the people with him, and others in Buddha City felt an overwhelming presence descend on Buddha Mountain.
• The six elders of the Buddhist Sect sensed the presence and hurried to the top of the mountain.
• Ning Chenxin greeted Lu Changsheng as his master, and Lu Changsheng demanded to know what the bodhisattvas had planned to do to his disciple.
• Lu Changsheng killed a golden-robed bodhisattva with a Sword of Rules after the bodhisattvas defended their attack on Ning Chenxin.
• The six elders arrived and asked Lu Changsheng to show mercy, but he said the bodhisattvas who attacked Ning Chenxin had to kill themselves.

Lu Changsheng rejected the Buddhist Sect elders’ offer and killed the bodhisattvas who had attacked Ning Chenxin, then shattered their grand array and Thousand-Handed Great Buddha. As he prepared to strike down the wounded elders, a familiar figure appeared and asked him to stop.

• Lu Changsheng refused to forgive the bodhisattvas unless they took their own lives, then trapped everyone in an array when the elders rejected his demand.
• The six Void God elders used the Buddhist Sect Lion’s Roar to block Lu Changsheng’s Swords of Rules, but he killed the five blue-robed bodhisattvas.
• The elders activated the Buddhist Sect Grand Array and urged Lu Changsheng to leave, while Ning Chenxin worried that his master might be harmed.
• Lu Changsheng used Swords of Rules to kill the remaining golden-robed bodhisattvas despite the grand array.
• The six elders summoned the Thousand-Handed Great Buddha, but Lu Changsheng cut it apart with a branch and broke the grand array, leaving the elders badly injured.
• Lu Changsheng prepared to strike the elders again, but a familiar figure appeared and asked him to stay his hand.

Ning Chenxin ended his confrontation with the Buddhist Sect after Fayuan pleaded for it, though the sect had to answer for the deaths and destruction it caused. Back at the Cottage, Ning Chenxin questioned whether his path of seeking peace among mortals had any real purpose.

• Fayuan recognized Ning Chenxin and asked him to explain why he had come to the Buddhist Sect.
• After hearing Ning Chenxin’s account, Fayuan condemned the six elders for allowing the sect’s corruption and asked Ning Chenxin to spare it because a great era was approaching.
• Ning Chenxin asked Fayuan about the great era and the Buddhist Sect’s task, then agreed to end the affair after considering the damage the sect had already suffered.
• Lu Changsheng warned the Buddhist Sect not to target Ning Chenxin again, then took his disciple and left.
• Fayuan told the six elders that Lu Changsheng’s projection had nearly destroyed the sect and warned that its methods of collecting Power of Faith could lead to its ruin.
• Back at the Cottage, Ning Chenxin asked Lu Changsheng whether his path was wrong, and Lu Changsheng told him to follow his clear conscience.

Lu Changsheng discovered that Mu Ziqing’s Frost Spiritual Vein Physique contained a Frost Sword Spirit that threatened to destroy her dantian. Ye Qiubai prepared to absorb it into his Dark Demon Sword, leaving the dangerous transfer about to begin.

• Mu Wan'er showed Lu Changsheng a pill that stabilized Spiritual Qi by making it triangular, and Hong Ying praised her talent.
• Ye Qiubai brought Mu Ziqing from the Hidden Dao Academy Main Academy to Lu Changsheng for help with her physique.
• Lu Changsheng sensed icy meridians and frozen Spiritual Qi in Mu Ziqing’s dantian, where a Sword Spirit erupted with ice-blue Sword Intent.
• Hong Ying identified it as a Sword Spirit, and the willow tree explained that it had become a Frost Sword Spirit and could destroy Mu Ziqing’s dantian.
• The willow tree advised Ye Qiubai to absorb the Frost Sword Spirit into his sword, so he readied the Dark Demon Sword as the Sword Spirit began to rampage.

Ye Qiubai endured the frost Sword Spirit’s attack as he drew it into the Dark Demon Sword, while Lu Changsheng began preparing a pill to help Mu Ziqing integrate with her Frost Spiritual Vein. After two hours, the Sword Spirit submitted and transformed the Dark Demon Sword into a Spirit Artifact.

• Ye Qiubai used his Sword Intent to draw the struggling frost Sword Spirit toward the Dark Demon Sword while the willow tree restrained it.
• The frost Sword Spirit’s chilling power covered Ye Qiubai in frost and caused Mu Ziqing to tremble, as Mu Wan'er worried and Hong Ying reassured her.
• Lu Changsheng recognized that Mu Ziqing needed to integrate with her Frost Spiritual Vein and went to refine a suitable pill.
• Ye Qiubai endured the frost Sword Spirit’s attacks and used his Sword Domain to weaken it as the Spirit entered the Dark Demon Sword.
• After two hours, the frost Sword Spirit stopped resisting and fully integrated, raising the Dark Demon Sword from a peak Heaven Rank Treasure Artifact to a Spirit Artifact.

Ye Qiubai received an improvised pill from Lu Changsheng to cure Mu Ziqing’s Frost Spiritual Vein, and she successfully absorbed it and reached the mid-stage Qianyuan Realm. The group’s meal plans ended with Xiao Hei serving burnt food that even Ning Chenxin could not stomach.

• Ye Qiubai discovered that the Dark Demon Sword had grown stronger after absorbing the Frost Sword Spirit, and Willow Tree provided the Ice Soul Pill formula to treat Mu Ziqing.
• Lu Changsheng revealed that he had independently refined a pill with effects similar to the Ice Soul Pill, despite lacking its formula.
• Ye Qiubai gave Lu Changsheng’s pill to Mu Ziqing, who absorbed it and broke through to the mid-stage Qianyuan Realm as her Frost Spiritual Vein came under control.
• Lu Changsheng told Ye Qiubai to cook and asked Hong Ying to make fish soup, but Xiao Hei emerged from the kitchen with blackened dishes he claimed to have succeeded in making.
• Ning Chenxin tried one of Xiao Hei’s dishes and lost his appetite.

Qin Tiannan led Lu Changsheng’s five disciples to the ancient secret realm in the Southern Region’s desert, while Lu Changsheng stayed behind. Beyond the Wilderness Realm, a powerful faction planned to investigate Lu Changsheng through Ye Qiubai and prepare for a divine object’s imminent emergence.

• The chapter described the opening of an ancient secret realm in the Southern Region’s desert and the arrival of prominent prodigies, including Murong Ce, Li You, and a Buddhist disciple.
• Lu Changsheng tried to hide from Qin Tiannan, but emerged after learning Qin Tiannan had come to see his disciples.
• Qin Tiannan invited Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Xiao Hei, and Mu Wan'er to enter the secret realm, and all five agreed to go.
• Lu Changsheng saw the five leave with Qin Tiannan, then settled back into his chair and fell asleep.
• At the Heavenly Road, a faction discussed its covert agents’ failure to identify Lu Changsheng and decided to investigate him through Ye Qiubai.
• The faction revealed that Bai Yunhe had already been sent to the Primordial Wilderness Realm and warned that a divine object there was nearing its emergence.

Ye Qiubai and his companions entered the ancient secret realm with the gathered forces, while a black-robed figure watched Ye Qiubai with hatred. Inside, Hong Ying recognized the realm as a cultivation ground left by the Grand Preceptor and identified its powerful array.

• Qin Tiannan warned Ye Qiubai and the others to prioritize their safety in the unexplored secret realm.
• Liang Feng challenged Ye Qiubai to compete for an inheritance, and Ye Qiubai agreed.
• Ning Chenxin told Hong Ying that he had once stormed the Buddhist Sect, while Mu Wan'er reunited with her father, Mu Heze.
• The gathered leaders opened a spatial tunnel, and cultivators entered the secret realm; many who failed to meet its requirements were shredded by the barrier.
• A black-robed figure watched Ye Qiubai enter the secret realm with profound hatred.
• Hong Ying recognized the realm's Ancient Spirit Gathering Array and said the land had been the Cloud Phoenix Empire's cultivation ground.

Hong Ying led Ye Qiubai, Mu Wan'er, Ning Chenxin, and Xiao Hei through the Cloud Phoenix Empire’s ruined legacy realm, where they passed over lesser inheritances and found an alchemy grandmaster’s hall suited to Mu Wan'er. Li You and other cultivators arrived to claim it, and Li You swayed onlookers into surrounding Ye Qiubai’s group.

• Ye Qiubai explained that Hong Ying had been the Cloud Phoenix Empire’s empress in her previous life, and she led the group through the war-scarred realm.
• The group passed legacy halls guarded by increasingly powerful puppets, while Hong Ying recalled the Yang Flame Sword Ancestor’s legacy and Ye Qiubai declined to pursue it.
• Hong Ying identified an alchemy grandmaster’s hall and suggested that Mu Wan'er claim its inheritance; Mu Wan'er agreed.
• Li You arrived with collaborators and proposed sharing the legacy, but Ye Qiubai said the group would keep it for Mu Wan'er.
• Li You stirred the crowd’s emotions, drawing several onlookers to his side as they surrounded Ye Qiubai and his companions.

Ye Qiubai fought Li You and more than twenty Water Overflow Realm cultivators alone, overcoming their attacks with his sword techniques and Sword Domain. Li You vanished after detonating his ghost god phantom, while Ye Qiubai remained unharmed and did not pursue him.

• Ye Qiubai stepped forward to face Li You’s group alone, while Ning Chenxin pondered the violence of the cultivation world.
• Li You summoned ghosts with his banner as his followers charged, but Ye Qiubai’s first sword strike killed one opponent and destroyed nearly half the ghosts.
• A spectator revealed Ye Qiubai’s accomplishments, alarming Li You and his followers as Ye Qiubai unleashed Demon’s Descent and slew those advancing behind Li You.
• Li You used his bloodline power to summon a ghost god phantom, which clashed with Ye Qiubai’s black sword as Ye Qiubai raised his Sword Domain.
• Li You ordered the ghost god phantom to explode, but Ye Qiubai contained the blast within his Sword Domain; Li You disappeared, and Ye Qiubai put away his sword without giving chase.

Li You fled after his costly clash with Ye Qiubai, while Mu Wan'er entered the Cloud Phoenix Empire's inheritance hall under Hong Ying's protection. Elsewhere, a black-robed man accepted a demonic inheritance from a voice in a coffin, only for the voice to seize him and drag him inside.

• Li You fled and decided not to provoke Ye Qiubai after realizing how strong he was.
• Hong Ying showed the golden-armored puppet her decree, and it bowed to her.
• Mu Wan'er entered the inheritance hall while Ye Qiubai and the others continued deeper into the ruins.
• A black-robed man followed a mysterious presence into a demonic hall and found a coffin inside a bone array.
• The voice in the coffin persuaded the black-robed man to remove the array's four focal bones and accept its demonic cultivation technique.
• After the black-robed man cultivated for a day, black gas seized him and dragged him into the coffin.

The black hall’s master possessed the black-robed man and left with the coffin on his back. At a Sword Saint’s inheritance ruin, Ye Qiubai joined Liang Feng and the others against two golden-armored puppets while Murong Ce prepared an array.

• The black hall’s master rose from the coffin, possessed the black-robed man, and promised to handle the man’s affairs before carrying the coffin out of the hall.
• Ye Qiubai met Liang Feng at a Sword Saint’s inheritance ruin, where they also found Murong Ce and a group of cultivators.
• Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, and Xiao Hei left to explore while Ye Qiubai agreed to join Liang Feng.
• Murong Ce began forming a Li Fire Array as the two golden-armored puppets charged at him.
• Liang Feng struck one puppet, while Ye Qiubai’s wooden sword slash forced the other back and cracked its shoulder.

Ye Qiubai used the Dark Demon Sword and its frost power to drive back two golden-armored puppets, while Murong Ce completed the Li Fire Array. The group combined their attacks to disable the puppets beside the ruins’ great hall.

• Liang Feng struggled to slow a golden-armored puppet, so Ye Qiubai used his Sword Domain to help him.
• Ye Qiubai summoned the Dark Demon Sword and unleashed Demon’s Descent, freezing the space and forcing both golden-armored puppets back.
• Murong Ce completed the Li Fire Array and called for everyone to attack together.
• Liang Feng, Ye Qiubai, and the others attacked the puppets with the array’s Li Fire and their sword techniques until the puppets fell silent.

After defeating the golden-armored puppets, Ye Qiubai and the others entered the Sword Saint’s great hall and faced four barriers infused with different artistic conceptions. Liang Feng and Murong Ce passed through the fire barrier, while everyone watched Ye Qiubai prepare to test the wood barrier.

• Ye Qiubai received credit for defeating the golden-armored puppets, leaving Murong Ce impressed and Liang Feng frustrated by the growing gap between them.
• The group entered the great hall and found four passageways guarded by barriers embodying flame, ice, wood, and wind artistic conceptions.
• Ye Qiubai chose the wood barrier, Liang Feng chose fire, and Murong Ce joined him there.
• The barriers attacked those who tried to pass, injuring some and allowing others through after they endured the trial.
• Liang Feng passed through the fire barrier using a sword barrier, and Murong Ce followed with a flame defensive array.
• The crowd turned to watch Ye Qiubai approach the wood-intent barrier.

Ye Qiubai overcame a regenerating sword formation by merging his life-sustaining intent into his Sword Domain, breaking through to the middle-stage Water Overflow Realm. He entered the third trial and faced a wooden figure whose swordsmanship closely matched his own.

• Ye Qiubai passed through the wood-intent barrier with ease using his intent of unending life.
• He entered a forest where branches transformed into wooden swords and repeatedly regenerated after his attacks.
• Ye Qiubai realized brute force would not break the sword formation and merged his intent of unending life into his Sword Domain.
• His transformed Sword Domain overwhelmed the forest and broke the formation, after which he consolidated his insight and reached the middle-stage Water Overflow Realm.
• Ye Qiubai entered a plaza and fought a wooden figure that mirrored his sword techniques and strength.
• Ye Qiubai recognized the figure as a counterpart to himself and decided to use the fight to hone his sword Dao.

Ye Qiubai fought a wooden figure that perfectly replicated his swordsmanship and Sword Domain, then found a way to refine his Domain and defeat it with the Primordial Sword Scripture. The wooden figure’s defeat left Ye Qiubai astonished at the Scripture’s extraordinary rank.

• Ye Qiubai exchanged attacks with a wooden figure that matched his strength, speed, Sword Intent, and techniques, while its Spiritual Qi did not run out.
• Ye Qiubai released his Sword Domain, and the wooden figure created an identical one; their rivers of Sword Intent collided.
• Ye Qiubai learned to contain the violent Sword Intent in his river, reducing its drain and sharpening its power until it suppressed the wooden figure’s Domain.
• Ye Qiubai shattered the wooden figure’s giant sword and Sword Domain, then attacked with the Primordial Sword Scripture’s Pacify Mountains and Rivers.
• The wooden figure could not reproduce the Scripture’s power, and Ye Qiubai’s strike broke its wooden sword and smashed it into the wall, leaving it motionless.
• Ye Qiubai realized the Primordial Sword Scripture exceeded the wooden figure’s ability to replicate, though he did not know that the ancient era likely had not possessed it.

Ye Qiubai, Liang Feng, and Murong Ce reached the inheritance of the Four Absolutes Sword Array, which required comprehending five conceptions. Ye Qiubai entered the celestial person state and mastered wind conception, leaving fire concept as his next focus.

• Ye Qiubai passed the wooden puppet trial and found a cliff surrounded by fire, wood, ice, and wind, whose conceptions formed a powerful sword array.
• Liang Feng and Murong Ce arrived, and the inheritance's illusory soul revealed that the Four Absolutes Sword Array required comprehending five conceptions, including sword intent.
• Ye Qiubai began studying wind conception while Liang Feng and Murong Ce separately focused on ice artistic conception and wood intent.
• Ye Qiubai entered the celestial person state and realized how wind could make a sword faster and sharper.
• Ye Qiubai comprehended wind conception and pierced a massive boulder with a swift, sharp strike; he then turned his attention to fire concept.

Xiao Hei reached the inheritance trial in a magma-filled purgatory and competed with a tall body cultivator to destroy its magma beasts. As the beasts’ magma tempered their bodies, Xiao Hei’s battle frenzy intensified, and he tore apart an enormous beast with his bare hands.

• Xiao Hei and the tall man entered the purgatory trial, where countless magma beasts emerged from the ground.
• Xiao Hei and the tall man agreed to compete and attacked the beasts using only their physical strength.
• Xiao Hei shattered magma beasts with his fists and absorbed their magma, which tempered his body while the tall man struggled through the pain.
• Xiao Hei’s battle frenzy grew as flame patterns appeared on his body, and he drove deeper into the horde.
• A much larger magma beast charged Xiao Hei, who knocked it down, pinned its head, and tore it apart with his bare hands.
• The tall man watched Xiao Hei’s feat in astonishment and wondered who had trained him.

Xiao Hei defeated the giant lava beast in Boundless Purgatory and completed the first level of the Eternal Devil Body. A lava throne rose before him, bearing the lifeless body of a tall, imposing man.

• All the lava beasts merged into a hundred-foot lava beast, which charged at Xiao Hei.
• Xiao Hei met the lava beast in repeated collisions, steadily overpowering it as the tall man watched.
• The lava beast grew terrified and retreated, but Xiao Hei broke its horn with a punch, ending the trial.
• After two hours of tempering, Xiao Hei fully mastered the first level of the Eternal Devil Body.
• A throne formed from lava rose before Xiao Hei with a lifeless tall man seated upon it.

Xiao Hei resisted the throne-seated man's crushing pressure until a mysterious armored figure formed from his Demonic Qi and intervened. The man passed his inheritance to the tall man instead, while Hong Ying reached a bamboo house deep in the secret realm.

• Xiao Hei charged the man on the throne, who held him down with increasing pressure as Xiao Hei refused to kneel for four hours.
• Xiao Hei's Demonic Qi formed an armored figure that confronted the man on the throne and warned him against demanding submission.
• The man on the throne explained that he had only wanted to test Xiao Hei, then asked the armored figure for time to pass on his inheritance.
• The armored figure returned to Xiao Hei, who woke from his demonic state without knowing what had happened.
• The man on the throne passed his inheritance to the tall man, then dissipated, while Hong Ying reached a bamboo house in the secret realm.

Hong Ying met the Grand State Preceptor at his bamboo house and discussed her plan to campaign on the Heavenly Road again, despite the weakness of the current era. The Grand State Preceptor watched four promising cultivators in inheritance ruins, while Hong Ying explained how her master, Lu Changsheng, had given her confidence.

• Hong Ying visited the Grand State Preceptor, who said he had prepared a secret realm for a future campaign on the Heavenly Road.
• The Grand State Preceptor showed Hong Ying four screens depicting Ye Qiubai, Ning Chenxin, Xiao Hei, and Mu Wan'er in inheritance ruins.
• Hong Ying praised Ye Qiubai's Sword Dao and told the Grand State Preceptor that Lu Changsheng was her master and had saved her Nine Revolutions of Reincarnation.
• The Grand State Preceptor watched Xiao Hei fight the magma behemoth and Mu Wan'er earn an ancient Alchemy Dao grandmaster's inheritance.
• Ning Chenxin discussed the Confucian Dao with the inheritance's Great Confucian, asking how cultivators could uphold justice in a world ruled by the strong.
• The Great Confucian fell silent when Ning Chenxin asked whether cultivators could truly save the weak at the cost of their own forces.