Recaps

The Sacred Church’s Blood Domain Soul Refining Array devastated Banan’s border, while the Supervisory Sacred Hall diverted its main force to contain a threat at the Nether River Abyss. Ba Xiyue and her allies reached the garrison headquarters to rescue Huo Xuedao, who warned them to flee.

• The Supervisory Sacred Hall ordered nearby inspectors to reinforce Banan but sent its main force to suppress Devil Qi leaking from the Nether River Abyss.
• Ba Tianque dispatched the twelve Attendants to Banan’s border, while Old Daoist Qingcheng sent an unknown message from Mount Qingcheng.
• Ba Xiyue, Jiang Yi, Han Shouyi, and their companions fought into the besieged border city, where officers said Huo Xuedao was trapped in the garrison headquarters.
• The twelve Attendants engaged the Evil Cultivators maintaining the array as Han Shouyi, Lu Mingyuan, Jiang Yi, and the gray-robed elder joined the battle.
• Ba Xiyue led the others into the garrison headquarters, where they found Huo Xuedao bound and gravely wounded; he urged them to leave.

Ba Xiyue exposed Huo Xuedao as a traitor and subdued him with Ba Tianque’s Imperial Intent. Fang Qiong identified a way into the evil formation’s core, leaving the group with two brief, shifting gates of life to use.

• Ba Xiyue and the others freed the apparently dying Huo Xuedao from blood-red chains, but he absorbed their Blood Qi and attacked Ba Xiyue.
• Ba Tianque’s golden hand stopped Huo Xuedao’s saber, crushed him, and sealed his soul and cultivation after Ba Xiyue revealed the clues that had exposed his betrayal.
• Ba Xiyue questioned Huo Xuedao about how to break the formation, but he refused to cooperate.
• Ye Qiubai relayed Fang Qiong’s explanation that the formation’s hub lay inside Mount Zhenyue, within a natural earth aperture.
• Fang Qiong located two shifting gates of life in the southeast and northwest, explaining that each lasted three breaths and reopened after a quarter of an hour.

Ye Qiubai and his companions entered Mount Zhenyue to find the source of the Blood Prison Soul Refining Array. They discovered the altar sustaining it, but eight Dharma Aspect Realm soul bodies revealed that the group had been lured into a trap.

• Ye Qiubai led the group to the hidden entrance, and Ba Xiyue used the Banan Imperial Clan's token to open a rift before it closed behind them.
• Ning Chenxin used the Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree to shield everyone as they descended through a passage filled with Evil Qi and the wails of remnant souls.
• The group reached a cavern and found a nine-tiered bone altar, a dark purple crystal, and a blood formation sustaining the array.
• Eight black-robed soul bodies emerged from the banners around the altar, each with the strength of the Dharma Aspect Realm.
• The black-robed leader admitted that the Sacred Church had lured the four factions' prodigies there and threatened to kill them.

Ba Xiyue, Yang Shao, Chu Ran, and Qin Zhao unleashed their strongest techniques against the sealed cavern’s black shadows, but the altar’s crystal core replenished the enemies’ strength. The four fell exhausted, leaving Ning Chenxin and his three companions facing the remaining four black shadows.

• Yang Shao asked Ba Xiyue to use her jade token, but the shadow leader revealed that the cavern blocked spatial and voice transmissions.
• Ba Xiyue, Yang Shao, Chu Ran, and Qin Zhao each attacked a black shadow, but their opponents’ realm and Dao Law advantages overwhelmed them.
• Chu Ran compressed Heaven-Defying Fen Yan and detonated it, severely injuring a black shadow but destroying his own ability to fight.
• Qin Zhao used the blood-sacrifice Soul-Slaying Sword to grievously wound another black shadow.
• Ba Xiyue and Yang Shao unleashed their trump-card techniques, injuring their opponents before they and Qin Zhao fell exhausted.
• The four black shadows remained standing as Ning Chenxin and his three companions faced off against them.

Ye Qiubai, Ning Chenxin, Xu Yeming, and Hong Ying faced the weakened black shadows while Qin Zhao and the others recovered. Ye Qiubai unleashed the Primordial Sword Scripture against one shadow, and Ning Chenxin stopped the leader's attack with the World-Purifying Incantation.

• Yang Shao warned Ye Qiubai and the others that the black banners fed the shadows wronged souls and evil Qi, while Qin Zhao asked for time to recover.
• Ye Qiubai, Xu Yeming, Hong Ying, and Ning Chenxin stepped forward to fight as the black shadows mocked them for coming from the lower realms.
• Ye Qiubai used the first and second swords of the Primordial Sword Scripture, damaging the formation and revealing that he had reached the Sword Dao Dharma Form realm.
• A black shadow recognized Ye Qiubai's swordsmanship and said that someone valued him, then clashed with him again.
• The leader of the black shadows lunged at Ning Chenxin, who summoned a blue lotus and used the World-Purifying Incantation to purify wronged souls and halt the attack.

Ning Chenxin used the united power of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism to overwhelm the shadow and destroy its fiend phantom. As the weakened shadow staggered back, four other shadows launched a surprise attack on Ning Chenxin.

• Ning Chenxin's World-Purifying Incantation dissolved the shadow's claw and damaged its soul body with a character of suppression.
• Ning Chenxin formed a Three Teachings Dharma Aspect, astonishing Qin Zhao, Yang Shao, and the others.
• The shadow summoned a giant fiend phantom with eight weapons and attacked Ning Chenxin.
• Ning Chenxin's World Purification strike shattered the fiend phantom and left the shadow nearly transparent.
• Four wounded shadows attacked Ning Chenxin from different directions.

Ning Chenxin used the Divine Talisman of Creation and the Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree to strengthen his Three Teachings Dharma Aspect, destroying four dark figures while Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, and Xu Yeming defeated their opponents. He then approached the last injured dark figure and demanded to know the attackers’ true objective.

• Four dark figures ambushed Ning Chenxin while Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, and Xu Yeming were occupied with other enemies.
• Ning Chenxin activated the Divine Talisman of Creation and formed a Three Teachings Dharma Aspect empowered by the Heavenly Seal Treasure Tree.
• Ning Chenxin’s Dharma Aspect overcame the four dark figures’ defenses and crushed and purified their soul bodies.
• Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, and Xu Yeming defeated the dark figures they were fighting.
• Ning Chenxin confronted the final injured dark figure and asked whether the attackers had targeted them and what their true objective was.

Ning Chenxin destroyed the formation’s soul banners and central crystal core, ending the invasion at Banan’s border and earning boundless merit. After he refused an offer to join the Supervisory Sacred Hall, a streak of black light suddenly attacked him from behind.

• Ning Chenxin used the Dharma manifestations of the three teachings to purify the eight soul banners, free the trapped souls, and crack the central crystal core.
• The blood curtain over Banan’s border vanished, causing the invading puppets to collapse into ash, while a beam of sacred merit descended upon Ning Chenxin and strengthened him.
• Ning Chenxin destroyed the shadow’s soul body, and a figure in a black-mist hall ordered someone to seize the divine object.
• Ba Xiyue thanked Ning Chenxin on behalf of the Banan Divine Kingdom, Qin Zhao invited him to join the Supervisory Sacred Hall, and Ning Chenxin declined in favor of Mount Qingcheng.
• A streak of black light shot toward Ning Chenxin’s back, leaving him unable to dodge as he felt death closing in.

Qu Lü arrived in time to save Ning Chenxin and confronted the mysterious attacker in the secret chamber. The attacker escaped after Qu Lü wounded him, while Qu Lü and the others suspected the Sacred Church had taken something from beneath the shattered altar.

• A black attack nearly struck Ning Chenxin, but an invisible barrier stopped it before Gu You arrived with Qu Lü.
• Qu Lü shattered the black light, exposed its concealed attacker, and trapped the shadow with his Sword Qi.
• The shadow detonated a black bead and fled through the cavern, but Qu Lü pierced and severely injured it before it escaped.
• Qu Lü told Lu Mingyuan he could not catch the attacker because it had burned its origin to flee.
• Qu Lü praised Ning Chenxin's Three Teachings Dharma Aspect and agreed with Han Shouyi that the Sacred Church had come for something beneath the altar.
• Qu Lü and Han Shouyi saw that the altar had been shattered and part of the ground beneath it had been dug out.

After the border crisis was temporarily resolved, the Banan Divine Kingdom hosted a banquet where Hong Ying encountered Chu Yan and the scheming Crown Prince Ba Tiance. Ba Tiance tested her knowledge of Imperial Intent, then invited her to watch the imperial capital’s grand boat procession with him in three days.

• A phantom received a vine from an injured black-robed man and said its appearance would likely reopen the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool.
• Ba Tianque hosted a banquet in the imperial capital to celebrate the border’s temporary pacification and thank those who had helped.
• Chu Yan saw Hong Ying at the banquet and told the Chu Clan’s third elder that he was serious about her despite her lack of bloodline.
• Yang Shao and Qin Zhao told Ye Qiubai and the others how Ba Tiance had crippled Ba Tianxuan to take the crown prince’s position.
• Ba Tiance questioned Hong Ying about her Imperial Intent, and she replied that she had no insights.
• Ba Tiance invited Hong Ying to watch the grand boat procession with him in three days, upsetting Chu Yan.

At a banquet, Ba Tiance and Chu Yan both pursued Hong Ying, but she rejected them and declared neither worthy of her. Ba Tianque then challenged her to compare Imperial Intent with Ba Tiance, and the two unleashed their power before the gathered guests.

• Ba Tiance invited Hong Ying to a sightseeing cruise, and Chu Yan challenged his attempt to single her out by revealing that he had known her longer and chosen her first.
• Ba Tiance and Chu Yan confronted each other over who would win Hong Ying's favor while Xu Yeming teased her about their rivalry.
• Hong Ying refused the invitation and declared she had no interest in either man, prompting the Supervisory Sacred Hall grand elder to cite her duties against the Sacred Church remnants.
• Ba Tiance said he would coordinate with Hong Ying later, and Chu Yan vowed not to give up; Hong Ying replied that neither of them was worthy of her.
• Ba Tianque proposed a contest of Imperial Intent, and Ba Tiance and Hong Ying released their Imperial Intent, which appeared equally powerful to the onlookers.

Hong Ying overwhelmed Ba Tiance in imperial intent at the Banan Divine Kingdom’s banquet, while Lu Changsheng’s disciples emerged from seclusion with greatly improved cultivation. The chapter ended with Xiao Hei asking to visit their eldest senior brother for a fight.

• Hong Ying’s imperial intent swept aside Ba Tiance’s, forcing him to withdraw and admit her superiority.
• Ba Tianque praised Hong Ying and toasted the guests for helping protect the Banan Divine Kingdom’s citizens from the Sacred Church.
• In the Changsheng Realm, Du Zhong and Lu Changsheng joked as they watched the Star Orbit Well, and Liu Ziru begged Lu Changsheng not to increase his medicine dosage.
• Xiao Hei, Shi Sheng, Xiao Shitou, and Fang Qiong emerged from the Star Orbit Well and greeted Du Zhong and Lu Changsheng.
• Du Zhong noted that Xiao Hei and Shi Sheng had reached the Dharma Aspect Realm, Fang Qiong had reached the late stage of the Creation Realm, and Xiao Shitou had advanced to the middle stage of the Dharma Aspect Realm.
• Xiao Hei asked Lu Changsheng to let them visit their eldest senior brother for a fight.

Lu Changsheng sent Fang Qiong and Xiao Hei to help Hidden Dao Academy replace its protective formations. Xiao Hei destroyed the formation with a punch, nearly wrecking the academy and leaving Qin Tiannan blaming Lu Changsheng.

• Lu Changsheng told Xiao Hei to consolidate his cultivation instead of seeking another fight.
• Qin Tiannan asked Lu Changsheng to help update Hidden Dao Academy’s protective formations, and Fang Qiong volunteered to set them up.
• Xiao Hei offered to dismantle the old formations, and Qin Tiannan took him, Fang Qiong, Shi Sheng, and Xiao Shitou to the academy.
• At Hidden Dao Academy, Xiao Hei destroyed the protective formation with a punch, shaking the Wilderness Realm and nearly collapsing the academy’s space.
• Qin Tiannan stared at Xiao Hei and blamed Lu Changsheng, who sneezed in the Changsheng Realm.

Hong Ying found a hidden message about the Nether River Abyss and the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool inside the Five Spirits Mystic Art while choosing a reward at the Banan Divine Kingdom’s treasure pavilion. After the group departed, Ba Tiance questioned whether they were truly from a lower realm, and an unseen man asked if a message had been delivered.

• Ba Tianque allowed Hong Ying and the others who had rescued Banan’s border to choose treasures, and Ye Qiubai’s group settled for pills while Hong Ying inspected cultivation methods.
• The Five Spirits Mystic Art repeatedly blocked Hong Ying’s path, and she discovered a hidden message about the Nether River Abyss and the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool inside its scroll.
• Ba Tiance invited Hong Ying to join him, but Chu Yan declared that she had already refused, and Hong Ying left with Ye Qiubai’s group.
• Ning Chenxin departed for Mount Qingcheng, while Chu Yan asked to accompany the Supervisory Sacred Hall as a guest and the grand elder agreed.
• Ba Tiance asked Ba Xiyue about the group’s origins, and in a palace side hall an unnamed man asked whether the message had been delivered.

After returning from their mission, Ye Qiubai and his companions connected a mysterious tip about the Nether River Abyss and the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool to the Sacred Church. They debated whether to investigate, but Qin Zhao arrived with a summons from the Hall Master before they could decide.

• On Mount Qingcheng, Old Daoist Qingcheng praised Ning Chenxin and learned from Qu Lü that the Sacred Church had been active for decades, including behind the Evil Cultivator incident at Withered Cloud Sect.
• Ye Qiubai and his companions returned to the Supervisory Sacred Hall, where their success silenced doubts about their abilities, then gathered at Hong Ying's cave abode to discuss her mysterious tip.
• Hong Ying told the group that the Nether River Abyss was the key to opening the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool, while Mu Fusheng connected the location to reports that the former crown prince of the Banan Divine Kingdom had been ambushed there and crippled.
• Ning Chenxin suggested the tip might have come from someone linked to the Sacred Church, and Mu Fusheng warned that investigating the dangerous abyss could expose their identities to the Supervisory Sacred Hall.
• Qin Zhao summoned the group to the Hall Master, and Jiu Bailu joked that the summons had provided them with an excuse to go to the Nether River Abyss.

The hall master assigned Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and their companions to help control the factions around the Nether River Abyss after two sealing pillars weakened and the outposts lost contact. As the group prepared to depart, Mu Fusheng secretly turned invisible and flew back toward the Heaven-Supervising Hall.

• Yang Shao led Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and the others to meet the hall master, who also invited Chu Yan because the matter involved his Chu Clan.
• The hall master revealed that the Li Fire Pillar and Kan Water Pillar had weakened, twenty-seven Inspectors had gone missing, and the Sacred Church was likely involved.
• The hall master assigned Qin Zhao and the others to keep the surrounding factions from disrupting the Nether River Abyss seal, while another team handled repairs to the pillars.
• Qin Zhao accepted the Heaven-Supervising Token and led the group toward the spatial teleportation array as Mu Fusheng claimed he needed to fetch talismans.
• Mu Fusheng secretly used talismans and a black cloak to turn invisible, then flew back toward the Heaven-Supervising Hall.

Mu Fusheng secretly entered the Heaven-Supervising Hall and overheard the hall master and a mysterious black-robed man discussing the mission to the Nether River Abyss. He left knowing the mission was a test tied to the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool, but remained uncertain about the black-robed man's identity and intentions.

• Mu Fusheng used talismans to enter the Heaven-Supervising Hall undetected and approached the inner hall.
• Mu Fusheng overheard the hall master and a hoarse-voiced man discuss sending his group to the Nether River Abyss as a final test, with a team secretly assigned to protect them.
• The hoarse-voiced man said an object in the abyss was key to opening the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool and that someone would guide Mu Jiu's group toward it.
• Mu Fusheng watched the black-robed man leave after warning the hall master to keep their conversation secret, and wondered whether the man knew he was listening.
• Mu Fusheng returned to his cave abode and resolved to prepare for the unavoidable trip to the Nether River Abyss.

Mu Fusheng joined Yang Shao and the others on a mission to the Nether River Abyss, where resources empowered by leaking Evil Qi had sparked conflict among local factions. They reached the valley entrance and found cultivators from the Styx Sect and the Yin Spirit Sect facing off.

• Mu Fusheng concealed his return to his cave abode, then arrived at the teleportation array with Creation Grade talismans he claimed to have inscribed in four hours.
• Yang Shao led the group through four spatial teleportations to Nether River City, where Luo Ke told them that rival factions were fighting over resources from the abyss.
• Luo Ke led Ye Qiubai and the others toward the Nether River Abyss while explaining that the Styx Sect and Yin Spirit Sect were contesting a valley filled with unusually potent treasures.
• Mu Fusheng pulled his hand away when Luo Ke took it, and Jiu Bailu teased him for seeming interested in Luo Ke.
• The group reached the valley entrance and saw cultivators from the Styx Sect and the Yin Spirit Sect facing one another.

Xu Yeming confronted the Styx Sect and Yin Spirit Sect as they prepared to fight over resources in the Nether River Abyss. Though they dismissed him as a junior, he revealed the Heaven-Supervising Token, and as the factions moved to resume their battle, he silently brought out the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

• Luo Ke explained that Song Gusheng and Wu Xinyan led the rival factions, while Qin Zhao said their mission was to end misconduct in the abyss.
• Xu Yeming volunteered to use the Heaven-Supervising Token after the group questioned how they could control the factions with so few people.
• Song Gusheng and Wu Xinyan began fighting, and their followers prepared to join the melee.
• Xu Yeming shouted at the factions to obey the Sacred Hall's prohibition, then revealed the Heaven-Supervising Token when they challenged his authority.
• Song Gusheng and Wu Xinyan agreed not to attack Xu Yeming's group but prepared to keep fighting over the resources, while Xu Yeming produced the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Xu Yeming summoned the bloodlines of several ancient beasts to deter the Styx Sect and Yin Spirit Sect from fighting over resources in the Nether River Abyss. As Song Gusheng and Wu Xinyan hesitated over how to respond, the Banan Divine Kingdom and the Chu Clan arrived.

• Xu Yeming used the Classic of Mountains and Seas to manifest the Torch Dragon, whose bloodline pressure unsettled the gathered disciples and dispersed Wu Xinyan's manifestation.
• Xu Yeming summoned Yinglong, the Divine Phoenix, Qilin, Taotie, and other ancient beasts, stunning both sects and Luo Ke and Yang Shao.
• Xu Yeming warned Song Gusheng that the Supervisory Sacred Hall could intervene if the sects' battle threatened the abyss's seal.
• A Yin Spirit Sect member cautioned Song Gusheng that Xu Yeming's standing made harming him too risky, and Song Gusheng decided to wait for Wu Xinyan's move.
• Wu Xinyan hesitated over the treasures in the spirit valley as the Banan Divine Kingdom and the Chu Clan arrived with a large force.

Xu Yeming used the approaching Chu Clan and Banan Divine Kingdom to intimidate the Styx Sect and Yin Spirit Sect into leaving. After returning to the Sacred Hall, the group suspected the Styx Sect would seek revenge, and Mu Fusheng's warning bell rang.

• Xu Yeming pretended to be familiar with Chu Yan and claimed the Supervisory Sacred Hall was overseeing Nether River City to protect the loosening seal.
• Ba Tiance, Ba Xiyue, the Moon Shadow Guard, and the Chu Clan's third elder agreed to help Xu Yeming, prompting Song Gusheng and Wu Xinyan to withdraw their factions.
• Ba Tiance and the Chu Clan headed toward the center of the Nether River Abyss, while Xu Yeming and the others returned to the Sacred Hall.
• Mu Fusheng and the others discussed the Styx Sect's killing intent and prepared for possible revenge.
• Mu Fusheng's bell rang, alerting the group to an immediate threat.

The Styx Sect attacked the Supervisory Sacred Hall after its resource supply was cut off, and Mu Fusheng’s preparations blunted their opening strike. The Nether River Ancestor then confronted the branch hall’s grand elder, and the two Formless Realm experts prepared to fight.

• Mu Fusheng sensed that thirty-one enemies were approaching, warned Ye Qiubai and the others, and helped the Sacred Hall prepare without revealing the Nether River Ancestor’s presence to the Inspectors.
• The Styx Sect launched thirty darts at Mu Fusheng and his companions, but his hidden talismans slowed them long enough for six White-Robed Inspectors to intervene.
• Wu Xinyan revealed the Styx Sect’s attack and dismissed Luo Ke’s warning that disrupting the seal could endanger Nether River City.
• The grand elder emerged to challenge the Styx Sect, but the Nether River Ancestor appeared with a stronger Formless Realm presence and demanded the Sacred Hall’s resources.

The Styx Sect attacked an undermanned Supervisory Sacred Hall branch, while an unseen force broke its protective formation. As the battle spread, Xu Yeming faced Wu Xinyan and stopped her heart-piercing strike with a punch empowered by eight supreme exotic beast bloodlines.

• The branch hall grand elder activated the Heaven-Supervising Sword Formation, but a fierce wind halted its giant sword and the Nether River Ancestor dispersed it with his cane.
• The Nether River Ancestor ordered the Styx Sect to attack, and he clashed with the grand elder as the six White-Robed Inspectors confronted the sect’s fighters.
• Wu Xinyan challenged Xu Yeming and summoned her Heaven-Swallowing Serpent Dharma Aspect.
• Xu Yeming summoned five exotic beasts through the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and their bloodline pressure shattered Wu Xinyan’s Dharma Aspect.
• Wu Xinyan lunged for Xu Yeming’s heart, but he stopped her claws with a punch gathering the power of eight supreme exotic beast bloodlines.

Xu Yeming used the blood of eight supreme exotic beasts and the Divine Talisman of Creation to unleash their combined attack against Wu Xinyan. Just as the beasts overwhelmed her, Nether River Ancestor intervened, dispersed them, and declared that Xu Yeming would die there.

• Wu Xinyan severed her own arm to stop the rejection backlash from Xu Yeming's eight fused exotic beast bloodlines.
• Xu Yeming swallowed a pill and used the Divine Talisman of Creation to boost his power as Wu Xinyan launched five Heaven-Swallowing Pythons at him.
• Xu Yeming summoned Torch Dragon, Yinglong, Divine Phoenix, Kunpeng, Taotie, White Tiger, and Qilin from the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
• The eight exotic beasts shattered Wu Xinyan's attack and overwhelmed her, forcing her to burn her Power of Origin and collapse to her knees.
• Nether River Ancestor appeared, dispersed Xu Yeming's summoned beasts with a single gesture, and declared that Xu Yeming could only die there.

Nether River Ancestor unleashed a devastating attack on Xu Yeming, but Dong Sanqiang arrived and cut it apart, forcing Nether River Ancestor to retreat. Dong Sanqiang revealed that Xu Yeming’s Thousand Treasures Card was why he had intervened.

• Nether River Ancestor summoned a purple dragon’s lightning to kill Xu Yeming, while Mu Fusheng prepared to break the seal on his strength.
• A white rainbow split Nether River Ancestor’s attack, revealing Dong Sanqiang’s silver spear.
• Mu Fusheng identified Dong Sanqiang as the Three Treasures Sect’s Formless Realm sect master, and Dong Sanqiang warned Nether River Ancestor that he had two spear strikes left.
• Nether River Ancestor abandoned the fight and left with Wu Xinyan after Dong Sanqiang challenged him.
• Dong Sanqiang gave the grand elder a pill, then told Xu Yeming that his Thousand Treasures Card was the reason he had saved him.