Recaps

Xu Yeming exposed conspirators in the Xu and Xuanyuan Clans, then followed their trail to the Hidden Dragon Abyss with the Black Lord. There they uncovered the Divine Realm’s plan to control the gathered geniuses and seize the God Ascension Writ, but the Ancestral Dragon Soul intervened.

• Xu Yeming exposed Xuanyuan Zixi’s conspiracy, secured the Sun and Moon Token, and won Xu Chen’s help while warning Huang Xin and Han Daoxuan that their sects might contain spies.
• Ye Qiubai defeated Xuanyuan Che in a spar, while Xiao Hei overcame Su Heng and claimed a token, and Hong Ying lost her contest with Nan Tingfeng, who gave the token to Chu Yan.
• The group regrouped at the Dark Domain’s base, where Liu Ziru assigned their next steps as Xu Yeming and Ye Qiubai prepared to infiltrate the Xu and Xuanyuan Clans.
• Xu Yeming defeated Xu Huang and Xu Rulin in the Xu Clan training grounds, then learned from Xu Chen that the second elder was involved in the conspiracy.
• Xu Yeming overheard the second elder speaking with a mysterious contact, then brought the recording to the Black Lord, who agreed to investigate the Divine Realm’s gathering at Hidden Dragon Abyss.
• Xu Yeming and the Black Lord hid near the abyss as a white-robed Divine Realm man opened the sealed passage and ordered the conspirators to seize the core inheritance and capture rival geniuses.
• The Black Lord identified the Reversal Dragon-Tiger Platform as a means to empower geniuses while enslaving them, and the Divine Realm’s agents began converting Divine Qi to prepare for their plan.
• The Ancestral Dragon Soul injured the gathered black-robed figures and warned the white-robed man that the Divine Realm was nearing the limits imposed by powerful beings of the past.

Lu Changsheng entered the Divine Realm, uncovered its plan to enslave the Lower Five Realms, and learned from Nüwa that the crisis was tied to his disciples and the karma of an otherworldly race. He joined Jiang Yiyu and three hostile Divine Realm cultivators on a mission to find a Divine Source Core, where powerful beasts threatened to expose his true strength.

• Lu Changsheng arranged for the Ancestral Dragon to share Zhu Jiuyin’s body, learned that the Divine Realm had once dominated the other realms, and traveled through a hidden passage to investigate it.
• Lu Changsheng infiltrated the Heavenly Punishment Hall, posed as a Yellow Rank member, and discovered that the Divine Realm was gathering Divine Ore Essence while enslaving people from the lower realms.
• Lu Changsheng invented a vessel that absorbed the mine’s toxic poison, earning a summons to the Heavenly Palace and a place among the Divine Realm’s leading figures.
• Lu Changsheng impressed Xuan Heavenly God with his resonance with the Heavenly Profound Artifact Refining Record and became his disciple, while Jiang Yiyu was chosen as his nominal dao companion.
• Lu Changsheng secretly explored the Heavenly Palace and overheard the Azure Heavenly God and Xuan Heavenly God discuss their plan to enslave the Lower Five Realms and use the Six Realms’ Heavenly Dao power to open a passage.
• Lu Changsheng met Nüwa, who confirmed that Earth’s mythical figures were real and said the Divine Realm was a trial for his disciples, then warned of the karma tied to its otherworldly race.
• Lu Changsheng helped Jiang Yiyu suppress her Yin Qi and was sent with her, Xu Baorui, Tang Huai, and Ding Wanshan into the Land of Divine Rupture to seek a Divine Source Core.
• As the group neared the core, Ding Wanshan sensed powerful beasts and Xu Baorui, Tang Huai, and Ding Wanshan exchanged a glance, while Lu Changsheng searched for a place to strike without alerting their hidden watcher.

Lu Changsheng secretly killed three mission companions, helped Xuan Heavenly God complete the Realm-Slaying Sword, and entered Ice Soul Heart-Sealing Valley to rescue Jiang Yiyu. After meeting Qin Han beneath the canyon and helping Jiang Yiyu claim the valley’s treasures, he returned to the Heavenly Gods with his identity and plans still concealed.

• Lu Changsheng used the ancient sword formation and nearby beasts to kill Tang Huai, then trapped Xu Baorui in a Space Cage and killed him while Ding Wanshan also died in the valley.
• The Chief God of Inspection investigated the deaths, but the Heavenly Dao Edict attributed them to karmic tribulations, and Xuan Heavenly God asked Lu Changsheng to help finish the Realm-Slaying Sword.
• Lu Changsheng proposed channels that secretly threatened the sword’s stability, then rejected Jiang Yiyu’s advances as the Divine Realm prepared its operation and discussed their marriage.
• After Jiang Yiyu entered Ice Soul Heart-Sealing Valley, Lu Changsheng reached her at the seventh glacier, killed the Ice Soul Snow Wolves, removed her heart-sealing effects, and made her keep his strength secret.
• Lu Changsheng sent an External Avatar into Ice Rift Canyon, where it fought beetles and found Qin Han in a black coffin, and Qin Han explained the Star Essence’s role and offered the Heaven-Mending Generals’ service.
• Lu Changsheng and Jiang Yiyu continued through the glaciers, where the Mystic Ice Luan Phoenix joined them and the Ice Soul Divine Maiden gave Lu Changsheng the Eternal Frozen Star Core.
• Lu Changsheng forged a substitute core that let Jiang Yiyu fuse her eight Divine Soldiers and reach Half-Step Realm God, then left the valley with her and returned to the Heavenly Palace.
• Lu Changsheng told the Heavenly Gods that Jiang Yiyu had awakened her Ice Phoenix Bloodline and used his Chaos Dao Fire to overcome the valley, and they accepted his account, postponed the wedding until after the war, and rewarded him.

As the Chaos Divine Dynasty’s core grounds opened, Ye Qiubai’s companions entered the palace and faced the Void White Emperor’s and Samsara Emperor Venerable’s trials. Mu Fusheng and Jiu Bailu also passed a test tied to Heaven Beyond Heaven, leaving them to learn what inheritance rewards awaited and how perilous that realm was.

• Mu Fusheng learned that Bitter Zen Devil Buddha had survived and was targeting the Buddha Son, then joined his companions in rescuing Ning Chenxin and the Buddha Son from him.
• The Black Lord drove Bitter Zen Devil Buddha away and warned Xu Yeming’s group that the core region would soon open as powerful clans and cultivators prepared to enter.
• Ye Qiubai used the Azure Cloud Token to slip into the Chaos Divine Dynasty’s palace ahead of Xuanyuan Tianzhao and Dugu Jue, who agreed to cooperate in hunting him and claiming the Azure Cloud Sword Master’s inheritance.
• The Divine Realm began infiltrating the lower realms, while Shi Sheng sensed that the palace’s star chart resonated with his Star Core.
• Xiao Shitou entered the Ten Thousand Treasures Corridor’s spatial currents, inherited the Empty Realm Pearl, survived eight levels of lightning tribulation, and took the corridor’s treasures.
• Hong Ying entered a reincarnation trial, changed the Cloud Phoenix Empire’s fate by helping it grow stronger instead of preventing every hardship, and received the Hundred Refinements of Samsara from the Samsara Emperor Venerable.
• Mu Fusheng fought through an illusion to rescue Jiu Bailu, defeating the middle-aged man who tested him with his nine kinds of Ancient Divine Lightning and talismans.
• The old man revealed that Jiu Bailu’s constitution would attract powerful factions in Heaven Beyond Heaven and warned that few of the Chaos Divine Dynasty’s strongest figures might survive the journey there.