Recaps

Lu Changsheng won the Alchemy Conference with a Heaven Rank pill, while Ye Qiubai and Xiao Hei destroyed the Heavenly Origin Dynasty and Ning Chenxin challenged the Buddhist Sect. The story left Lu Changsheng holding a dangerous spatial rift sealed as the Southern Region’s leaders prepared to investigate it.

• Lu Changsheng joined the Alchemy Conference, earned fourth-grade alchemy master certification, and advanced by improving pill recipes and creating an original Earth Rank pill.
• Lu Changsheng arrived late for the final round, refined a Heaven Rank pill through a pill tribulation, killed Wu Tuo when he tried to steal it, and won the Primordial Soul Pill.
• Lu Changsheng gave the Primordial Soul Pill to Hu Qing, refused invitations to join other factions, and rejected Mu Wan'er’s request to become his disciple.
• Ye Qiubai and Xiao Hei attacked the Heavenly Origin Dynasty, defeated its forces and sovereigns, and brought the dynasty to an end.
• Ning Chenxin condemned Buddhist cultivators for abandoning villagers to Devil Beasts, then traveled to Buddha Mountain and fought his way up against the sect’s defenders.
• Mu Wan'er studied alchemy and created a Middle Grade Profound Rank pill, while Lu Changsheng gave her his notes without yet accepting her as a disciple.
• Ye Qiubai brought Mu Ziqing toward the Southern Region after Elder Mu agreed to give Lu Changsheng seven days to treat her constitution.
• Lu Changsheng used the Big Dipper’s stellar power to seal the widening spatial rifts, then agreed to watch over the formation while Qin Tiannan and the others entered to investigate.

Lu Changsheng defended Ning Chenxin from the Buddhist Sect before sending his disciples into an ancient secret realm filled with inheritances and trials. The disciples gained new powers and insights, while Hong Ying learned the realm had been prepared for a future campaign on the Heavenly Road.

• Qin Tiannan and other leaders found an ancient secret realm in the Southern Region, but its voice judged them unworthy of its first trial and ordered them to leave.
• Ning Chenxin challenged the Buddhist Sect, and Lu Changsheng arrived to kill the attacking bodhisattvas before Fayuan persuaded him to spare the sect and take Ning Chenxin home.
• Ye Qiubai absorbed Mu Ziqing’s Frost Sword Spirit into the Dark Demon Sword, while Lu Changsheng’s pill stabilized her Frost Spiritual Vein.
• Qin Tiannan invited Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, Ning Chenxin, Xiao Hei, and Mu Wan'er into the ancient realm, where they entered its ruins and pursued separate inheritances.
• Ye Qiubai defeated Li You’s group, then joined Liang Feng and Murong Ce to overcome golden-armored puppets and enter the Sword Saint’s trials.
• Ye Qiubai passed the wood-intent trial, defeated a wooden counterpart by mastering his Sword Domain, and began comprehending the conceptions of the Four Absolutes Sword Array.
• Xiao Hei overcame the magma beasts, mastered the first level of the Eternal Devil Body, and received an inheritance after an armored figure intervened on his behalf.
• Hong Ying met the Grand State Preceptor, who revealed that he had prepared the secret realm for a future Heavenly Road campaign, while Ning Chenxin questioned a Great Confucian about protecting the weak.

Ye Qiubai and his companions helped the Northern Region Alliance resist the Sunset Dynasty, while Huang Tian Ming’s corpse puppets and the Buddhist Sect widened the threat. The alliance launched an offensive across the Great Rift Valley, where Ning Chenxin’s strength forced the enemy to retreat.

• Ning Chenxin entered the Celestial Person State after the Confucian Emperor helped him resolve his doubts, and the Emperor left him the Confucian Scripture.
• Huang Tian Ming used three Half-Step Void God corpse puppets to support the Sunset Dynasty’s invasion, while Ye Qiubai trained under a waterfall before joining the Northern Region Alliance.
• Ye Qiubai proposed an ambush at the Great Rift Valley, killed three late Qianyuan Realm experts, and helped the surviving squad escape a corpse puppet.
• Hong Ying and Ning Chenxin raided the Sunset Dynasty’s pill-refining camp while Ye Qiubai drew enemy fighters away, but Yin Corpse Elder and a corpse puppet forced them to withdraw.
• Lu Changsheng’s hidden formation stopped the enemy from pursuing Hong Ying and Ning Chenxin, and the Northern Region Alliance prepared to go on the offensive.
• The Buddhist Sect joined the war after an Upper Realm envoy revealed that Empress Yunhuang had been reborn and urged the elders to target her allies.
• The Northern Region Alliance marched on the Sunset Dynasty’s armies, and Ning Chenxin repelled two Qianyuan Realm experts with the Dao Scripture, prompting the enemy to retreat.

Ning Chenxin was lured into the Sunset Dynasty’s schemes, bringing Ye Qiubai and Hong Ying into a battle that ended when Lu Changsheng intervened. Ye Qiubai settled his feud with the dynasty and advanced, while the disciples returned to the Cottage, where Lu Changsheng struggled to improve its grand formation and Ye Qiubai tested new applicants.

• Ning Chenxin led a team to Azure City to stop the Sunset Dynasty’s massacres, then was taken to the imperial palace by Buddhist elders and the folding-fan envoy.
• Ye Qiubai and Hong Ying entered the imperial palace to retrieve Ning Chenxin and fought the elders, Huang Tian Ming, and the folding-fan envoy as the disciples were overwhelmed.
• Lu Changsheng’s phantom appeared, killed the long-bearded elder and the fierce-eyed elder, then annihilated the folding-fan envoy despite a warning from an Upper Realm phantom.
• Lu Changsheng let Ye Qiubai face Huang Yitong and Huang Tian Ming, and Ye Qiubai killed both, advanced to the Qianyuan Realm, and reached the Sword Ancestor level.
• Jiang Chan emerged after Huang Tian Ming’s death, learned that Ye Qiubai had destroyed the dynasty, and later took the tonsure and dispersed her cultivation to pray for his safety.
• The continent learned of Lu Changsheng’s victory, and crowds gathered at the Cottage hoping to join as its disciples returned and Lu Changsheng worked on the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Grand Array.
• Lu Changsheng added three smaller formations to the grand array, but they clashed during a test with the Willow Tree’s leaf puppet, while Ye Qiubai’s Sword Domain reduced the applicants to two after three days.