Recaps

Han Xuanji returned to Nine Mysteries Palace after breaking through to the holy lord realm and introduced his new disciple, Chu Qi, to the Dustless Palace disciples. He then told Mo Chenxiao he planned to investigate the looming beast tide in the Heavenly South Desolate Domain, which might be the fiercest one in ages.

• Mo Chenxiao complained that Han Xuanji had failed to tell him about his breakthrough, while Leng Qianshuang pointed out how little guidance he had given his disciple.
• Li Taiqing, Lu Fan, Lin Potian, and the other disciples discussed Han Xuanji's strength and their own progress as they waited for him.
• Han Xuanji arrived with Chu Qi, greeted Mo Chenxiao and the others, and introduced Chu Qi as his new junior brother.
• The Dustless Palace disciples welcomed Chu Qi, and Han Xuanji checked their cultivation progress, praised their hard work, and gave them treasures.
• Han Xuanji told Mo Chenxiao he intended to deal with a possible beast tide in the Heavenly South Desolate Domain, and Mo Chenxiao warned that it could be the fiercest in ages.

Han Xuanji learned that a massive beast tide would strike within the next few years and decided to simulate his young disciple Chu Qi. The simulation showed Chu Qi accompanying Han Xuanji to Thousand Souls City, where the beast tide arrived and Han Xuanji fought the beasts as even more terrifying enemies appeared.

• Mo Chenxiao predicted that the beast tide would erupt within the next few years, and Han Xuanji planned to take people to Thousand Souls City.
• Han Xuanji found that simulating Mo Chenxiao or Leng Qianshuang cost too many points, so he summoned Chu Qi and began a simulation with one and a half million Eternal Points.
• The simulation showed Chu Qi traveling with Han Xuanji to Thousand Souls City and feeling inferior to Han Xuanji's other disciples.
• The beast tide reached the city, and Han Xuanji stopped its advance with a sword strike before the beasts continued swarming forward.
• Han Xuanji entered the beast tide to fight powerful beasts, and several enormous, terrifying figures appeared from the horizon.

Han Xuanji watched Chu Qi’s simulation as a beast tide threatened the city, then saw Chu Qi’s stalled cultivation drive him to despair. He revealed that Chu Qi was a reincarnated Saint King burdened by a Curse, and the chapter ended with Han Xuanji’s simulated self offering a costly solution.

• Eternal Deities attacked the city, and Chu Qi’s master went out alone to face them before returning and announcing that the danger had passed.
• Chu Qi struggled to advance beyond the Eternal True Lord level and blamed himself as his senior brothers pulled further ahead.
• Chu Qi’s master confronted him about his reckless cultivation, and Chu Qi admitted that he feared bringing shame upon his master.
• Chu Qi’s master revealed that Chu Qi had once been a powerful Saint King whose memories and talent were sealed by a Curse across ten thousand reincarnations.
• Chu Qi despaired when he learned that the Curse could only be worn away over a long time, but his master said he had a costly solution.

Han Xuanji watched Chu Qi’s simulated life unfold after a fruit unlocked his talent, carrying him from a cursed, mediocre cultivator to a powerful Sacred Court leader. As war engulfed the Eternal Continent, Chu Qi uncovered foreign forces entering the conflict, while Han Xuanji realized the wider struggle was already underway and that he needed to become strong enough to escape its control.

• Han Xuanji saw that a fruit he gave Chu Qi in the simulation unleashed his cultivation talent and was likely the Time Dao Fruit, which he considered using in reality.
• Chu Qi rose through the Sacred Court, obtained his past self’s inheritance, reached the Holy Lord Realm, and gave the inheritance treasures to Han Xuanji’s simulated self.
• Han Xuanji’s simulated self became a Saint Emperor, while Chu Qi became the Seventh Sacred Hall’s hall master as war erupted between cultivators and Eternal Deities.
• Chu Qi fought on the front lines and survived an ambush by strange foreign experts, then reported it to his master.
• Han Xuanji learned that the Eternal Deities had allied with experts from foreign universes and realized he would need greater strength to break free of the conflict.

In the simulation, Han Xuanji and his Master combined three supreme body-refining inheritances with true-spirit techniques in pursuit of the Ultimate Dao. Han Xuanji died protecting his Master from a powerful outsider’s attack, and the simulation ended.

• Han Xuanji and his Master studied the Undying, Imperishable, and Immortal inheritances to create a new path through the physical body.
• After being ambushed near the Eternal Divine Tree, his Master learned that a complete, eternal true spirit was essential to reaching the ultimate path.
• Han Xuanji and his Master developed the Imperishable True Spirit technique, and Han Xuanji entered the Saint King Realm Stage.
• An alliance of experts from other realms attacked the Primordial Sea battlefield with a powerful outsider whose strength surpassed an Absolute Peak Saint King.
• Han Xuanji used the Undying Divine Cauldron to protect his Master, but the outsider’s attack shattered it and struck Han Xuanji’s true spirit.
• Han Xuanji died as his true spirit dissipated, and the simulation ended.

After the simulation revealed that a Supreme Saint King was targeting Han Xuanji and Chu Qi, Han Xuanji received powerful survival-focused rewards. He told Chu Qi that he was the reincarnation of the Undying Saint King, leaving Chu Qi stunned and wondering why his master had revealed the truth.

• Han Xuanji reflected on his simulated death and realized that hostile forces might be targeting him and Chu Qi.
• Han Xuanji examined the rewards, including two true-spirit techniques, the Undying Divine Cauldron, a damaged Saint King true spirit, and the Eternal Undying Physique trait.
• Han Xuanji decided to let Chu Qi choose for himself whether to take the Time Dao Fruit.
• Han Xuanji woke Chu Qi and told him that he had been the Undying Saint King in his previous life.
• Han Xuanji explained that the Undying Saint King's true spirit had been contaminated and reincarnated as Chu Qi, whose foundations were sealed by a Curse.
• Chu Qi was stunned by the revelation and wondered why Han Xuanji had told him.

Han Xuanji explained Chu Qi’s choices for repairing his true spirit, and Chu Qi consumed the Time Dao Fruit to restore his talent. Han Xuanji then brought Dustless Palace’s disciples to Thousand Souls City to prepare for the beast tide, where he told Hun Qianxue to keep their arrival secret.

• Han Xuanji offered Chu Qi the choice between consuming the Time Dao Fruit and slowly repairing his true spirit with secret techniques.
• Chu Qi chose the Time Dao Fruit, trusting Han Xuanji to keep him safe, and consumed it despite Han Xuanji’s warning.
• Han Xuanji left an incarnation to guard Chu Qi and took the others from Dustless Palace to Thousand Souls City to face the beast tide.
• Hun Qianling contacted Hun Qianxue, who greeted Han Xuanji at the Soul Household with respect.
• Han Xuanji told Hun Qianxue that the beast tide might target the border near Thousand Souls City and ordered him to keep their arrival secret.

After absorbing Chu Qi’s memories and Saint King origin power, Han Xuanji advanced to the Eternal Holy Lord Third Layer and strengthened his body-refining abilities. Using the Wuliang Eye, he discovered an Eternal Clan agent confronting Qin Xin in Thousand Souls City and decided to intervene.

• Han Xuanji claimed the Undying True Spirit and Imperishable True Spirit secret techniques, then absorbed Chu Qi’s damaged Saint King true spirit and origin power.
• The reward gave Han Xuanji Chu Qi’s memories and insights into three body-refining inheritances, advancing his cultivation to the Eternal Holy Lord Third Layer.
• Han Xuanji used the Wuliang Eye to inspect Thousand Souls City and discovered two Eternal Deities, including Qin Xin and an agent sent by Zi.
• The black-robed agent warned Qin Xin to leave the city and stop disrupting Zi’s plan, while Qin Xin defended her efforts to warn the cultivators and help people flee.
• As the confrontation grew tense, Han Xuanji withdrew his gaze, having decided to act.

Han Xuanji rescued Qin Xin from Youying and learned that Zi was preparing a beast tide while gathering information on him. Qin Xin revealed her ties to Huang and the Eternal Divine Hall, leaving Han Xuanji with a clearer picture of the factions involved.

• Youying used a spatial technique to take Qin Xin outside Thousand Souls City and bound her before Han Xuanji appeared.
• Han Xuanji's presence immobilized Youying, and Qin Xin recognized him from their earlier meeting at Shallow Dream Pavilion.
• Qin Xin identified Youying as Zi's Peak Sage subordinate and explained that Zi had sent him to scout Thousand Souls City and investigate Han Xuanji.
• Han Xuanji sealed Youying's divine soul and cultivation so he could not warn Zi or die.
• Qin Xin told Han Xuanji that she followed Huang, was only an incarnation, and had been warning cultivators to evacuate Thousand Souls City.
• Qin Xin marveled at Han Xuanji's rapid growth and said cultivators were becoming increasingly difficult for the Eternal Clan to oppose.

Han Xuanji prepared Thousand Souls City for the beast tide and deceived Zi about its defenses, but the enormous attack arrived with four Peak Sage leaders. The city’s cultivators faced the assault as Han Xuanji remained calm and Hun Qianxue tried to keep order.

• Han Xuanji controlled Youying and learned that the beast tide would strike in three months, then had him send Zi false information about Thousand Souls City’s weak defenses.
• Han Xuanji installed three layers of defensive formations around the city and additional restrictions inside it.
• Zi trusted Youying’s reports and sent a massive beast tide from the Heavenly South Desolate Domain toward Thousand Souls City.
• The beast tide reached the city with four Peak Sage Eternal Deities leading its forces, and the beasts attacked the protective formation.
• Hun Qianxue ordered the panicking cultivators to hold their positions while Han Xuanji calmly watched the assault.

Han Xuanji used Thousand Souls City's formations to repel the beast tide and then attacked its four Eternal Deity leaders directly. Zi watched the battle from the rear, stunned by Han Xuanji's power and suspecting that something was wrong.

• Han Xuanji activated three powerful formations, whose barriers stopped the beasts and whose swords of light killed many of them.
• The four Eternal Deity leaders failed to break the city's defenses, and the azure-scaled deity ordered the beasts to keep charging as expendable cannon fodder.
• Han Xuanji activated the Taiqian Spirit Formation, strengthening the city's cultivators as Jiang Hao attacked the beast tide from behind the barrier.
• When the leaders kept their distance, Han Xuanji used the Ten Thousand Swords Diagram to strike them, and sword light rapidly broke the azure-scaled deity's defenses.
• The wounded azure-scaled deity begged his companions and Zi for help, while Zi watched Han Xuanji and realized his strength was far beyond what he had expected.

Han Xuanji used the Ten Thousand Swords Diagram to kill two of Zi’s four Eternal Deity leaders and drive the remaining pair into flight, while keeping his true strength hidden. Zi hesitated to confront him, but a Holy Lord-level Eternal Deity moved to intervene after seeing its subordinate hunted.

• Han Xuanji’s sword light destroyed the Azure Scale Deity, and the city’s cultivators celebrated his victory.
• Han Xuanji targeted the other leaders; sword light killed the giant ape deity and pursued the fleeing crimson giant and black serpent deity.
• The leaderless beast tide fell into chaos as beasts scattered, collapsed, or attacked one another.
• Han Xuanji challenged Zi to fight or retreat, while his disciples questioned whether his supposed Sage Realm strength was believable.
• Zi weighed the danger of confronting Han Xuanji against the disgrace of retreating, suspecting a trap laid by the Sacred Court.
• A bluish Holy Lord-level Eternal Deity, angered that the crimson giant was being hunted, prepared to act.

Zi watched the Eternal Clan attack Thousand Souls City, but Han Xuanji and the city’s defenses held until Mo Chenxiao and two Sacred Court elders arrived. Convinced he could defeat the apparently small group of reinforcements, Zi charged into battle.

• The thunder giant god and other Eternal Deities accused Zi of backing down, so Zi told the thunder giant god to test Thousand Souls City’s strength.
• The thunder giant god attacked the city, and Han Xuanji strengthened its defenses and fought back with the Ten Thousand Swords Diagram.
• As the Eternal Deities joined the attack and Thousand Souls City faced danger, Mo Chenxiao arrived with two Sacred Court elders and drove back the attackers.
• Zi realized the Sacred Court had arranged an ambush but decided the reinforcements were too few to threaten him.
• Believing his power from Zhu gave him the advantage, Zi charged toward the battlefield.

Zi arrived before Thousand Souls City with a vast army and threatened to destroy the city unless Han Xuanji withdrew. Though the Sacred Court elders urged Han Xuanji to retreat, he trusted the Immeasurable Saint Emperor’s assurance and confronted Zi, warning him that death was at his door.

• Zi displayed his overwhelming power before Thousand Souls City and offered to spare Han Xuanji if the Sacred Court forces withdrew.
• The Eternal Deities mocked Zi’s rise but remained wary of his strength.
• The two Sacred Court elders judged Zi to be near peak Holy Lord strength and urged Han Xuanji to retreat while they held him off.
• Mo Chenxiao admitted that Zi’s power exceeded his expectations, but Han Xuanji said he had the Immeasurable Saint Emperor’s assurance and other safeguards.
• Han Xuanji stepped forward and told Zi that death was at his door.

Han Xuanji confronted Zi and five Holy Lord-level Eternal Deities attacking Thousand Souls City, then revealed the Nine Luminaries Sword Case and his Holy Lord Realm cultivation. The chapter left him striking the leading thunder deity with all nine swords, severing its arms and piercing its thigh.

• Zi suspected Han Xuanji was baiting him, so he threatened to destroy Thousand Souls City and ordered the five Eternal Deities to attack its formation.
• Li Taiqing and Yun Wuji reassured Mo Chenxiao that Han Xuanji had a plan while the attackers battered the city barrier.
• Han Xuanji appeared outside the city and opened the Nine Luminaries Sword Case, revealing nine powerful Eternal Saint Artifacts.
• Han Xuanji unleashed his Holy Lord Realm presence and sent the nine swords at the charging thunder deity.
• Han Xuanji's swords severed the thunder deity's arms and pierced its left thigh.

Han Xuanji swiftly defeated and sealed the Thunder Deity, then trapped the remaining Eternal Deities in a sword array. As the panicked deities struggled to decide what to do, Han Xuanji killed the scaled deity and sealed its origin core.

• Han Xuanji used Sword Intent to prevent the Thunder Deity from regenerating, shattered its body, and sealed its core in his sea of consciousness.
• The cultivators on the city walls cheered Han Xuanji's victory, while Mo Chenxiao privately worried that his disciple had surpassed him.
• The four remaining Holy Lord-level Eternal Deities panicked, and Zi tried to convince them that Han Xuanji's strength came from a temporary Secret Method.
• Han Xuanji summoned nine divine swords to form an array that locked space and blocked the Eternal Deities' escape.
• Han Xuanji appeared beside the scaled deity and cut off its head, sealing its origin core with Sword Intent.

Han Xuanji overwhelmed Zi and the other Eternal Holy Lords, killing them one by one until Zi escaped toward Zhu’s territory. Han Xuanji deliberately let Zi break through and pursued him, intending to keep events aligned with the simulation and confront Zhu.

• Zi gathered the surviving deities, urged them to join forces against Han Xuanji, and secretly sent pleas for help to An, Zhu, and other powerful Eternal Deities.
• Zi and the other Eternal Holy Lords attacked Han Xuanji, but he countered their abilities with the Mystic Heaven Sword and his Great Void God-Slaying Sword.
• Han Xuanji struck down the giant bird deity and killed the other Eternal Holy Lords, leaving Zi alone and utterly suppressed.
• Zi unleashed the origin power Zhu had bestowed upon him, broke through Han Xuanji’s Sword Intent barrier, and fled toward the Heavenly South Desolate Domain while calling for help.
• Han Xuanji pursued Zi after deliberately allowing him to escape, choosing to follow the simulation’s course and confront Zhu.

Han Xuanji pursued Zi into the Heavenly South Desolate Domain and fought off Zi and An until the Saint King-level deity Xu appeared. Zi begged Xu to save him, while An realized Han Xuanji was not surprised by Xu's arrival.

• An sensed Zi fleeing from Han Xuanji and rushed out to protect his elder brother.
• Han Xuanji attacked An with a Time Slash, the Ten Directions Seal, and his sword, forcing An and Zi to retreat into the Desolate Domain.
• Han Xuanji pursued the brothers as the living beings of the Heavenly South Desolate Domain watched without intervening.
• Xu emerged from deep within the Desolate Domain, and Zi ran to his feet to plead for help against Han Xuanji.
• An noted that Han Xuanji showed no panic at Xu's appearance and suspected something was wrong.

Han Xuanji attacked Zi despite Xu’s Saint King pressure, prompting Xu to intervene and Holy Venerable Tianming to confront him. Tianming gained the upper hand with the River of Fate and a Saint King weapon, while Xu tried to flee.

• Xu pressured Han Xuanji to retreat, but Han Xuanji used the Unfettered Ultra Instinct Technique and struck at Zi.
• Xu blocked Han Xuanji’s sword, and Holy Venerable Tianming appeared to shield Han Xuanji and challenge Xu for interfering in the duel.
• Holy Venerable Tianming summoned the River of Fate and overwhelmed Xu’s shadow attacks by predicting their paths.
• Tianming pierced Xu with a thread of cause and effect, weakening him, then sent a dark-bird Saint King weapon to attack.
• Xu tried to escape by dispersing his massive form into gray-white mist.

Holy Venerable Tianming wounded Xu, but Zhu appeared to protect him and ordered the cultivators to end the conflict. Han Xuanji learned Zhu had foreseen the Eternal Deities' defeat, while Immeasurable Saint Emperor arrived and told Han Xuanji and Mo Chenxiao to leave.

• Holy Venerable Tianming struck Xu with the Power of Fate, blasting apart his mist form and leaving him badly weakened.
• Han Xuanji withdrew from the fight and spoke with Mo Chenxiao, who reproached him for hiding the plan and marveled at his growth.
• Zhu emerged from the depths of the Heavenly South Desolate Domain, steadied Xu, and warned the cultivators not to kill him.
• Han Xuanji learned that Zhu had used the Origin of Time to foresee the Eternal Deities' defeat and suspected that Zhu could not detect him.
• Holy Venerable Tianming realized Zhu had sent his true body because he cared about Xu, and Immeasurable Saint Emperor appeared beside Han Xuanji and Mo Chenxiao, telling them to leave.

Han Xuanji watched the Saint Kings battle Zhu from inside the Void Grand Canon and asked Ji Mingyue about the difference between Top-Tier and Absolute Peak Saint Kings. Ji Mingyue explained that true Absolute Peak Saint Kings surpassed most Primordial Eternal Deities, and Han Xuanji asked whether Zhu was among them.

• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor brought Han Xuanji and Mo Chenxiao to safety inside the Void Grand Canon, where they met Ji Mingyue.
• The cultivator faction and the Eternal Deities clashed across the Heavenly South Desolate Domain, with the Immeasurable Saint Emperor and other powers barely holding back Zhu.
• Han Xuanji reflected that his pursuit of Zi and Xu had helped draw Zhu into the cultivators’ trap.
• Han Xuanji asked Ji Mingyue how Absolute Peak Saint Kings differed from Top-Tier Saint Kings and how their strength compared.
• Ji Mingyue explained the limits of Saint King cultivation and Dao, and said true Absolute Peak Saint Kings were far stronger than most Primordial Eternal Deities.
• Han Xuanji asked whether Zhu was among the majority of Primordial Eternal Deities.

Ji Mingyue explained why Zhu’s borrowed mastery of time could not match a cultivator’s own Dao, while the cultivators’ forces fought him in the Heavenly South Desolate Domain. She used the God-Slaying Sword to break Zhu’s Time Domain, and the sword’s next strike severed all three of his heads.

• Ji Mingyue explained that breaking the limit of heaven and earth was nearly impossible, and that a cultivator at the Absolute Peak Saint King level could overpower a primordial Eternal Deity.
• Zhu transformed into a colossal three-headed dragon-serpent and faced ten top Saint Kings and dozens of other Saint Kings.
• Zhu activated his Time Domain, shielding himself with interlocking spacetime and a destructive vortex of origin power.
• Ji Mingyue summoned the God-Slaying Sword, whose Sword Ancestor intent shattered Zhu’s Time Domain as the cultivators attacked.
• The God-Slaying Sword struck again and cut off Zhu’s three heads.

The cultivators defeated Zhu and captured or killed the Heavenly South Desolate Domain’s strongest Eternal Deities. Afterward, the Immeasurable Saint Emperor praised Han Xuanji and decided to announce him as the Sacred Court’s Young Emperor, while warning that Zhu’s death would bring further upheaval.

• Ji Mingyue used the God-Slaying Sword to break Zhu’s Time Domain and sever his undying authority, allowing the Saint Kings to overwhelm and pin him to the ground.
• The cultivators captured the Saint King-level Eternal Deities and killed or suppressed others, sweeping away the Heavenly South Desolate Domain’s top fighting forces.
• Han Xuanji told Mo Chenxiao he did not blame himself for the coming conflict, and Mo Chenxiao accepted his reasoning.
• Ji Mingyue, the Immeasurable Saint Emperor, and the other cultivators joined Han Xuanji in the Void Grand Canon, where the Immeasurable Saint Emperor praised him and announced plans to reveal his Young Emperor identity.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor told Han Xuanji that the cultivators had chosen the best course and that the Eternal Deities had helped cause the crisis by exposing the coordinates of space and time.

The Immeasurable Saint Emperor explained the cultivators’ war with the Eternal Deities and revealed that the Eternal Continent was an Origin-level world with the potential to produce an Origin Sovereign. Han Xuanji learned that control of the Eternal Divine Tree or mastery of the Origin Principle might unlock that power, and that the tree’s Origin Principle could be why outsiders sought to annex their world.

• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor said the Eternal Deities had rejected the cultivators’ proposal for peaceful cooperation, then exposed the Eternal True Tree Realm’s coordinates and forced the cultivators into a treaty after outside forces joined the war.
• Han Xuanji compared the conflict to the Dark Forest Principle, and the Immeasurable Saint Emperor agreed before explaining that the Eternal Continent was the center of a Source World within the Infinite True Realm.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor revealed that most Source Worlds could produce at most one Supreme powerhouse, while the Eternal Continent was an Origin-level world capable of producing multiple Supremes and an Origin Sovereign.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor explained that controlling the Eternal Divine Tree could make someone the world’s sovereign, but outsiders were restricted from taking control of it.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor said the Eternal Divine Tree might contain an Origin Principle, which could explain why otherworldly powerhouses wanted to annex the world.

Han Xuanji learned that the system might be the Origin Principle and that Sage King Wendao had died protecting the Eternal Divine Tree during an invasion. The Immeasurable Saint Emperor explained that the war was meant to stop an Origin Sovereign from emerging, and he named Han Xuanji as the cultivator civilization’s likeliest candidate.

• Han Xuanji suspected the Origin Principle had taken the form of his system and connected it to Sage King Wendao.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor revealed that Sage King Wendao had failed to become an Origin Sovereign and died defending the Eternal Divine Tree from invading powerhouses.
• Han Xuanji learned that the Eternal Deities faced a new attack because outsiders feared the rise of an Origin Sovereign in their origin world.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor confirmed that the war and Eternal Plan aimed to nurture an Origin Sovereign, and said he believed Han Xuanji was the likeliest candidate.
• The Immeasurable Saint Emperor explained that the nine supreme factions forbade killing peerless prodigies because any of them might become a sovereign, following the rule Sage King Wendao had established.