Recaps

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat defeated and captured four Spirit Wandering Realm experts while Yang Zhen denied luring anyone to the supposed Great Emperor’s treasure trove. He revealed that he wanted people to stop targeting him, then challenged Elder Feng by trying to overwhelm the Spirit Wandering State expert with his presence.

• Yang Zhen punched two Spirit Wandering Realm experts from the sky, while Shameless Cat tied up the fallen fighters.
• Elder Feng accused Yang Zhen of luring them to the site, but Yang Zhen denied it and recited a poem that hinted at the Great Emperor’s legacy.
• Yang Zhen warned that he was holding back only because he respected the law and demanded that people stop targeting him.
• Yang Zhen released a powerful presence and advanced on Elder Feng, startling the onlookers with his attempt to overwhelm a Spirit Wandering State expert.
• Elder Feng unleashed his own presence, and a phantom flood dragon appeared above him.

Yang Zhen unleashed the Desolate Heaven Technique, Samsara, and overwhelmed Elder Feng in a clash of soul power, capturing him and four other Spirit Wandering Realm experts. After discussing how to profit from their captives with Shameless Cat, Yang Zhen turned to the frightened crowd, who feared he intended to capture more people.

• Elder Feng's flood dragon projection clashed with Yang Zhen's dragon-elephant, and the crowd expected Yang Zhen to lose.
• Yang Zhen activated the Desolate Heaven Technique, Samsara, and his presence surged, shattering Elder Feng's flood dragon projection.
• Elder Feng spat blood and demanded to know how Yang Zhen had gained such power.
• Yang Zhen sealed Elder Feng's True Essence and had Shameless Cat tie him up, revealing that they had captured five Spirit Wandering Realm experts.
• Yang Zhen discussed how to make money from the captives with Shameless Cat, then addressed the terrified crowd.

Yang Zhen explained that the five captured experts had tried to kill him, then demanded that Flower Mountain Blessed Land and Earth Spring Grotto-Heaven send their sect masters to ransom them. He threatened to execute one captive each day after ten days and, if no one came by the fifteenth day, visit the sects himself, leaving the crowd to anticipate a major upheaval across the Youzhou Continent.

• Yang Zhen called on the frightened crowd to hear his side and claimed he had returned to White Cloud Mountain only to be attacked by five ungrateful men.
• Yang Zhen said he would spare the captives for now and asked the crowd to tell their sects to send their sect masters to ransom them within ten days.
• Yang Zhen threatened to kill one captive for each day the sect masters delayed after the deadline, then visit the sects himself if no one came within fifteen days.
• Shameless Cat praised Yang Zhen's plan, then wondered what preparations gave him the confidence to challenge two great powers.
• The crowd realized Yang Zhen had targeted Flower Mountain Blessed Land and Earth Spring Grotto-Heaven and feared the conflict would shake the Youzhou Continent.

Rumors spread that Yang Zhen had captured five Spirit Wandering Realm experts, while Fang Buming returned from a year on Evil Spirit Island and vowed to make Yang Zhen release Elder Dai and pay with his life. Fang Buming and Elder Ghost headed toward White Cloud Mountain as cultivators speculated that more than a dozen powerful figures would join them.

• People across the eastern Youzhou Continent learned Yang Zhen was from a village on White Cloud Mountain and heard that he had captured five Spirit Wandering Realm experts.
• Cultivators questioned Fang Buming about the rumors, and he threatened to force Yang Zhen to release Elder Dai and kneel at the Earth Spring Grotto-Heaven.
• The crowd learned Fang Buming had spent a year on Evil Spirit Island, where a sinister presence could drive living creatures into bloodthirsty madness.
• Fang Buming released a wave of killing intent and charged toward White Cloud Mountain.
• Elder Ghost of the Flower Mountain Blessed Land appeared, and Fang Buming paid his respects before both headed toward Yang Zhen.
• Cultivators set out for White Cloud Mountain, believing that more than a dozen powerful figures might be going to kill Yang Zhen.

Twelve Spirit Wandering Realm experts and dozens of Void Refinement Realm cultivators arrived at White Cloud Mountain to confront Yang Zhen. As the experts called for him to release their people, Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat prepared to rely on the arrangements he had made around the mountain.

• Twelve Spirit Wandering Realm experts, including Fang Buming and Elder Ghost, led a force toward White Cloud Mountain, drawing crowds of cultivators after them.
• At the Shangyuan Sect, Liu Ruoning worried about Yang Zhen, while True Person Changyue and Gou Shengtian admitted they could do little to help him.
• Lu Chenghui revealed that Yang Zhen had prepared dozens of places around White Cloud Mountain, and he urged everyone to wait for the outcome.
• The experts' arrival sent a terrifying surge of Qi across White Cloud Mountain, and Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat stopped eating to face them.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat argued over whether his Heavenly Book: Profound Principles Chapter preparations would work before a roar demanded that Yang Zhen release them.

Twelve Spirit Wandering Realm experts confronted Yang Zhen at White Cloud Mountain, demanding that he surrender five elders, while he and Shameless Cat drank and mocked them. As the experts launched a combined attack, Yang Zhen calmly told Shameless Cat to wait until they got closer before striking.

• Elder Ghost arrived with other powerful cultivators and demanded that Yang Zhen release the captives.
• Elder Ghost and Fang Buming decided to wait for more cultivators so they could make an example of Yang Zhen and demonstrate the grotto-heavens' power.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat ignored the gathered experts, played a drinking game, and angered Elder Ghost with their antics.
• Yang Zhen demanded a ransom, and Fang Buming urged the twelve Spirit Wandering Realm experts to attack him together.
• The twelve experts unleashed a terrifying combined strike, but Yang Zhen stayed calm and told Shameless Cat to wait until they got closer before attacking.

Yang Zhen trapped twelve Spirit Wandering Realm experts in a massive killing formation around White Cloud Mountain and began robbing them. After Elder Ghost died inside the formation, Shameless Cat discovered that Jueyin Sha Qi had corrupted his intelligence, while Yang Zhen remained focused on robbing the survivors.

• Yang Zhen activated a crystal that unleashed a killing formation across White Cloud Mountain, trapping the twelve Spirit Wandering Realm experts in thick fog.
• Yang Zhen ordered everyone in the formation to stand still and surrender their storage rings, while Elder Ghost and Fang Buming tried to respond.
• Elder Ghost became lost in the formation's deadly transformations and died after his suppressed killing aura erupted.
• Yang Zhen asked Shameless Cat what had happened to Elder Ghost, and Shameless Cat identified Jueyin Sha Qi as the force that had corrupted his intelligence.
• Yang Zhen dismissed the fate of the remaining experts and told Shameless Cat to hurry up with the robbery.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat robbed cultivators trapped in the Six Harmonies Killing Formation, which also strengthened the Shangyuan Sect by enriching its Heaven and Earth Qi. As Yang Zhen prepared to leave for the Spirit Road, Ye Zhiming told him that Spirit Maiden Hua was acting strangely on Evil Spirit Island.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat took cultivators' storage rings and valuables before escorting them out of the Six Harmonies Killing Formation.
• Fang Buming went mad inside the formation and strangled himself, while the Shangyuan Sect elders realized Yang Zhen had left the sect a powerful formation that increased the surrounding Heaven and Earth Qi.
• Lu Chenghui decided the Shangyuan Sect would erect a statue of Yang Zhen in its ancestral hall and have disciples pay respects to it.
• Ye Zhiming arrived and told Yang Zhen that Spirit Maiden Hua seemed to be in trouble, though she was unharmed and acting strangely.
• Ye Zhiming said Spirit Maiden Hua was on Evil Spirit Island, and Yang Zhen reacted with alarm.

Yang Zhen learned that Hua Youyue had gone to Evil Spirit Island, where Jueyin Sha Qi threatened to affect cultivators' minds, and rushed there with Ye Zhiming and Shameless Cat. He found Bai Xuan injured beside a sinkhole and learned that something had gone wrong while Hua Youyue was cultivating.

• Yang Zhen gave the Shangyuan Sect a Jade Slip explaining how to control the Six Harmonies Killing Formation and left with Ye Zhiming and Shameless Cat for Evil Spirit Island.
• The Shangyuan Sect members discussed how to handle the fallout from Yang Zhen's actions, while news of the White Cloud Mountain killing formation spread across the eastern Youzhou Continent.
• Yang Zhen arrived on Evil Spirit Island and sensed that its Blood Qi could gradually erode the minds of those who stayed too long.
• Ye Zhiming led Yang Zhen to Bai Xuan and the Water Moon Spirit Maiden near a sinkhole, where Yang Zhen noticed signs of a fierce disturbance.
• Bai Xuan told Yang Zhen that Hua Youyue had insisted on visiting Evil Spirit Island and that something had gone wrong while she was cultivating.

Yang Zhen learned that Hua Youyue had awakened in a shattered crystal coffin with an Ancient Bloodline and reached the Spirit Wandering State, but she attacked her companions and left. Shameless Cat revealed that Hua Youyue was not a member of the Hua Household, and Bai Xuan said she had gone to Spirit Peak on the Spirit Road to find something.

• Bai Xuan and the Water Moon Spirit Maiden told Yang Zhen that Hua Youyue’s blood had seemed to catch fire inside the crystal coffin before she woke and attacked them.
• Bai Xuan and the Water Moon Spirit Maiden said Hua Youyue had reached the Spirit Wandering State.
• Shameless Cat said Hua Youyue had awakened an Ancient Bloodline and was not a member of the Hua Household.
• Yang Zhen asked where Hua Youyue had gone, and Bai Xuan said she was heading to Spirit Peak on the Spirit Road to find something.

Yang Zhen learned that Hua Youyue’s awakened Ancient Bloodline could bring calamity even to Great Saints, but he welcomed the prospect of attracting heavenly lightning and set out with his companions for the Spirit Road. They reached the unexpectedly quiet Spirit Essence City, where a thunderclap struck as Shameless Cat joked about lightning, sending someone tumbling from the sky.

• Yang Zhen grabbed Shameless Cat and made him explain that Ancient Bloodlines were cursed and could draw sudden heavenly punishment, even endangering Great Saints.
• Yang Zhen decided that lightning might help him cultivate and asked Ye Zhiming to lead the group to the Spirit Road.
• Shameless Cat explained that Ancient Bloodlines came from the ancient Gu race, while Ye Zhiming led the group into the Sea East Region.
• Yang Zhen and his companions found Spirit Essence City nearly deserted and learned that the Spirit Road was not expected to open for six months, though it could be opened early.
• The Water Moon Spirit Maiden explained that five Tribulation Transcendence Realm experts guarded the city and that the strong were forbidden from oppressing the weak.
• Shameless Cat joked about Yang Zhen being struck by lightning, and a thunderclap sounded as a figure fell from the sky and crashed into the ground.

Yang Zhen learned how the Spirit Road’s Heaven’s Selection worked and decided to enter its most difficult passage. He left the others stunned when he approached a young woman on the Heavenly Mandate Road to ask about a little girl.

• Yang Zhen asked why people were falling from the sky, and the Water Moon Spirit Maiden explained that the Spirit Road had opened for Heaven’s Selection.
• Bai Xuan explained that powers used Heaven Plaques to send chosen cultivators onto the best road, while others could enter by choosing a passage themselves.
• Yang Zhen and the others reached a platform with nine spirit passages and saw that the thick black Heavenly Mandate Road held a dozen exceptionally powerful young cultivators.
• Yang Zhen chose the thickest passage, saying he wanted the best, and asked Shameless Cat whether a talented little girl would have taken it.
• Yang Zhen tapped a young cultivator on the shoulder to ask if a pretty little girl had entered, then realized the person was a young lady.

Yang Zhen talked his way out of offending Spirit Maiden Hongluan, then argued with Shameless Cat while the onlookers watched. Young Master Feng approached Yang Zhen as the atmosphere grew tense.

• Yang Zhen praised Spirit Maiden Hongluan and explained that he had mistaken her for a man, easing her anger and making her blush.
• Huang Mao admired Yang Zhen’s talent and mocked Young Master Feng for failing to make Spirit Maiden Hongluan smile.
• Spirit Maiden Hongluan scolded Xiu'er for teasing her about Yang Zhen, then threatened to make her enter the Heavenly Mandate Road first.
• Shameless Cat called Yang Zhen shameless, and the two loudly argued over who was the most low-key.
• Spirit Maiden Hongluan laughed at Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat, astonishing the other eleven people, while Young Master Feng walked toward Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat dodged Young Master Feng by staging a fight, then watched as Lin Tianli arrived and headed for the Heavenly Mandate Road. Young Master Feng revealed that Spirit Maiden Hua had entered before him, but Yang Zhen's warning came too late and Lin Tianli was sucked into the road.

• Young Master Feng approached Yang Zhen, but Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat argued and staged a fight to draw attention away from him.
• Behind a boulder, Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat discussed the strange crowd waiting beside the Heavenly Mandate Road and decided to stay cautious.
• Lin Tianli arrived, mocked the twelve gathered contenders, and announced that he would be the first to enter the road.
• Young Master Feng told Lin Tianli that Spirit Maiden Hua had already gone in and nearly killed him before.
• Yang Zhen leapt out and shouted for Lin Tianli to stop, but Lin Tianli was sucked into the Heavenly Mandate Road as its black pillar surged with True Essence.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat disrupted Lin Tianli as he endured the Heavenly Mandate Road’s heavenly might waterfalls, provoking him until he summoned a three-headed wolf. Yang Zhen mocked the creature, leaving Lin Tianli furious and bleeding as the crowd feared what he might do next.

• Lin Tianli entered the Heavenly Mandate Road and struggled against its unusually powerful heavenly might waterfalls.
• Yang Zhen learned from Spirit Maiden Hongluan that Spirit Maiden Hua had endured thirty-six waterfalls despite an injured Spirit Root.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat taunted Lin Tianli, distracting him until a waterfall struck his head.
• Lin Tianli roared at Yang Zhen and manifested a fierce three-headed wolf that unleashed soul power.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat mocked the wolf’s appearance, and Lin Tianli spat blood as the crowd feared his reaction.

Yang Zhen used a black heavenly might waterfall to knock Lin Tianli into the Spirit Road, leaving the crowd stunned by his cunning. He then announced that he would take on the Supreme Mandate of Heaven, despite being only at the Void Refinement Realm.

• Lin Tianli threatened Yang Zhen, then endured the nineteenth heavenly might waterfall while the crowd doubted Yang Zhen could escape his wrath.
• Yang Zhen lured Lin Tianli closer by claiming he knew how Hua Youyue had regained her strength, then told him to look up.
• A black heavenly might waterfall crashed onto Lin Tianli, shattering his three-headed wolf shadow and sending him into the Spirit Road.
• The crowd realized Yang Zhen had turned the dangerous black waterfall to his advantage and debated how little Lin Tianli had gained.
• Yang Zhen asked Shameless Cat whether it would enter alone or accompany him, and Spirit Maiden Hongluan and Xiu'er wondered how long he could last.

Yang Zhen entered the Supreme Mandate of Heaven to search for the young lady, despite not knowing how its heavenly roads worked. He appeared unaffected by its pressure and even licked the gathering True Essence power, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Spirit Maiden Hongluan explained that enduring more Heavenly Might Waterfalls might let cultivators reach higher heavenly roads, while Xiu'er said a restricted golden road existed inside the Supreme Mandate of Heaven.
• Yang Zhen teased Xiu'er and mussed her hair, prompting her to accuse Spirit Maiden Hongluan of liking him after Hongluan copied the gesture.
• Yang Zhen stepped into the Supreme Mandate of Heaven as Young Master Feng doubted that a Void Refinement Realm cultivator could endure it.
• Yang Zhen stretched and kicked inside the Supreme Mandate of Heaven, declaring that it was nothing special.
• Yang Zhen licked the gathering True Essence power, and the Shameless Cat muttered that he was up to new tricks again.

Yang Zhen entered the Supreme Mandate of Heaven and tested its gathered True Essence power while the onlookers argued about his arrogance and abilities. When the restriction formed dark Heavenly Might Waterfalls around him, everyone realized he faced a trial as powerful as Lin Tianli’s tenth waterfall, and the first one began descending.

• Yang Zhen licked the gathered True Essence power, and Shameless Cat asked whether it tasted good.
• Young Master Feng disparaged Yang Zhen, while Xiu'er defended him and mocked Young Master Feng’s claims about his strength.
• Yang Zhen joked that he was a legend and asked Xiu'er to count as he faced ten Heavenly Might Waterfalls.
• Dark Heavenly Might Waterfalls formed above Yang Zhen, astonishing the crowd with their strength.
• Xiu'er recognized that Yang Zhen’s first waterfall matched Lin Tianli’s tenth, and the dark waterfall rushed down toward him.

Yang Zhen faced an enormous dark Heavenly Might Waterfall inside the Supreme Mandate of Heaven, then stunned everyone by eating it. The chapter ended as he swallowed a second waterfall whole and belched.

• Yang Zhen cursed at the Heavenly Might Waterfall and asked it to grow thicker, causing it to intensify.
• Yang Zhen begged the waterfall to shrink, but it crashed down on him and obscured him in chaotic True Essence.
• Young Master Feng claimed Yang Zhen had been kicked out and tried to enter, but a mysterious force bounced him away.
• Yang Zhen reappeared unharmed, said the waterfall tasted crunchy, and drew Shameless Cat’s eager attention.
• A second dark Heavenly Might Waterfall descended, and Yang Zhen opened his mouth and swallowed it whole before belching.

Yang Zhen discovered he could absorb the Heavenly Might Waterfall by swallowing it and refining its power, and he devoured waterfall after waterfall while reciting poetry. When a dark waterfall carrying a golden streak of heavenly might appeared, Yang Zhen charged toward it, leaving everyone horrified.

• Yang Zhen recognized the Heavenly Might Waterfall as power resembling a heavenly tribulation and found he could refine it through his Yin-Yang Dual Meridians.
• Yang Zhen swallowed nine Heavenly Might Waterfalls while reciting poetry, astonishing the gathered cultivators.
• Huang Mao admired Yang Zhen's poetry, while Young Master Feng grew furious when Spirit Maiden Hongluan repeated Yang Zhen's verse.
• A golden streak appeared in a massive Heavenly Might Waterfall, and Young Master Feng warned that heaven and earth were enraged with Yang Zhen.
• Yang Zhen ignored the warning and charged toward the golden-threaded waterfall, intending to devour it.

Yang Zhen repeatedly devoured and endured the heavenly might waterfalls, astonishing the watching cultivators. As the most powerful waterfall gathered five golden beams, he unleashed his Literary Talent Qi Inscriptions and charged toward it, leaving everyone wondering what he intended to do.

• Yang Zhen chewed and swallowed a strand of golden heavenly might after the waterfall blasted him to the ground.
• Yang Zhen endured successive heavenly might waterfalls, which tore his clothes while leaving his body unharmed.
• The twentieth waterfall gathered five golden threads, and Spirit Maiden Hongluan warned that its power neared five bolts of heavenly lightning.
• Xiu'er urged Yang Zhen to retreat and said she wanted to work with him, while Young Master Feng watched with murderous intent.
• Yang Zhen activated his Literary Talent Qi Inscriptions and charged at the five-beamed waterfall.

Yang Zhen endured the five golden Heavenly Might Waterfalls and used their power to temper his body. As the chaos subsided, he announced that he had achieved the First Dragon-Elephant of the Dragon-Elephant Prison-Shaking Body.

• Xiu'er and Spirit Maiden Hongluan feared Yang Zhen could not withstand the heavenly might, while Bai Xuan realized he was using it to temper his body.
• Yang Zhen struggled beneath the waterfalls, rose despite his injuries, and defiantly raised his middle finger at the heavens.
• The heavens unleashed an overwhelming surge of power that crushed Yang Zhen to the ground, but he stood again and said the pressure was just right.
• The five golden waterfalls crashed down on Yang Zhen as golden light and roaring chaos filled the Supreme Mandate of Heaven.
• Yang Zhen endured the heavenly might and declared that he had finally achieved the First Dragon-Elephant.

Yang Zhen entered the Supreme Mandate of Heaven and discovered a golden Spirit Road that refined his power without raising his cultivation realm. Shameless Cat followed him inside by tricking Young Master Feng, then summoned and ate a dark Heavenly Might Waterfall of his own; Yang Zhen heard savage roars ahead as he prepared to continue.

• Yang Zhen finished refining his body with the Heavenly Might Waterfalls, then entered the Supreme Mandate of Heaven to look for Lin Tianli.
• Shameless Cat tricked Young Master Feng and slipped into the Supreme Mandate of Heaven, where his lick of heavenly might summoned a dark Heavenly Might Waterfall.
• Shameless Cat charged at the waterfall and began chewing on it, prompting Spirit Maiden Hongluan and Xiu'er to remark, "Like master, like pet!"
• Yang Zhen arrived on the golden Spirit Road and found that its inscriptions transformed into power that entered his body.
• Yang Zhen spent half an hour refining his power while keeping his cultivation at the Void Refinement Realm, then heard savage roars from ahead.

Yang Zhen encountered a herd of powerful golden beasts on the Spirit Road, discovered they burst into loot when killed, and slaughtered them. He then rushed to help Shameless Cat, who had drawn a second enormous herd behind him.

• Yang Zhen fled when over a hundred golden beasts charged at him, but he turned to fight after golden birds cornered him.
• Yang Zhen punched through a Void Refinement Realm bird, watched it turn into a golden ball, and killed the rest of the herd to collect their loot.
• Yang Zhen heard Shameless Cat being chased by roughly two hundred beasts and ran toward him.
• Shameless Cat rushed to Yang Zhen for help, and a dog bit his tail while he was distracted.
• Yang Zhen charged into the herd and killed beasts with nearly every punch, leaving Shameless Cat stunned by his strength.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat defeated the fierce beasts on the Spirit Road, where Shameless Cat absorbed the abundant vital Qi as they traveled. Outside, the onlookers watched Young Master Feng enter the Supreme Mandate of Heaven and lick the gathered heavenly might power.

• Yang Zhen killed most of the fierce beasts, while Shameless Cat killed one and pocketed its golden ball.
• Yang Zhen asked how Shameless Cat entered the Supreme Mandate of Heaven, and Shameless Cat claimed he had endured twenty streams of the dark-colored Heavenly Might Waterfall.
• Yang Zhen showed Shameless Cat how rich the Spirit Road's vital Qi was, and Shameless Cat inhaled the surrounding True Essence as they walked.
• The onlookers were astonished that Shameless Cat had endured all twenty streams of the Heavenly Might Waterfall.
• Huang Mao prepared to enter the Supreme Mandate of Heaven, but Young Master Feng stopped him and volunteered instead.
• After Huang Mao suggested that licking the heavenly might power might summon the dark-colored waterfall, Young Master Feng hesitated, then leaned forward and licked it.