Recaps

Duan Xingzhi challenged Yang Zhen, but Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er stepped in to face him. After Yang Zhen mocked Duan Xingzhi and sent the women back to his side, Duan Xingzhi attacked, and Yang Zhen appeared behind him with the Great Deficiency Sword poised to strike.

• Duan Xingzhi approached Yang Zhen and unleashed the presence of a Mahayana Realm Ninth Heaven expert, while Gong Sanhe and Death Shadow discussed Yang Zhen's strength.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er stepped forward together, combining their presence to match and surpass Duan Xingzhi's.
• Duan Xingzhi accused Yang Zhen of hiding behind women, and Yang Zhen proudly defended the tactic and taunted him.
• Yang Zhen told Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er to withdraw, and they returned to his side after putting away their Sun and Moon Twin Shadow Saint Weapons.
• Duan Xingzhi charged at Yang Zhen, who vanished and reappeared behind him, swinging the Great Deficiency Sword as Gong Sanhe called for mercy.

Yang Zhen crushed Duan Xingzhi in a fight, but Duan chose to burn his soul and strike the altar rather than accept defeat. The altar rose from the ground as the entire Land of Nine Dragons Quehua erupted, forcing Yang Zhen to flee with Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er.

• Yang Zhen shattered Duan Xingzhi's sword and smashed his shoulder, then taunted him while the Ancient Life Sect disciples rushed to attack.
• Gong Sanhe stopped the disciples and pleaded with Yang Zhen to spare Duan Xingzhi, but Yang pointed out that Duan would not have shown him the same mercy.
• Duan Xingzhi admitted Yang was right and said the weak were prey to the strong, then burned his soul and raced toward the altar.
• Duan Xingzhi struck the altar and died as his soul unleashed a threat against everyone nearby.
• The altar rose like a mountain, the surrounding range shook, and pillars of light spread across the Land of Nine Dragons Quehua as Yang Zhen fled with Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er.

As the Land of Nine Dragons Quehua collapsed under the Great Restriction of Heaven and Earth, Yang Zhen turned back to find Flirtatious Chicken after sending Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er away. He and Shameless Cat reached the altar, still unsure where Flirtatious Chicken was.

• As the land erupted with destruction, Yang Zhen decided to return for Flirtatious Chicken and told Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er to escape without him.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er each promised to wait five days, and Hua Youyue took Han Yan'er away on a night-blooming cereus.
• Yang Zhen charged back through the fleeing cultivators with Shameless Cat and the Great Deficiency Sword, ignoring their warnings and joking with the cat.
• At the altar, Shameless Cat asked where Flirtatious Chicken might be, and Yang Zhen admitted he had charged in without a plan.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat tried to draw Flirtatious Chicken out by provoking trouble, but instead they encountered a terrifying Demon Beast and fled underground. Meanwhile, matching altars rose in the Eastern Sea Abyss and the Sea of Sin Desert, sending the cultivation world into turmoil.

• Yang Zhen had Shameless Cat shout that Flirtatious Chicken’s mother was calling, then rushed toward a distant roar to stir up trouble and attract Flirtatious Chicken’s attention.
• They found a huge cyan altar rising from the ground and spotted an enormous many-trunked Demon Beast in a nearby valley.
• Shameless Cat warned Yang Zhen that Demon Beasts could defeat human cultivators far stronger than their apparent realm, and the beast charged at them.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat fled from the Demon Beast, then used the Earth Treasury Technique to plunge underground as it stomped at them.
• An identical altar rose from the Eastern Sea Abyss, while another emerged from the Sea of Sin Desert and unleashed surging True Essence across the Western Region.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat hid from the giant Demon Beast Aguduo as heaven and earth essence surged across the Southern Frontier. When a Demon Race girl discovered Yang Zhen, he tried to pass himself off as one of her kind, but she challenged his story.

• Mountains collapsed across the Southern Frontier as waves of heaven and earth essence surged out.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat hid from Aguduo and discussed whether the powerful beast would make a suitable mount.
• A Demon Race girl arrived and spoke with Aguduo, which was searching for a human by scent.
• Yang Zhen observed that the girl had reached the Heaven Realm despite being only at the Early Mahayana Realm.
• Aguduo smashed the rock hiding Yang Zhen, and the girl identified him as a human.
• Yang Zhen claimed he belonged to the Demon Race, but the girl questioned how he could have lived in human society when her people had been sealed away for twenty thousand years.

Yang Zhen spoke with Jiajia about human life and learned that the Demon Race had emerged after the Heaven and Earth Shackles were broken. As primordial Qi began surging across the world, Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat prepared to act amid the upheaval.

• Yang Zhen entertained Jiajia with stories of human society, and she asked about Ferris wheels and spicy strips.
• Jiajia said her mother and the other members of the Demon Race had emerged, then invited Yang Zhen to return with her; he declined.
• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that those sealed away were the lucky ones, while other races had been scattered or killed by heavenly punishment.
• A lightning bolt struck after Yang Zhen questioned heaven, and Shameless Cat speculated that an ancient Great Tribulation had cleansed living beings.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat sensed primordial Qi surging again, agreed that the next encounter had begun, and prepared to get moving.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat searched the battlefield for Flirtatious Chicken, then discovered that human cultivators were attacking the Beiqi Demon Race’s inheritance ground for the Heart of Dawn. As Duan Sihai confronted the demon Pikachu over the inheritance, Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat sneaked underground.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat searched the battlefield for Flirtatious Chicken while humans and the Demon Race fought.
• Yang Zhen noticed that human cultivators were attacking a particular cavern, and Shameless Cat recognized it as the Beiqi Demon Race’s inheritance ground.
• Shameless Cat explained that the Heart of Dawn had helped Great Emperor Dawn break beyond the Emperor Realm and stand against a legendary opponent.
• Pikachu vowed to kill the humans threatening the Beiqi inheritance, and Duan Sihai challenged him to return what the Demon Race had guarded for twenty thousand years.
• As Duan Sihai and Pikachu unleashed their power, Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat sneaked underground.

Yang Zhen entered the Demon Race’s inheritance ground to search for the Heart of Heaven and Earth, while powerful fighters clashed on the surface. Deep underground, he followed a little fox and an External Cultivation Sect member toward a magma pool, then kicked at the cultivator as the fox leaped into the lava.

• A peak Spirit Transformation Realm Demon Race elder struck Duan Sihai and warned that the human cultivators could all die there.
• Aguduo appeared and attacked the human cultivators with waves of flame as Yang Zhen burrowed underground with Shameless Cat.
• Yang Zhen reached the enormous cavern of the inheritance ground and spotted a little fox moving farther inside.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat followed an External Cultivation Sect member who was secretly trailing the fox.
• The fox cried out and leaped into a magma pool, and Yang Zhen jumped after her as the External Cultivation Sect member attacked him.
• Yang Zhen shouted for the cultivator to get out of the way and kicked at him with one big foot.

Yang Zhen rescued the little fox from an External Cultivation Sect cultivator and learned that the Beiqi Demon Race planned to unleash a calamity by detonating a sacrificial site. He agreed to save the fox’s sister and find the Heart of Heaven and Earth, then plunged into the lava below.

• Yang Zhen used a Shadow Clone to trick the External Cultivation Sect cultivator and kick him into a red-hot rock.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat recalled that Duan Sihai had falsely claimed to belong to the Ancient Life Sect.
• Shameless Cat learned from the little fox that the Beiqi Demon Race planned to release countless departed souls by detonating their sacrificial site, using the fox’s older sister as a living sacrifice.
• Shameless Cat warned Yang Zhen that entering the triple-Yin sacrificial site required dividing his Yang spirit into three and that he had only a quarter of an hour.
• Yang Zhen leaped into the lava to break the restriction, save the fox’s sister, and find the Heart of Heaven and Earth.

Yang Zhen found the Beiqi woman Jue’er had sent him to rescue in the Tomb of Departed Souls, but learned she intended to unleash the trapped spirits. After condemning the Beiqi Clan for keeping its ancestors imprisoned, he discovered its fortune was nearly exhausted, and the woman begged him to save her clan.

• Yang Zhen emerged from the magma into the Tomb of Departed Souls and met Jue’er’s sister, who warned that hundreds of saint-grade restrictions made escape impossible.
• The woman revealed her mission was to detonate the tomb and kill the human cultivators who had entered Beiqi, but Yang Zhen questioned whether she had chosen this herself.
• Yang Zhen sensed the departed souls growing violent and accused the Beiqi Clan of exploiting its ancestors by trapping them in the tomb.
• Yang Zhen said the Beiqi Clan’s fortune was nearly exhausted, startling the woman, then asked which way led to the Heart of Heaven and Earth.
• The woman pointed him toward the Heart of Heaven and Earth, then knelt and begged Yang Zhen to save the Beiqi Clan.

Que'er begged Yang Zhen to save the Beiqi Clan as the Tomb of Departed Souls erupted and thousands of ancestral souls broke through the restrictions. When Que'er prepared to sacrifice herself, Yang Zhen cursed the heavens to summon heavenly punishment, and lightning filled the underground space.

• Que'er knelt before Yang Zhen and explained that the Beiqi Clan's fortune had run out and its departed ancestors were growing more numerous.
• The restrictions collapsed under the ancestors' attacks, and Que'er tried to push Yang Zhen to safety while preparing to ignite her three Yangs.
• Que'er urged Yang Zhen to escape and asked him to save the Beiqi Clan, but Yang Zhen insisted that she would be the one to save it.
• Yang Zhen cursed the heavens and demanded heavenly punishment to stop the Tomb of Departed Souls.
• Thunder answered Yang Zhen's challenge, and raging tribulation clouds illuminated the underground space as Que'er stared in shock.

Yang Zhen provoked heavenly punishment and kept Que'er from intervening, then sent the Evil Shadow Black Taotie into the lightning to devour its essence. He charged into the tribulation himself, hoping to use it to open the Sixth Dragon Elephant, leaving Que'er and the Demon Race ancestors stunned.

• Que'er tried to stop Yang Zhen from insulting the heavens when tribulation clouds gathered over him.
• Yang Zhen sent Que'er away and goaded the heavens until blood-red lightning punishment descended.
• Que'er rushed to protect Yang Zhen, but he trapped her on a magically created treadmill and ordered her to stay back.
• The Evil Shadow Black Taotie emerged, endured the lightning, and began devouring Lightning Essence at Yang Zhen's urging.
• Yang Zhen leaped into the heavenly punishment and endured its lightning, declaring that he would use it to open the Sixth Dragon Elephant.

Yang Zhen endured Heavenly Punishment inside the Tomb of Departed Souls, using it to frighten the Beiqi Clan ancestors and challenge Que’er’s belief that heaven rejected the Demon Race. After he began telling Que’er about a supposedly mighty demon brother, the ancestors gathered around them and spoke with reason.

• Yang Zhen endured the lightning of Heavenly Punishment and chased the Beiqi Clan ancestors’ departed souls through the Tomb of Departed Souls.
• The ancestors panicked and hurled themselves at the tomb’s restrictions to escape the Heavenly Punishment, while Que’er realized their traditions had harmed the Beiqi Clan.
• Yang Zhen opened the Sixth Dragon Elephant, endured the remaining punishment, and told Que’er that the Beiqi Clan’s own actions—not heaven—had brought it to ruin.
• Que’er argued that humans were favored by heaven, so Yang Zhen invented a powerful demon brother who had overcome countless Heavenly Tribulations.
• As Yang Zhen began telling his story, the departed souls gathered around him and Que’er, and an aged voice assured them that the ancestors would not harm their clanswoman.

Yang Zhen deceived the departed souls with a story about Shameless Cat, helping the Beiqi Clan save Guo Hu’s soul before the Tomb of Departed Souls collapsed. Guo Hu taught Yang Zhen about refining the Heart of Heaven and Earth, leaving Yang Zhen determined to subdue it despite learning that he needed Dao Entry first.

• Yang Zhen convinced the departed souls that his brother, Shameless Cat, was a mighty Demon Race expert from the distant past.
• The Beiqi ancestors chose Guo Hu to survive, and they used their secret technique to solidify his soul as the others prepared to vanish.
• Que'er reunited with Guo Hu, and he promised to help keep the Beiqi Clan’s descendants in line and end the Tomb of Departed Souls.
• Guo Hu explained the dangers of refining the Heart of Heaven and Earth, and Yang Zhen claimed he had come only to save Que'er.
• Guo Hu revealed that only someone who had achieved Dao Entry could refine the Heart of Heaven and Earth, and Yang Zhen resolved to beat it into submission.

Yang Zhen entered the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison to seek the Heart of Heaven and Earth, but the force of Heaven and Earth Rejection overwhelmed him. The prison erupted across the Tomb of Departed Souls, leaving cultivators unable to approach as two graceful figures appeared above it.

• Guo Hu and Que'er warned Yang Zhen that the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison held the Heart of Heaven and Earth and that no one from the Beiqi Clan had ever reached it.
• Yang Zhen leaped into the prison, was scorched and struck down, and Guo Hu and Que'er left believing he had died.
• After they departed, Yang Zhen rose and realized that a terrifying will of Heaven and Earth had rejected him and left him feeling powerless.
• Hundreds of Saint-level restrictions erupted as the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison unleashed destruction across the Tomb of Departed Souls, and human and Demon Race cultivators stopped fighting in alarm.
• Duan Sihai accused Pikachu of setting off the Tomb of Departed Souls, but Pikachu said the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison had erupted and challenged them to claim the Heart of Heaven and Earth.
• Two graceful figures appeared in midair above the prison, and the woman in white swung her moonlit sword.

Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er tried to enter the erupting Thunder Marsh Fire Prison to find Yang Zhen, while observers identified him as the one they sought. After Guo Hu and Que'er told them Yang Zhen had died while refining the Heart of Heaven and Earth, both women unleashed their extraordinary powers and insisted he could not be dead.

• Duan Sihai and Li Cangxu realized Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er were entering the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison to find Yang Zhen.
• Guo Hu and Que'er emerged from the prison unharmed, and Guo Hu confirmed Yang Zhen had sent him to find the women.
• Que'er told Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er that Yang Zhen was dead, and both women trembled and drew their Sun and Moon Twin Shadow Saint Weapons.
• Hua Youyue revealed her power of Momentum, while Han Yan'er released Dao Intent that filled the sky with stars.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er rejected Guo Hu's warning and insisted Yang Zhen could not be dead.

Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er refused to believe Yang Zhen was dead, but Guo Hu and Que'er confirmed he had perished in the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison. Hua Youyue tried to enter the prison, and the chapter ended with Pikachu identifying himself as the Beiqi Clan's ancestor before Guo Hu struck him down.

• Guo Hu and Que'er told Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er that Yang Zhen had been reduced to ashes in the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison.
• Duan Sihai explained Yang Zhen's extraordinary abilities to Senior Bai, who learned that Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er had both used Yang Zhen to achieve Dao Entry.
• Hua Youyue approached the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison, but Guo Hu blocked her and warned her not to risk herself.
• Hua Youyue repeatedly asked Guo Hu to step aside as her dangerous power grew stronger.
• Pikachu confronted Hua Youyue and declared she could not enter, then prostrated himself before Guo Hu and called him their ancestor; Guo Hu slapped Pikachu down.

Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er tried to reach Yang Zhen at the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison, but a devastating storm of lightning and fire erupted around it. Yang Zhen appeared in the sky, enduring the heavenly punishment, while Guo Hu recognized Shameless Cat and treated him as a revered Demon Race senior.

• Guo Hu revived thanks to Yang Zhen and ordered the Beiqi Clan to stop Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er from entering the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison.
• Hua Youyue revealed her grasp of the power of force, and Han Yan'er displayed the Star Calculation Technique as they asked Guo Hu where Yang Zhen was.
• A vast vortex of lightning and fire formed over the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison, and Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er recognized Yang Zhen standing within the storm.
• The watching cultivators cheered Yang Zhen as he endured the heavenly punishment, while Han Yan'er, Li Cangxu, and Hua Youyue urged him to survive.
• Guo Hu respectfully greeted Shameless Cat as a Demon Race senior, and he knocked Pikachu down when Pikachu insulted him.

Shameless Cat revealed that Guo Hu could become a soul cultivator and passed on a fragment of the method, earning the Beiqi Clan’s allegiance. As Guo Hu began to comprehend it, heavenly punishment struck toward Yang Zhen.

• Shameless Cat recognized Guo Hu’s condition and explained that he could cultivate as a soul cultivator.
• Duan Sihai described the ancient soul-cultivation method, astonishing the surrounding cultivators.
• Pikachu and Guo Hu knelt before Shameless Cat and pledged the Beiqi Clan’s allegiance in exchange for the method.
• Shameless Cat invoked his old connection to Ancestor Great Saint Tianyuan and passed a fragment of the method to Guo Hu.
• Guo Hu thanked Shameless Cat as a bolt of heavenly punishment descended toward Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen faced a massive Heavenly Punishment after angering heaven by hurling abuse at it. Badly injured but still alive, he flew upward with the Great Deficiency Sword and attacked the oncoming punishment, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Guo Hu, Senior Bai, Hua Youyue, and Duan Sihai discussed Yang Zhen's lack of Dao Entry and his unusual path as the Heavenly Punishment gathered.
• Que'er revealed that Yang Zhen had hurled abuse at heaven to draw down the power of Heavenly Punishment, and Shameless Cat urged him to hold on.
• A giant palm of lightning struck Yang Zhen and crashed into the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison, shaking the battlefield.
• Yang Zhen shot back into the sky with the Great Deficiency Sword, and Duan Sihai declared that he was fighting heaven.
• Yang Zhen roared and slashed at the Heavenly Punishment as Shameless Cat cheered him on.

Yang Zhen endured Heavenly Punishment as it took the form of a lightning Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beast, then used the Ninth Token’s movement technique to appear above it. He pointed the Heaven-Extinguishing Finger at the beast, leaving his next attack unresolved.

• Yang Zhen shattered the Heavenly Punishment lightning with the Great Deficiency Sword, provoking the Will of Heaven and Earth.
• A lightning Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beast appeared, and Yang Zhen led it in circles while recovering from his injuries.
• Guo Hu and Senior Bai explained that the beast was a manifestation of the Will of Heaven and Earth and warned that Yang Zhen would die if it caught him.
• As Yang Zhen grew slower and staggered, he suddenly vanished, then reappeared atop the beast’s head using the Ninth Token.
• Yang Zhen pointed the Heaven-Extinguishing Finger at the Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beast, making it shudder.

Yang Zhen survived the heavenly punishment in the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison, leaving the cultivators stunned as they waited for him to recover. Hua Youyue revealed that he had entered the prison to enter the Dao.

• Yang Zhen destroyed the savage beast of heaven and earth with the Heaven-Extinguishing Finger and survived the tribulation.
• Hua Youyue told Han Yan'er to cultivate while she kept watch, and Li Cangxu began cultivating under Duan Sihai's guidance.
• Shameless Cat predicted that Yang Zhen would cause another spectacle after recovering, while the others watched the dangerous Thunder Marsh Fire Prison.
• Gong Sanhe, Death Shadow, and the holy lords arrived expecting a battle, but Duan Sihai told them to wait for Yang Zhen.
• Hua Youyue confirmed that Yang Zhen had entered the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison and said he was going to enter the Dao.

Yang Zhen began attempting Dao Entry in the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison, wielding the Qi of One Purity as the will of heaven and earth crushed him. When a ferocious beast of heaven and earth appeared, he taunted it—only for a second beast to emerge.

• Hua Youyue said Yang Zhen was attempting Dao Entry, and his sudden rise into the air startled everyone.
• Yang Zhen produced the Qi of One Purity, revealing that he had entered the Heavenly Secret Lock and drawing the crowd’s attention.
• The Qi of One Purity enveloped Yang Zhen in azure light as he endured the overwhelming will of heaven and earth.
• Yang Zhen challenged the heavens to strike again, and a ferocious beast of heaven and earth appeared.
• Yang Zhen laughed at the beast, claiming he had already killed one, but another fire-wreathed beast appeared and left him crying that the heavens were bullying him.

Yang Zhen faced two Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beasts as the Will of Heaven and Earth sealed Thunder Marsh Fire Prison, then risked his life to unlock the seventh dragon elephant. He survived their attack and began entering the Dao, though Death Shadow noticed that something was wrong with his condition.

• The Will of Heaven and Earth erupted around Thunder Marsh Fire Prison, trapping Yang Zhen inside with two Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beasts.
• Yang Zhen absorbed vast amounts of heavenly and earthly primal Qi and sat cross-legged as the beasts charged at him.
• Yang Zhen roared as he opened the seventh dragon elephant, unleashing a powerful surge of Qi when the beasts struck.
• Hua Youyue and the others feared Yang Zhen had died, while Shameless Cat admitted no one could enter the forbidden zone to reach him.
• Hua Youyue realized Yang Zhen was still alive, and the onlookers saw him sitting bare-chested in midair as he entered the Dao.
• Senior Bai celebrated Yang Zhen's survival, but Death Shadow warned that Yang Zhen's condition seemed wrong.

Yang Zhen failed to grasp any of the three thousand great Daos as heaven and earth changed around him, and Hua Youyue realized that no Dao in the world belonged to him. Yang Zhen rejected despair and declared that he would create a Dao of his own, triggering a violent upheaval in the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison.

• Yang Zhen attempted Dao Entry amid the changes in heaven and earth but could not sense any Dao that belonged to him.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er prepared to become Yang Zhen's Dao protector as the Qi of One Purity around him began to dissipate.
• Hua Youyue told everyone that there was no Dao for Yang Zhen in this world.
• Yang Zhen declared that he would create a Dao belonging to him alone.
• Heaven and earth exploded, and the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison erupted into chaos.