Recaps

Ding Dian arrived and calmed Elder Hu’s burning divine soul before ordering him to watch Heavenly Pivot Cliff for thirty years. After declaring that Yang Zhen must die, Ding Dian faced Yang Zhen, who challenged him to fight and said he would show his might.

• Ding Dian descended with three others, overwhelming the onlookers with his Dao Rhyme and presence.
• Ding Dian extinguished the fire on Elder Hu’s divine soul and ordered him to watch at Heavenly Pivot Cliff for thirty years.
• Ding Dian told the Jade Pool Holy Lord that he had come to see Yang Zhen, then declared that Yang Zhen must die today.
• Yang Zhen challenged Ding Dian to fight and urged Holy Lord Yao to take the others away.
• Ding Dian erupted with his full presence as Yang Zhen prepared to show his might.

Ding Dian’s overwhelming presence convinced everyone that Yang Zhen could not stand against him, but Yang Zhen revealed a Saint Spirit within the Great Deficiency Sword and launched an attack. The chapter ended as he charged at Ding Dian, challenging him to take his sword.

• The Jade Pool Holy Lord admitted he had only a fifty percent chance of avoiding defeat against Ding Dian, while Yang Zhen felt suppressed by Ding Dian’s realm.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er summoned their Saint Weapons as the onlookers retreated and predicted Yang Zhen’s death.
• Ding Dian said Yang Zhen would surely die, but Yang Zhen mocked Elder Hu and dismissed Ding Dian’s confidence in his own State of Mind.
• Yang Zhen dragged the Great Deficiency Sword toward Ding Dian and unleashed its dark power, revealing a roaring Saint Spirit within it.
• Yang Zhen leaped into the air and charged at Ding Dian, shouting, “Old man, take my sword!”

Yang Zhen charged Ding Dian, the Heavenly Pivot Holy Lord, and surprised the onlookers by unleashing the Great Deficiency Sword and the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice. He drove Ding Dian backward with his Chaotic Cloak Swordsmanship, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Yang Zhen rushed to face Ding Dian, while Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er relaxed because they trusted him to handle the danger.
• Ding Dian stopped an attendant from attacking Yang Zhen and repelled Yang Zhen's first strike with a casual push, blasting him backward.
• Yang Zhen recognized Ding Dian's power, then charged again with the Great Deficiency Sword before abruptly leaping away and activating Desolate Heaven Sacrifice.
• Ding Dian summoned a longsword as Yang Zhen gathered primal Qi and launched his Chaotic Cloak Swordsmanship from above.
• Yang Zhen's repeated strikes paralyzed Ding Dian and forced the Heavenly Pivot Holy Lord to retreat, astonishing the onlookers.

Yang Zhen broke free of Ding Dian’s overwhelming assault with a mysterious sword strike after Ding Dian used the Sparrow Feather Mirror and unleashed the Great Sun Blazing Yang Sword. The chapter ended as Yang Zhen’s black sword wave crashed toward Ding Dian, whose followers cried out to warn him.

• Ding Dian shattered the Sparrow Feather Mirror to interrupt Yang Zhen’s Chaotic Cloak Swordsmanship and send him flying.
• Ding Dian trapped Yang Zhen in his Dao Rhyme and attacked with the Great Sun Blazing Yang Sword.
• Yang Zhen raised the Great Deficiency Sword and revealed a terrifying sword technique that stunned Ding Dian and the sword cultivators watching.
• Yang Zhen brought down the Great Deficiency Sword, sending a black wave crashing into Ding Dian’s sword strike.
• Ding Dian’s followers shouted for him to watch out as Yang Zhen’s attack bore down on him.

Yang Zhen's devastating sword strike left Ding Dian injured but alive, and Ding Dian demanded that Yang hand over his sword instruction. Yang then used the Lin Character Instruction to unleash astonishing speed and power, punching Ding Dian into the ground.

• Yang Zhen unleashed a terrifying sword strike, and Ding Dian countered with a sword curtain that shattered in the collision.
• Ding Dian survived the blast and offered to spare Yang if he surrendered his sword instruction, while pointing out that Yang could not use the strike again.
• Yang revealed that Ding Dian was injured, and the battered Ding Dian admitted it but claimed he could still kill Yang.
• Yang put away the Great Deficiency Sword, invoked the Lin Character Instruction, and punched Ding Dian into the ground.
• Yang was shocked by the power of the Lin Character Instruction combined with the Dragon Elephant Prison-Suppressing Physique, and concluded Ding Dian was sure to die.

Yang Zhen defeated Ding Dian with the Nine-Character Mantra, but the Fighting Character Instruction's backlash left him gravely weakened as the Jade Pool Holy Land drove off the Heavenly Pivot Holy Land. After recovering, Yang Zhen woke to Hua Youyue tending to him, while the Third Holy Maiden opened her eyes in the Nine Realms.

• Yang Zhen overwhelmed Ding Dian with the Lin Character Instruction, then used the Bing Character Instruction to pierce him with a golden blade.
• Ding Dian destroyed his body and tried to flee as a soul, but Yang Zhen suffered the Fighting Character Instruction's backlash before he could finish him off.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er caught Yang Zhen, and the Jade Pool Holy Lord ordered the Jade Pool Holy Land to kill the intruders.
• The Heavenly Pivot Holy Land fled, and nearly all its people who had come to Jade Pool died in the battle.
• Yang Zhen woke from his long sleep to find Hua Youyue wiping his body, then pulled her toward him as Han Yan'er remained awake next door.
• The Third Holy Maiden opened her eyes in the Nine Realms.

Yang Zhen woke after recovering from his injuries and learned that his cultivation had advanced to the peak of the Heaven Realm. The Jade Pool Holy Lord revealed that Yang Zhen had slept for a month and said someone wanted to see him.

• Hua Youyue asked Yang Zhen to teach her a body-tempering method, so he showed her yoga poses.
• Yang Zhen discovered that he had reached the Heaven Realm Peak and set out to meet the Jade Pool Holy Lord.
• Han Yan'er secretly watched Yang Zhen leave, then followed Hua Youyue to prepare to revive the Golden Crow.
• The Jade Pool Holy Lord congratulated Yang Zhen on his recovery and described the heavenly phenomenon that had appeared the night before.
• Yang Zhen learned that he had been asleep for a month and asked what had happened while he was unconscious.
• The Jade Pool Holy Lord told Yang Zhen that someone wanted to see him.

Yang Zhen learned that a mysterious rogue cultivator wanted to meet him in the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang, and the Jade Pool Holy Lord warned him that she had destroyed those who offended her. Yang Zhen arrived with Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er to find a crowd gathered outside the valley, where an aged voice greeted him from within.

• The Jade Pool Holy Lord told Yang Zhen that a reclusive rogue cultivator at the Ninth Heaven of the Heavenly Cycle Realm had come looking for him, and warned that her past enemies had vanished along with the sects that offended her.
• Yang Zhen agreed to meet the senior, then learned that many people had gathered near the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang because they were curious about his plan to resurrect a spirit beast.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er warned Yang Zhen to be careful amid the crowd, while Yang Zhen joked about his celebrity status and reflected on the women’s yoga practice.
• Yang Zhen and his companions reached the dangerous valley, where onlookers speculated about the senior waiting for him.
• An aged voice from inside the valley called out, “You're here!”

Yang Zhen questioned a legendary woman in the valley about what she could teach Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er, then learned she was dying and had unresolved regrets. Though he first asked if he could refuse to meet her, he ended by asking how he could help.

• The woman in the valley praised Yang Zhen's power and invited Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er to stay with her for a few days.
• Yang Zhen asked what the woman could teach the two women, alarming the crowd with his bluntness.
• The woman said she was clinging to the last remnants of her life and asked Yang Zhen to meet her.
• Yang Zhen asked whether she was dying, then briefly asked if he could refuse her invitation.
• Yang Zhen changed course and asked the woman how he could help her.

Yang Zhen entered the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang and met the dying old woman Ling Feng, who tested his views on heaven and urged him to charge ahead without fear. He left still puzzled by her purpose, but with her permission to use the land for his plans.

• Yang Zhen entered the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang, balanced the turbulent yin and yang Qi in his body, and followed Ling Feng's voice to the center.
• Ling Feng asked Yang Zhen where he came from and hinted that a change had befallen the Youzhou Continent.
• At Ling Feng's prompting, Yang Zhen declared that heaven and earth deserved to be stabbed, but no Heavenly Punishment descended.
• Ling Feng told Yang Zhen not to fear even if he discovered the world was absurd, and urged him to charge ahead.
• Yang Zhen learned the old woman's name was Ling Feng and received her permission to use the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang before leaving.

Yang Zhen learned that the dying powerhouse in the valley was the legendary Holy Maiden Ling Feng, who had once fought and fallen in love with a famous cultivator. Ling Feng briefly regained her youthful beauty, then vanished after declaring she had no regrets, and Yang Zhen entered the valley to revive Flirtatious Chicken.

• Yang Zhen told the Jade Pool Holy Lord, Hua Youyue, Han Yan'er, and Shameless Cat that he had spoken with Senior Ling Feng, and Hua Youyue and Shameless Cat recognized her name.
• Shameless Cat explained that Holy Maiden Lingfeng had been a renowned powerhouse who fought a legendary cultivator, fell for him, and later disappeared.
• Yang Zhen said Ling Feng had appeared to be an old woman nearing death, but her voice suddenly regained its youthful strength and she emerged looking young again.
• Ling Feng glanced at Yang Zhen, vanished, and left Hua Youyue to explain that it had been her final moment of beauty.
• Yang Zhen entered the valley to revive Flirtatious Chicken, while Shameless Cat demonstrated that he could form a Taiji Diagram.

Yang Zhen set up the forbidden Samsara Heaven Formation in the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang, despite Shameless Cat warning that it stole heaven and earth’s fortune. The formation activated as Yang Zhen drove the final piece of Heaven-Scorched Wood into the ground, making the whole world tremble.

• The Jade Pool Holy Lord warned Yang Zhen not to unleash too much power inside the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang.
• Yang Zhen entered the land with Hua Youyue, Han Yan'er, and Shameless Cat, who said the place felt strangely familiar.
• Yang Zhen found where yin and yang converged, and Hua Youyue summoned a palace as the Golden Crow's soul appeared.
• Yang Zhen used the Heaven-Scorched Wood and Earth Treasury Art to form the Samsara Heaven Formation, alarming Shameless Cat.
• Yang Zhen invoked Desolate Heaven Sacrifice and drove the final piece of Heaven-Scorched Wood into the ground, causing the world to tremble.

Yang Zhen used the Samsara Heaven Formation to help Flirtatious Chicken be reborn and defy fate, with Shameless Cat providing Nine Heavens Golden Crow Essence Blood and Hua Youyue supplying Ageless Tree seeds. The formation gathered heaven and earth’s power around Flirtatious Chicken, which transformed into an enormous egg.

• Yang Zhen exhausted himself completing the Samsara Heaven Formation and declared that he would condense Flirtatious Chicken’s heavenly destiny.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er warned Yang Zhen that defying heaven was dangerous, but he said they were his family and refused to stop.
• Shameless Cat gave Yang Zhen a bead containing Nine Heavens Golden Crow Essence Blood to aid Flirtatious Chicken’s rebirth.
• Yang Zhen crushed the bead, and Flirtatious Chicken absorbed the Essence Blood and writhed as it spread through its body.
• Yang Zhen activated the Samsara Heaven Formation, used the Heaven-Scorched Wood as its hub, and added three Ageless Tree seeds from Hua Youyue.
• Flirtatious Chicken absorbed the surrounding energy and transformed into an enormous egg within the formation.

Yang Zhen activated the Samsara Heaven Formation to support the Flirtatious Chicken’s rebirth, but a green Heavenly Punishment descended toward the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang. He rushed back inside to confront it, while the Jade Pool Holy Lord recognized the lightning as a legendary form and compared Yang Zhen to a legendary figure.

• Yang Zhen activated the Samsara Heaven Formation, drawing Yin and Yang energy into the golden egg containing the Ageless Tree's seed.
• Yang Zhen left the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang as terrifying Heavenly Punishment clouds gathered, and the Jade Pool Holy Lord directed him to a nearby deadland for the tribulation.
• The Jade Pool Holy Lord ordered preparations for Yang Zhen and protection for the Flirtatious Chicken's rebirth.
• A green bolt of Heavenly Punishment struck toward the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang instead of Yang Zhen, so he rushed back inside and told Hua Youyue, Han Yan'er, and the Shameless Cat to wait outside.
• The Jade Pool Holy Lord identified the green lightning as a powerful, legendary Heavenly Punishment and said Yang Zhen resembled a legendary person in his youth.

Yang Zhen challenged the Heavenly Punishment and charged into a massive green lightning strike, protecting the golden egg containing the Golden Crow from its lightning dragons. A giant hand of heavenly might closed around him, leaving everyone wondering whether he had been crushed.

• The Jade Pool Holy Lord and the master of the Jade Holy Palace discussed the changing age and Yang Zhen's potential to alter the world.
• Yang Zhen defied the Heavenly Punishment, shattered a bolt with the Great Deficiency Sword, and challenged the heavens.
• Ling Feng watched Yang Zhen and murmured that he was alike before leaving the Jade Pool Holy Land for good.
• A mountain-sized green lightning bolt descended, and Yang Zhen charged into it alone with his sword.
• The lightning split into dragons that struck Yang Zhen and raced toward the golden egg containing the Golden Crow, but Yang Zhen intercepted them.
• Heavenly might formed a giant hand that seized and crushed Yang Zhen, shocking the onlookers.

Yang Zhen used the Fighting Character Instruction to break Heavenly Punishment’s lightning hand and protect Flirtatious Chicken’s golden egg from the tribulation. When more than a hundred Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beasts appeared, he summoned over a hundred Shadow Clones and prepared to fight them.

• Yang Zhen shattered the giant lightning hand with a golden fist formed by the Fighting Character Instruction.
• Yang Zhen challenged the tribulation clouds while guarding Flirtatious Chicken’s golden egg during its nirvana.
• Shameless Cat told the Jade Pool Holy Lord that Yang Zhen had faced Heavenly Punishment many times.
• More than a hundred Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beasts emerged and charged at Yang Zhen.
• Yang Zhen used Desolate Heaven Sacrifice and created over a hundred Shadow Clones, each empowered by the Fighting Character Instruction.
• Yang Zhen and his Shadow Clones punched toward the Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beasts.

Yang Zhen’s Shadow Clones battled the Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beasts while the Heavenly Punishment thunderclouds continued draining his power. When he charged toward the clouds and was struck back, he unleashed a brilliant radiance that the Jade Pool Holy Lord recognized as Hundred Radiances Heavenly Instant.

• Yang Zhen sent more than a hundred Shadow Clones to fight the Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beasts, astonishing the watching cultivators.
• The Jade Pool Holy Lord warned that Yang Zhen’s power was running out faster than the Heavenly Punishment thunderclouds were being depleted.
• Yang Zhen realized the beasts kept returning and charged toward the thunderclouds, while Hua Youyue stopped Han Yan'er from trying to help him.
• The thunderclouds struck Yang Zhen and nearly knocked him from the sky, but he challenged them and declared he would show off.
• Yang Zhen burst into brilliant radiance, and the Jade Pool Holy Lord exclaimed that he had used Hundred Radiances Heavenly Instant.

Yang Zhen unleashed the Hundred Radiances Heavenly Instant, used it through his Shadow Clones to destroy the Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beasts, and drove off the Heavenly Punishment thunderclouds. As the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang erupted into a vast Yin-Yang vortex, he realized the danger was not over and headed into it to save the Flirtatious Chicken.

• The Jade Pool Holy Lord and the Jade Holy Palace's palace master recognized that Yang Zhen had achieved the Hundred Radiances Heavenly Instant through the Nameless Heart Art.
• Yang Zhen surrounded every Shadow Clone with the Hundred Radiances Heavenly Instant, and the clones destroyed the Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beasts.
• Yang Zhen chased the Heavenly Punishment thunderclouds with the Great Deficiency Sword and shattered their tail before recalling his Shadow Clones.
• The Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang erupted around the golden egg, blasting Yang Zhen into a mountainside and sending Yin and Yang Qi swirling into a colossal vortex.
• Yang Zhen realized the Heavenly Punishment clouds had dispersed because an even more terrifying force was emerging, then walked toward the vortex to save the Flirtatious Chicken.

Yang Zhen prepared to enter the terrifying Yin and Yang upheaval to save the Flirtatious Chicken, while disturbances also erupted at the Heavenly Pivot Holy Land and Jade Pool Holy Land. After defending himself against cultivators who blamed him for the changes, he continued toward the Yin Qi and Yang Qi to try to control them.

• Yang Zhen refused Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er’s offer to accompany him as he prepared to enter the upheaval and save the Flirtatious Chicken.
• Violent Blood Qi erupted near the Heavenly Pivot Holy Land, and the Jade Pool Holy Lord identified it as the Heavenly Grotto’s power.
• Golden light surged from the Jade Pool Holy Land’s Nine Realms, which the Jade Pool Holy Lord said had been affected by the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang.
• When cultivators blamed Yang Zhen for the upheaval, he warned them not to complain and said he would stop the change if it threatened them.
• An old man apologized to Yang Zhen and asked him to consider the Western Region’s welfare, and Yang Zhen accepted without stopping his approach to the Yin Qi and Yang Qi.

Yang Zhen braved the eruption in the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang to find the Flirtatious Chicken, while sensing a mysterious Qi born from the clash of yin and yang. He found the Flirtatious Chicken transforming inside a black-and-white egg and, seeing it was safe for now, turned his attention to the Yin-Yang Diagram.

• Yang Zhen entered the erupting Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang, enduring its destructive waves with the Dragon-Elephant Prison-Shaking Body.
• Yang Zhen sensed a newly born Qi like the one sealed in the peerless female saint's crystal coffin and wondered whether it might bring Great Saints back into the world.
• Yang Zhen sensed the Flirtatious Chicken to the north and rushed toward it, fearing that Heavenly Punishment might claim it again.
• Yang Zhen found the Flirtatious Chicken inside the Samsara Heaven Formation, transformed into a black-and-white egg as it pecked at its shell.
• Yang Zhen left the Flirtatious Chicken to break out on its own and examined the Yin-Yang Diagram in midair.

Yang Zhen examined a mysterious, gentle Qi as Flirtatious Chicken emerged from nirvana as a gigantic Golden Crow and mastered Yin and Yang Qi. Flirtatious Chicken recognized Yang Zhen, shrank back to chicken size, and reunited with him and their companions.

• Yang Zhen sensed Yin and Yang Qi transforming into mysterious, gentle Qi and stored some of it in his Divine Sense space.
• Flirtatious Chicken erupted into the sky as a gigantic Golden Crow, scattering the mysterious Qi and displaying mastery over Yin and Yang Qi.
• Yang Zhen charged toward Flirtatious Chicken, while the Jade Pool Holy Lord feared the newly awakened Golden Crow might attack him.
• Flirtatious Chicken heard Yang Zhen and joyfully rushed to him, shrinking down and landing in his arms.
• Shameless Cat greeted Flirtatious Chicken with a smack, then fought with him as Yang Zhen reunited with Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er.

After Flirtatious Chicken was reborn with a powerful Golden Crow bloodline, a sudden upheaval scattered Yang Zhen and the others into a terrifying abyss-shrouded region. Yang Zhen reunited with Han Yan'er and learned they were in the Desolate Forbidden Zone, where the chapter left them searching for answers and facing an unknown presence.

• Flirtatious Chicken emerged from nirvana stronger than before, and the Jade Pool Holy Lord identified his Golden Crow bloodline.
• Flirtatious Chicken warned Yang Zhen to be careful just before a tremendous force hurled everyone into darkness and separated them.
• Yang Zhen landed beside an enormous abyss in a place Flirtatious Chicken called the Desolate Forbidden Zone, where his senses and True Essence were impaired.
• Yang Zhen warned nearby cultivators not to stare into the abyss, but one cultivator leaped into it and vanished.
• Yang Zhen found Han Yan'er and other cultivators, who could not use their True Essence without rapidly draining it.
• Han Yan'er told Yang Zhen she had lost sight of her elder sister and sensed a terrifying presence that she could not withstand.

Yang Zhen discovered that a mysterious Yin and Yang Qi could dissolve the dangerous Desolation Qi inside his body, but he found that the Desolation Qi returned as soon as it was cleared. He rushed toward cries and screams from behind a rocky outcrop.

• Flirtatious Chicken sensed Desolation Qi on Han Yan'er and the others, and the group began exploring the strange place.
• Yang Zhen found a tiny wisp of Desolation Qi inside himself and realized it was slowing and desolating his cells.
• Yang Zhen tried several powers to remove the wisp, but it dissolved only when he released the mysterious Qi he had encountered in the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda and the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang.
• A larger wisp of Desolation Qi appeared on Yang Zhen's spine after he cleared the first, and he realized the surrounding Qi surged toward him whenever his body was free of it.
• Yang Zhen heard cries and screams, including women's voices, from behind a nearby rocky outcrop and dashed toward them.

Yang Zhen and his companions encountered an enormous bronze tree whose inscriptions trapped nearby cultivators in a strange vision. After witnessing a squad of Demon Emperor Guards in the vision, Yang Zhen woke beside Han Yan'er and looked back at the tree.

• Yang Zhen, Han Yan'er, and the others crossed the valley and found a gigantic bronze tree covered in bones, while cultivators walked toward it and impaled themselves on its branches.
• A Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator activated the tree's glowing patterns, releasing a force that enveloped Yang Zhen and separated him from Han Yan'er and the others.
• Yang Zhen found himself in a boundless chaos-like place and sat down to refine a trace of Qi derived from the Two Qi of Yin and Yang.
• A squad of fifty or sixty golden-armored Demon Emperor Guards marched past Yang Zhen, but he could not catch up as they entered a golden hall.
• The hall, ancient tree, and strange world vanished, and Yang Zhen woke when Han Yan'er called to him.

Yang Zhen questioned whether the ancient bronze tree’s illusion had shown him a real bronze hall and prepared to investigate it. After the Jade Pool Holy Lord and the others arrived, Shameless Cat recognized the tree as something it had seen before, and Hua Youyue identified it as the Demon God Tree.

• Han Yan'er and the others told Yang Zhen that he had seemed trapped in an illusion and nearly hanged himself on the ancient bronze tree, while he realized he might have been the only one who saw something real.
• Yang Zhen said he had seen a great bronze hall behind the tree and tried to approach it, but Han Yan'er and the others warned him about the danger.
• Han Yan'er offered to accompany Yang Zhen, while Flirtatious Chicken tried to lead the way until Yang Zhen picked him up and told him to wait with Little Dao Addict.
• The Jade Pool Holy Lord arrived with Hua Youyue and the others, and Yang Zhen warned them not to stare at the tree.
• Shameless Cat said it had seen a similar ancient bronze tree before, and Hua Youyue called it the Demon God Tree.