Recaps

Yang Zhen and the others discussed the Demon God Territory, the vanished Demon Emperor Guards, and the ancient bronze trees. Shameless Cat revealed that he had once entered an ancient bronze hall, and the group found one beyond the tree, where Yang Zhen sensed something was wrong.

• Hua Youyue remembered that the ancient bronze tree was called a Demon God Tree, and Yang Zhen asked the others about the Demon Emperor Guards.
• The Jade Pool Holy Lord described the Demon God Territory and the disappearance of its Demon God and three Great Emperors, while Hua Youyue questioned whether Yang Zhen had seen the legendary guards.
• Shameless Cat said he had once entered an ancient bronze hall but had been blasted out on the first floor, then explained that the bronze trees had a mysterious origin connected to the Demon God Territory.
• Yang Zhen led the group around the ancient bronze tree, and they discovered an enormous bronze mountain containing an ancient bronze hall.
• Yang Zhen stared at the hall and sensed that something was strange.

Yang Zhen discovered that the ancient bronze palace's markings concealed a Heavenly Palace True Rune and considered refining it to make entering easier. Shameless Cat recognized what Yang Zhen had found, and Yang Zhen prepared to try peeling the rune from the doors.

• Yang Zhen noticed something unusual about the markings on the ancient bronze palace, and Shameless Cat explained that they inflicted heavenly might on anyone trying to enter.
• The cultivators urged Yang Zhen not to force his way through, then mistook his intent stare at the doors for a desire to gnaw on them.
• Yang Zhen mocked Shameless Cat for failing to recognize the treasure and hinted that he might refine the palace itself.
• Shameless Cat spotted what looked like a Heavenly Palace True Rune on the doors and asked whether Yang Zhen could peel it off.
• Yang Zhen admitted he was not very confident but said he would give it a try.

Yang Zhen prepared to refine the Heavenly Palace True Rune inscribed on the ancient bronze hall’s doors while the gathered cultivators agreed to wait outside. When he touched the doors, a terrifying heavenly might erupted and swept across the bronze mountain.

• Jade Pool Holy Lord asked Yang Zhen whether the Heavenly Palace True Rune was one of the Nine Runes of Heaven and Earth, and Yang Zhen confirmed it.
• Yang Zhen hesitated to touch the bronze doors because triggering their restrictions might endanger everyone and cause changes to the ancient bronze tree.
• The gathered cultivators promised to wait outside the hall until Yang Zhen had finished refining the rune, and Yang Zhen theatrically agreed to proceed for their sake.
• Yang Zhen placed both hands on the bronze doors, triggering a powerful heavenly might that stunned everyone.

Yang Zhen opened the ancient bronze hall and revealed the Heavenly Palace True Rune, but a dangerous force from inside left him unable to move. The others were drawn toward the hall as Yang Zhen realized the situation had turned dire.

• Yang Zhen resisted the bronze door’s power and drew the Weapon Character Instruction on its surface.
• The patterns on the opened door formed the Heavenly Palace True Rune in the sky.
• Yang Zhen revealed his Desolate Heaven True Rune and prepared to suppress and refine the Heavenly Palace True Rune.
• World-destroying green Qi erupted from the hall, and the bronze door opened as its force swept over everyone.
• Yang Zhen floated motionless in midair while the others struggled against the hall’s pull and called out to him.

Yang Zhen and the others discovered a vast hidden world behind the ancient bronze hall, where the Heavenly Palace True Rune inside Yang Zhen began battling the Desolate Heaven True Rune. As golden-armored Demon Emperor Guards arrived, Yang Zhen lost consciousness and found himself in a strange space where the Desolate Heaven True Rune had become a dragon and the Gen Metal True Rune appeared as a sword.

• Yang Zhen and the others realized the world behind the ancient bronze hall might be a Sealed Land, though the Jade Pool Holy Lord had never heard of it.
• The Heavenly Palace True Rune surged inside Yang Zhen, and he used the Desolate Heaven True Rune to fight it within his body.
• The Jade Pool Holy Lord and the others spotted forty or fifty Heavenly Cycle Realm experts approaching from the north in golden armor, led by a young woman who identified their location as the Demon God Territory.
• Yang Zhen lost consciousness after looking toward the approaching guards and awoke in a pitch-black space filled with purple lightning.
• Yang Zhen watched the Desolate Heaven True Rune take the form of a dragon and battle the lightning, then discovered that the object in his hand was the Gen Metal True Rune.

Yang Zhen watched the Gen Metal, Desolate Heaven, and Heavenly Palace True Runes fight inside his body while he lay unconscious outside. Yue Ling recognized his unusual condition and invited him and the others to the Demon Cloud Palace, where she wondered which visitor was the predicted Heavenly Palace Star.

• Inside his body, Yang Zhen realized the three Heaven and Earth True Runes were battling, then sat down to comprehend their power as he watched.
• Yue Ling suspected Yang Zhen had comprehended the Heavenly Palace True Rune on the bronze door and approached his unconscious body despite Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er’s hostility.
• Yue Ling touched Yang Zhen’s forehead with a cyan light, then recoiled in shock and ordered someone to carry him to the Demon Cloud Palace.
• Yue Ling introduced herself and welcomed Hua Youyue, Han Yan'er, Yao Lianxing, and the others as guests in the Demon God Territory.
• As Yang Zhen was carried away, Yue Ling recalled a clan elder’s prediction of a demon star and a Heavenly Palace Star, and wondered which visitor was the latter.

Yang Zhen woke after refining the Heavenly Palace True Rune and discovered he was in the Demon God Territory. Shameless Cat explained the territory’s history and showed him a potent fruit, which Yang Zhen immediately wanted to cultivate for profit.

• Yang Zhen woke, summoned the Heavenly Palace True Rune, and recalled how it and the other two runes had subdued it while he was unconscious.
• Yang Zhen noticed the strange jade bed and surroundings, then recognized the golden armor as belonging to the Demon Emperor Guards.
• Shameless Cat entered and told Yang Zhen that the bronze world was the Demon God Territory, an inheritance whose current Demon God was a Celestial Phenomenon Realm expert still in seclusion.
• Shameless Cat gave Yang Zhen a Vermilion Dragon Saliva Fruit and explained that eating one provided energy equivalent to more than a hundred purple crystals.
• Yang Zhen ate the fruit and declared he wanted to learn how to grow it, while Shameless Cat began considering a plan.

Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that the Demon God Territory was giving away powerful cultivation methods, though he suspected the methods could provoke another Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth. He suggested Yang Zhen might be the Person of the Heavenly Palace and offered to take him to find out.

• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that people from across the cultivation world had come to seek the Demon God Territory's cultivation methods.
• Yang Zhen hurried out to obtain a method, claiming he wanted to expose the Demon God Territory's motives.
• Shameless Cat warned Yang Zhen that the method was heaven-defying and might be connected to the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.
• Yang Zhen asked how to get the method, and Shameless Cat suggested he could become the Person of the Heavenly Palace because he had refined the Heavenly Palace True Rune.
• Shameless Cat invited Yang Zhen to come with him and see the world.

Yang Zhen toured the Demon God Territory and learned that it was welcoming cultivators and sharing its cultivation resources. Holy Lord Yao revealed that the territory planned to recruit young disciples, leaving Yang Zhen wary of its intentions.

• Yang Zhen followed Shameless Cat through a vast hall and saw the artificial Bronze Mountain, whose formations gathered primal Qi.
• Shameless Cat explained that cultivators from across the continents were arriving at the Demon God Territory, and Yang Zhen asked about its heaven-defying cultivation methods.
• Yang Zhen reunited with Han Yan'er, Hua Youyue, and Holy Lord Yao, who invited him to hear what had happened while he slept.
• At a teahouse, Holy Lord Yao told Yang Zhen that the Demon God Territory had opened its resources and cultivation methods to visitors.
• Holy Lord Yao revealed that the Demon God Territory intended to accept any young person who met its requirements as a disciple.

Yang Zhen learned that the Demon God Territory would host an open Dao discourse where winners could choose one of its Cultivation Methods, but he had no intention of debating the Central Emperor. When Shameless Cat revealed that the prize for defeating the Central Emperor was the Half-Step Emperor Method called the Heaven-Seizing Creation Instruction, Yang Zhen overturned the tea stall in shock.

• Holy Lord Yao and Hua Youyue told Yang Zhen that the Central Emperor would give a Dao discourse in half a month and that winners of Dao debates could choose a Demon God Territory Cultivation Method.
• Yang Zhen spent the next few days in the Demon God Territory, where people discussed his exploits and the Demon Emperor Guards’ power.
• Yang Zhen recognized Long Legs leading a patrol of Demon Emperor Guards, but she passed without stopping to speak with him.
• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen to think about defeating the Central Emperor in a Dao debate, and Yang Zhen insisted he had no intention of doing so.
• Shameless Cat revealed that defeating the Central Emperor could earn the Heaven-Seizing Creation Instruction, a Half-Step Emperor Method, and Yang Zhen jumped up and overturned the tea stall in shock.

Yang Zhen learned that the Demon God Territory might be researching immortality by using cultivators as test subjects. He was left wondering how much its disciples knew about the heaven-defying experiments.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat discussed the Demon God Territory, the half-step imperial art, and the mysterious abyss, while Yang Zhen decided not to join the Dao debate.
• Over the next ten days, Yang Zhen spent time with Yue Ling, Hua Youyue, and Han Yan'er, while Little Dao Addict seemed distracted.
• Yue Ling told Yang Zhen that Nanny Tie had died and insisted that someone would one day achieve eternal life.
• Yue Ling's words led Yang Zhen to suspect that the Demon God Territory was researching immortality and using cultivators as test subjects.
• Yang Zhen connected the bronze mountains, trees, abyss, and heaven-defying cultivation methods to the Demon God Territory's experiments and wondered whether Yue Ling knew about them.

Yang Zhen prepared for the Dao proclamation gathering while urging Han Yan'er to create her own Dao and declining to debate. At the gathering, he reunited with Sir and met the young Yuan Hao, whose challenge and prodigious talent made Yang Zhen suspect trouble.

• Yang Zhen secretly investigated whether the Demon God Territory was acting against heaven as cultivators gathered for the upcoming Dao proclamation.
• Han Yan'er urged Yang Zhen to debate the Dao, but he told her to create her own Dao and refused to participate.
• Yang Zhen reunited with Sir in the Demon God Territory and greeted the Spirit Transformation Realm experts who had accompanied him from the East Sea.
• Yuan Hao approached Yang Zhen and suggested they spar, while Sir and the elders reacted to the exchange.
• An old woman warned Yuan Hao to show respect and pointed out that Yang Zhen had made his name before Yuan Hao began cultivating, prompting Yang Zhen to suspect an unfriendly challenge.

Yang Zhen traded barbs with Yuan Hao, who challenged him to a Dao debate while claiming the inheritance of an East Sea Great Emperor. Yang Zhen released a trace of Dao Rhyme that made Yuan Hao spit blood, then left him terrified and wondering what had happened.

• Yuan Hao approached Yang Zhen and called him Senior, and Yang Zhen mocked him as a young man destined to wash up on the beach.
• The crowd revealed that Yuan Hao had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm in just over a year and had comprehended a Great Emperor's Dao.
• Yuan Hao challenged Yang Zhen to debate the Dao, and a tall young woman disparaged Yang Zhen's comprehension.
• Yang Zhen recognized that Yuan Hao and his companions were provoking him, then warned Yuan Hao against rising on someone else's shoulders.
• Yang Zhen released a trace of Dao Rhyme, causing Yuan Hao to vomit blood and stagger back in terror.

Yang Zhen used a needle-like strand of Dao Rhyme to defeat Yuan Hao, and Shameless Cat identified the method as an Emperor Technique. Rumors spread across the Western Region that Yang Zhen would challenge the Central Emperor at the upcoming Dao gathering.

• Yang Zhen calmly walked away after a gust of his Dao Rhyme left Yuan Hao pale and coughing up blood.
• Yuan Hao told his master that Yang Zhen's Dao Rhyme had pierced his defenses as if they were absent.
• Yang Zhen explained to Shameless Cat that he had condensed his Dao Rhyme into a needle and struck Yuan Hao with it.
• Shameless Cat called Yang Zhen's method an Emperor Technique, and the old gentleman said Yang Zhen had surpassed his level.
• Two days later, rumors spread through the Western Region that Yang Zhen could control Dao Rhyme and would challenge the Central Emperor at the Dao gathering.

Yang Zhen learned that rumors had spread that he planned to challenge the Central Emperor at the Grand Dao Assembly, apparently because Yuan Hao had revealed his ability to shape Dao Rhyme into a needle. As more ancient Celestial Phenomenon Realm experts were reported to be gathering, Yang Zhen suspected they had awakened from slumber like the Three Emperors.

• Yang Zhen denied planning to challenge the Central Emperor, while Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken urged him to take the man on.
• Han Yan'er told Yang Zhen that what she had said still stood, then hurried away; Yang Zhen took this as a reason to accept a possible Dao debate if the Central Emperor approached him.
• Yue Ling told Yang Zhen that rumors claimed he could condense Dao Rhyme into a needle and intended to use it against the Central Emperor.
• Yang Zhen, Shameless Cat, and Flirtatious Chicken suspected Yuan Hao had spread the rumors after learning about Yang Zhen's Dao Rhyme technique.
• Yue Ling warned Yang Zhen that powerful seniors, including Old Man Vast Sea, Old Man Leaping Dragon, and Heavenly Venerable Shangwu, would attend the Grand Dao Assembly.
• Yang Zhen and his companions realized the newly mentioned experts were likely ancient figures who had awakened from slumber, like the Three Emperors.

Yang Zhen considered the mystery of ancient experts waking from long slumber, then cultivated and rapidly approached a breakthrough. In the Demon God Hall, the Central Emperor discussed Yang Zhen and the Demon God Territory’s plans with Old Man Leaping Dragon and Heavenly Venerable Shangwu, ending with the revelation that Demon Puppet Saliva had appeared again.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat discussed the costs of sleeping for tens of thousands of years, while the Golden Crow agreed that Shameless Cat’s slumber had been different.
• Yang Zhen recalled Ling Feng’s connection to ancient presences and wondered whether the cultivation world’s hidden history was linked to him or the blue planet.
• Yang Zhen cultivated in seclusion for two days and advanced to the brink of the Heavenly Cycle Realm, with enough understanding to reach the Celestial Phenomenon Realm.
• The Central Emperor told Old Man Leaping Dragon and Heavenly Venerable Shangwu that Yang Zhen might be the Person of the Heavenly Palace because he had comprehended the Heavenly Palace True Rune.
• The Central Emperor presented a jade box to Old Man Leaping Dragon and Heavenly Venerable Shangwu, who recognized its contents as Demon Puppet Saliva and reacted in shock.

The Central Emperor revealed that Demon Puppet Saliva from thirty thousand years ago could revive a Demon Puppet, confirming that the creatures may have evolved and remain a hidden threat. He continued distributing heaven-defying cultivation methods through the Grand Dao Assembly, while Yang Zhen suspected the Demon God Territory was pursuing a dangerous plan.

• The Central Emperor shattered the jade box, and a black Demon Puppet emerged from the Demon Puppet Saliva before his Dao Rhyme destroyed it.
• The Central Emperor told Old Man Leaping Dragon and Heavenly Venerable Shangwu that the Demon Puppets seemed to have evolved and might still endanger the cultivation world.
• Old Man Leaping Dragon and Heavenly Venerable Shangwu understood that the Central Emperor was using the turmoil of changing heaven and earth to turn heaven's wrath against the Demon Puppets.
• The Central Emperor asked Jueying whether they had acted wrongly, then praised Yang Zhen's ability to control Dao Rhyme and ordered Jueying to invite Master Su.
• Yang Zhen examined a cultivation method in a teahouse and warned Shameless Cat that the Demon God Territory's mass distribution of such methods suggested a major, dangerous scheme.

Yang Zhen sensed a strange presence gathering as he and his companions headed to the Grand Dao Assembly, then released Dao Rhyme among the crowd to investigate. He identified the presence as corpse puppets.

• Han Yan'er woke Yang Zhen and urged him to hurry to the Grand Dao Assembly, and he warned her not to lose her way by following others' Dao.
• Yang Zhen sensed an unfamiliar presence growing stronger as he, Han Yan'er, Hua Youyue, Shameless Cat, Flirtatious Chicken, and the elder approached the crowded Dao grounds.
• Yang Zhen asked Han Yan'er and Hua Youyue to guard him, then released Dao Rhyme to search for the source of the presence.
• The surrounding cultivators gathered angrily around Yang Zhen, but he opened his eyes and claimed he had fallen asleep.
• Hua Youyue asked Yang Zhen what he had discovered, and he said the presence came from corpse puppets.

Yang Zhen and his companions entered a crowded gathering, where he rushed to see a Celestial Phenomenon Realm expert. The expert recognized the Shameless Cat’s knowledge of the Heavenly Transformation Chaotic Demon Array, then sent an insolent follower flying for failing to keep a low profile.

• Yang Zhen dismissed his suspicion that a Corpse Puppet was nearby and continued inward with Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er.
• The crowd recognized Yang Zhen and made way for him as he greeted them cheerfully.
• A crowd surged toward a Celestial Phenomenon Realm expert, and Yang Zhen ran ahead to see him.
• The Shameless Cat explained that the old man’s terrifying presence came from a successful transformation caused by the Heavenly Transformation Chaotic Demon Array.
• The old man praised the Shameless Cat for remembering the array, then knocked a follower aside for insulting him and ordered him to keep a low profile.

Yang Zhen examined the old man's pain from the Heavenly Transformation Chaotic Demon Array while Shameless Cat made the Celestial Phenomenon Realm powerhouse believe they could help him. After Yang Zhen abruptly pulled away, he called the old man stupid, leaving everyone stunned and the old man furious.

• Shameless Cat impressed the old man by hinting that he could free him from the pain caused by the Heavenly Transformation Chaotic Demon Array.
• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen to examine the old man, and Yang Zhen approached and placed a hand on his vital point.
• Yang Zhen abruptly let go, alarming the crowd, who assumed he had failed to find a solution.
• The old man demanded to know whether Yang Zhen had found the cause, and Yang Zhen suddenly cursed at him for being stupid.
• The old man's face turned ashen as he demanded that Yang Zhen repeat himself.

Yang Zhen diagnosed Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels with less than a century to live because his cultivation had thrown the five elements and yin-yang out of balance. He promised there was a cure, and the chapter ended as he revealed a tiny Yin-Yang Diagram for Five Wheels to place in his Dantian.

• Yang Zhen explained that Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels's cultivation had made his body rigid, leaving him only ninety-six years to live.
• The Clan Preceptor confirmed Yang Zhen's diagnosis, astonishing the Central Emperor and the other experts.
• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels asked Yang Zhen to cure him and pledged his service for a hundred years in return.
• Yang Zhen explained that Five Wheels could recover by guiding his yin and yang qi properly and cultivating a metal-based method.
• Yang Zhen formed a thumbnail-sized Yin-Yang Diagram and told Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels to open a space in his Dantian for it.

Yang Zhen placed a Yin-Yang Diagram inside Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels to stabilize the dangerous Qi within him. As Five Wheels’ power erupted, five radiant wheels formed overhead, and he realized he had finally succeeded in his cultivation.

• Yang Zhen told Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels the Yin-Yang Diagram would protect his life, despite the crowd’s doubts.
• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels chose to trust Yang Zhen and let him place the diagram inside his body.
• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels turned pale and released a violent wave of Qi, forcing the Central Emperor and the others to retreat.
• Yang Zhen asked whether Five Wheels had collected any metal-element Cultivation Methods, prompting golden light and powerful metal-element Qi to surge from him.
• Five streams of light formed into spinning wheels around a radiant Yin-Yang Diagram, and Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels rejoiced that he had finally succeeded.

Yang Zhen’s Yin-Yang Diagram helped Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels manifest a living saintly phenomenon and greatly increase his strength. The Central Emperor honored Yang Zhen by inviting him to sit on the Dao platform at the upcoming Grand Dao Assembly.

• Yang Zhen’s Yin-Yang Diagram united Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels’ Yin, Yang, and Five Elements Qi, causing a powerful celestial phenomenon to form.
• Shameless Cat explained that the phenomenon had developed a spirit because its powers formed a natural whole.
• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels absorbed the phenomenon and promised to serve Yang Zhen for a hundred years.
• Yang Zhen downplayed the promise, while Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels insisted he would prove useful when needed.
• The Central Emperor praised Yang Zhen and invited him to join the Celestial Phenomenon Realm experts on the Dao platform.

Yang Zhen accepted the Central Emperor’s invitation to join the Dao platform after realizing Han Yan'er wanted him to go. He then asked to bring two family members, leaving the crowd stunned as Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er stepped forward alongside Flirtatious Chicken and Shameless Cat.

• The Central Emperor invited Yang Zhen onto the Dao platform, and the crowd argued over whether a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator belonged there.
• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels explained that the Grand Dao Assembly could influence the Cultivation World, and Yang Zhen realized the platform would make him famous.
• Yang Zhen saw Han Yan'er's eager gaze and accepted the invitation, saying he did not want to refuse the Central Emperor's kindness.
• Yang Zhen asked whether he could bring two family members, provoking an uproar among the onlookers.
• The crowd parted to reveal Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er, with Flirtatious Chicken and Shameless Cat beside them.

Yang Zhen brought Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er onto the Dao platform at the Grand Dao Assembly, ignoring the crowd’s objections and warning them with his Shadow Clones. As Yuan Hao prepared to challenge Han Yan'er to embarrass Yang Zhen, Yang Zhen reassured her that he would stand by her.

• The Central Emperor agreed to let Yang Zhen bring Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er onto the Dao platform, and Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken followed them.
• Onlookers questioned Han Yan'er's right to be there, so Yang Zhen offered to punish the critics and then filled the air with Shadow Clones to silence them.
• Yang Zhen noticed a trace of a corpse puppet's presence at the Dao grounds and suspected that the Grand Dao Assembly concealed another purpose.
• Yuan Hao's master suggested that Han Yan'er would fail to impress at the assembly, and Yuan Hao decided to seek a chance to debate the Dao with her and disgrace Yang Zhen.
• Han Yan'er wondered whether she should have joined the platform, but Yang Zhen reassured her and she insisted that she was not afraid.