Recaps

Yang Zhen encouraged Han Yan'er before the Grand Dao Assembly began, while the Demon God Territory raised a Heaven-Deceiving Curtain over the arena. The Central Emperor released his Dao Rhyme and Dao Resonance for everyone to contemplate, and Yang Zhen eventually joined Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken in feasting.

• Yang Zhen reassured Han Yan'er, helping her regain her confidence as they joined the others on the Dao platform.
• The Demon God Territory activated a Heaven-Deceiving Curtain, which the Central Emperor explained would prevent tribulation from harming the assembly; Yang Zhen sensed it could also unleash devastating heavenly might.
• The Central Emperor released his Dao Rhyme and Dao Resonance, and the crowd settled down to contemplate them.
• Yang Zhen found the gathering dull and went to feast with Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken.

At the Grand Dao Assembly, the Central Emperor explained that heaven and earth feared cultivators whose power could surpass its limits, encouraging the crowd to cultivate heaven-defying methods. Yang Zhen sensed a strange force connecting the attendees to the Central Emperor’s Dao Rhyme, and Shameless Cat identified it as Thought Power just as laughter rang out from the heavens.

• Yang Zhen ignored the Central Emperor’s Dao and ate the vermilion fruits while the Central Emperor explained why heaven and earth imposed Heavenly Tribulations on powerful cultivators.
• The Central Emperor released a powerful Dao Rhyme, leading many attendees to begin cultivating heaven-defying methods as Han Yan'er and Hua Youyue suspected Yang Zhen had anticipated the assembly’s purpose.
• Yang Zhen noticed faint wisps rising from the crowd and connecting with the Central Emperor’s Dao Rhyme, while Shameless Cat revealed that the force was Thought Power.
• A deafening burst of laughter suddenly rang out from the heavens before Shameless Cat could explain Thought Power to Yang Zhen.

More than a hundred powerful, intelligent beings resembling Corpse Puppets arrived at the Dao platform, where their leader revealed that the Demon God Territory planned to sacrifice Yang Zhen as a Heaven Seal to destroy the Holy Palace. Yang Zhen ignored the revelation and mocked the power needed for the sacrifice, leaving the leader stunned.

• The Central Emperor ordered the Heaven-Deceiving Curtain lowered as the newcomers descended onto the Dao platform.
• Yang Zhen recognized the newcomers’ Corpse Puppet-like presence and saw that more than a hundred of them had reached the Celestial Phenomenon Realm.
• The Central Emperor greeted the leader, who identified his faction as the Holy Sect and accused the Demon God Territory of targeting it.
• The leader explained that Yang Zhen was meant to sacrifice his divine soul as the Heaven Seal, using his grievance to unleash Ten Thunder Heavenly Punishment against the Holy Sect.
• Yang Zhen asked what kind of lousy thing required a sacrifice to reach that level, and the leader stared at him in disbelief.

Yang Zhen realized the Grand Dao Assembly concealed a trap involving the Heaven-Deceiving Curtain and a blood sacrifice, but he stayed out of the feud between the Demon God Territory and the big dark man. He left the big dark man questioning whether the Central Emperor and the others had deliberately lured him in.

• The crowd and Yuan Hao assumed Yang Zhen had gone mad for focusing on the Heaven-Deceiving Curtain instead of questioning the Demon God Territory.
• Yang Zhen sensed that the crowd’s Thought Power was strengthening the Central Emperor’s Dao Rhyme while the Central Emperor and the others remained silent.
• The big dark man offered to protect Yang Zhen from the Demon God Territory, but Yang Zhen told him to leave him out of their grudge.
• Yang Zhen said the Grand Dao Assembly’s main purpose was likely to draw the big dark man and his allies out, and he called the situation a trap because the Central Emperor and the others knew a Heaven Seal was required.

Yang Zhen questioned the Central Emperor about the Demon God Territory’s plans, then watched the Central Emperor release Emperor Rhyme for the assembly to comprehend. The Holy Palace responded by revealing the Azure Heaven Tyrant Blood method, and Yang Zhen realized that both sides were gathering Thought Power.

• Yang Zhen accused the Central Emperor of bringing him onto the platform to confuse the Holy Palace’s big man and asked what the Demon God Territory intended to do.
• The Central Emperor released Emperor Rhyme, declaring that anyone could slay a Demon Puppet and inviting the assembly to comprehend it.
• The Holy Palace big man ordered the Demon Puppets to unleash their own Dao Rhyme and announced the Azure Heaven Tyrant Blood method.
• The cultivators began cultivating the newly revealed method, while Yang Zhen noticed black threads of Thought Power flowing from them toward the giant beast in the sky.

The Demon God Territory faced the Demon Puppets as they gathered Thought Power and revealed a Half-Step Emperor Method. Feng Wuya arrived, purified the Thought Power, and confronted Mo Wu, who ordered the Demon Puppets to attack.

• The Demon Puppets released the Azure Heaven Tyrant Blood Half-Step Emperor Method, drawing the crowd into frantic cultivation and sending black Thought Power into the air.
• Heavenly Venerable Shangwu prepared to attack, but Old Man Leaping Dragon and Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels urged caution; the Central Emperor warned that the Demon God Territory might fully open the Abyss if the Demon Puppets went too far.
• Heavenly Venerable Shangwu vowed to protect the Demon God Territory and the cultivators below, while Old Man Leaping Dragon recalled the devastation the Demon Puppets had once brought upon the cultivation world.
• Feng Wuya arrived with his companions, and the Demon God Territory’s Emperor Rhyme transformed into a golden-scaled tiger that pierced the Holy Palace’s Emperor Rhyme.
• Feng Wuya purified the black Thought Power and challenged Mo Wu, who ordered more than a hundred Demon Puppets to attack using Literary Talent Qi.

Yang Zhen watched Mo Wu use the Ancient Sacred Script and the cultivators’ Thought Power to strengthen an Emperor Rhyme beast, while Feng Wuya prepared the Demon God Territory for battle. As brainwashed cultivators surged toward the platform, Yang Zhen wondered whether the golden scripture in his head could cleanse their souls.

• Yang Zhen saw the Ancient Sacred Script empower a black Emperor Rhyme beast, and Mo Wu revealed that the Demon God Territory had been outmaneuvered.
• Feng Wuya dispelled the Heaven-Deceiving Curtain’s visibility effect and ordered the Demon God Territory to prepare for battle.
• Feng Wuya called on the Central Emperor to release the abyss and remove the curtain, prompting Mo Wu to warn that everyone present would die.
• Mo Wu’s words stirred the cultivators into a frenzy, and their Thought Power gathered into the Emperor Rhyme beast as it defied the heavens.
• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that the Thought Power was brainwashing the cultivators, and Yang Zhen considered using the golden scripture in his head to cleanse their souls.

Yang Zhen stepped between the Demon God Territory and the demonized cultivators to stop Feng Wuya from opening the Abyss. He revealed the Tao Te Ching to counter Mo Wu’s Literary Talent Qi, leaving both Feng Wuya and Mo Wu shocked.

• Yang Zhen concluded that no one could escape once the Abyss opened and walked between the two sides to intervene.
• Yang Zhen stopped the charging demonized cultivators with his Shadow Clones and asked Feng Wuya to delay opening the Abyss so he could talk to them.
• The Central Emperor and Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels urged Feng Wuya to let Yang Zhen try, and Feng Wuya gave him less than the time it took to drink a cup of tea.
• Mo Wu mocked Yang Zhen and unleashed a wave of Literary Talent Qi, but Yang Zhen’s golden light swept it away.
• Yang Zhen manifested the three golden characters of “Tao Te Ching,” causing the demonized cultivators to stop and Feng Wuya and Mo Wu to cry that it was impossible.

Mo Wu used the Ancient Demonic Script to drain the souls of thousands of cultivators and turn them into Demon Puppets, forcing Feng Wuya and the venerables to prepare a desperate attack on the Heaven-Deceiving Curtain. Yang Zhen comprehended the script’s connection to the Power of Faith, countered the demonic force with golden characters, and began gathering Thought Power as the chapter ended.

• Mo Wu unleashed the Ancient Demonic Script, drawing Thought Power from the cultivators and transforming thousands into powerful Demon Puppets.
• Heavenly Venerable Shangwu and Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels set their souls ablaze, while Feng Wuya prepared to take down the Heaven-Deceiving Curtain.
• Shameless Cat urged Yang Zhen to act, and Yang Zhen announced that he had understood the Ancient Sacred Script and its relation to the Power of Faith.
• Yang Zhen released golden characters that cut through the black Qi and quieted the afflicted cultivators.
• Golden threads of Thought Power gathered around Yang Zhen, shocking Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels.

Yang Zhen rallied the cultivators’ conviction to oppose Mo Wu and unleashed a golden dragon against the Imperial Flame Beast. As the Demon God Territory’s defenders fought the Demon Puppets, Mo Wu drove the beast toward the Heaven-Deceiving Curtain, threatening to destroy it.

• Mo Wu used the Imperial Flame Beast’s power to weaken the cultivators and declared that Yang Zhen and the others would die.
• Yang Zhen urged the cultivators to chant the Tao Te Ching, gathering their conviction and strengthening his power.
• Yang Zhen invoked “Lin!” to summon a golden dragon that clashed with the Imperial Flame Beast, then attacked Mo Wu with the Great Deficiency Sword.
• Feng Wuya and Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels led the Demon God Territory’s forces in a charge against the Demon Puppets.
• Mo Wu, bloodied and enraged, sent the Imperial Flame Beast charging toward the Heaven-Deceiving Curtain, and Feng Wuya and the others rushed to stop him.

Yang Zhen shattered the Heaven-Deceiving Curtain while Mo Wu unleashed his power, triggering Ten Thunder Heavenly Punishment as Yang Zhen began breaking through to the Heavenly Cycle Realm. The chapter ended with the thunderous punishment bearing down on Yang Zhen, who taunted it to become even stronger.

• Mo Wu absorbed the power of the Demon Puppets and the Imperial Flame Beast, survived the golden dragon’s attack, and pierced the Heaven-Deceiving Curtain.
• Yang Zhen plundered primordial Qi from heaven and earth, restored his cultivation, and punched an even larger hole through the curtain.
• Yang Zhen announced that he was breaking through to the Heavenly Cycle Realm, summoning an enormous hand carrying Ten Thunder Heavenly Punishment.
• Mo Wu realized the punishment had come for Yang Zhen and laughed triumphantly, believing no one could survive it.
• Yang Zhen mocked the punishment and asked heaven and earth to increase it to fifty or a hundred thunders.

Yang Zhen fought the Ten Thunder Heavenly Punishment alone while the crowd lent him their Thought Power. As he battled the lightning, Hua Youyue protected Han Yan'er, who began comprehending the Dao, while Mo Wu prepared to threaten Yang Zhen.

• Mo Wu watched in disbelief as the giant hand of Heavenly Punishment targeted Yang Zhen instead of the Demon God Territory.
• Yang Zhen struck the lightning hand with his greatsword and continued fighting as the crowd shouted his name and sent him Thought Power.
• Hua Youyue began protecting Han Yan'er's Dao, and Han Yan'er entered a sudden Dao comprehension.
• Mo Wu ordered a fellow disciple to act, then threatened Yang Zhen with a choice between the Demon God Territory and his woman.

As Yang Zhen faced Heavenly Punishment, the Demon Puppet attacked Han Yan'er and Hua Youyue, but Hua Youyue killed him with one sword strike. Yang Zhen then erupted in fury and charged Mo Wu and the others, with the lightning giant palm pursuing him.

• Yang Zhen faced the giant hand of Heavenly Punishment while the Demon Puppet launched a surprise attack toward Han Yan'er and Hua Youyue.
• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels and the others tried to stop the Demon Puppet, but Mo Wu’s puppets held them back.
• Hua Youyue blocked the Demon Puppet’s attack and killed him with a single strike from Moon Shadow, slaying his soul.
• Yang Zhen realized Hua Youyue had easily overcome the Celestial Phenomenon Realm enemy and grew furious that the Demon Sect had targeted her and Han Yan'er.
• Yang Zhen unleashed his power, charged at Mo Wu and the others, and challenged Mo Wu to fight while the lightning giant palm followed him.

Yang Zhen charged into the battle while drawing the Ten Thunder Heavenly Punishment after him, killing Mo Wu with a Shadow Clone and a single sword strike. The lightning hand seized Yang Zhen and unleashed a storm of bolts, leaving his fate unknown as everyone fled.

• Yang Zhen rushed toward Mo Wu and the others, forcing Feng Wuya and Mo Wu to flee from the approaching Heavenly Punishment.
• Yang Zhen repeatedly charged at Mo Wu, while the lightning hand struck the ground and frightened the Demon Puppets into hiding.
• Mo Wu summoned a powerful nine-tailed demon wolf celestial phenomenon, but the lightning hand slapped it apart.
• Mo Wu unleashed a devastating sword strike, but Yang Zhen appeared behind him with a Shadow Clone and drove him into the ground with the Great Deficiency Sword.
• The lightning hand seized Yang Zhen and struck him with countless bolts as Hua Youyue pulled Han Yan'er away and everyone fled.

Yang Zhen endured a terrifying Heavenly Wrath that turned the sea of lightning green, while Han Yan'er considered severing her Dao to help him. He emerged battered from the crater just as the giant hand of Heavenly Punishment descended again.

• The lightning overhead transformed into green Heavenly Wrath, shocking Feng Wuya, Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels, and the others.
• Shameless Cat assured Han Yan'er that Yang Zhen was alive because the Heavenly Wrath had formed, though he warned her that entering the lightning could make the punishment stronger.
• Yang Zhen was hurled from the clouds into the ground, leaving a massive crater as the lightning struck around him.
• Han Yan'er asked whether severing her Dao would let her help Yang Zhen, but Shameless Cat warned that doing so could cost her life without saving him.
• Yang Zhen crawled out of the crater, smoking and battered, and joked about the giant hand of Heavenly Punishment descending toward him.

Gravely wounded, Yang Zhen called on the power of the Demon God Territory and faced the lightning hand and more than a hundred Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beasts. With the Evil Shadow Black Taotie and Flirtatious Chicken intercepting the beasts, he unleashed the Eighth Dragon Elephant and a devastating sword strike, then collapsed into a crater.

• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er watched Yang Zhen suffer beneath the enormous lightning hand, while Shameless Cat warned that Hua Youyue could not save him because she was a reincarnated person.
• Yang Zhen called out "Wilderness! Heaven! Sacrifice!" and drew streams of primordial Qi and golden light from countless cultivators in the Demon God Territory.
• Yang Zhen called for hidden foes to come out, and more than a hundred Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beasts emerged from the lightning sea.
• The Evil Shadow Black Taotie and Flirtatious Chicken charged into the sky and intercepted the Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beasts.
• Yang Zhen activated the Eighth Dragon Elephant and swung the Great Deficiency Sword, unleashing a blow that destroyed a vast area of the Demon God Territory.
• Yang Zhen fell into a crater, and Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er rushed toward him.

Yang Zhen recovered after reaching the heavenly cycle realm, then learned how the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth had shaped the Great Wilderness World and what the Demon Puppets were. The survivors turned their attention to how Yang Zhen had drawn out so many cultivators’ Thought Power.

• Yang Zhen awoke from his tribulation as the Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken brawled, and he discovered his spiritual soul had grown stronger in the heavenly cycle realm.
• Han Yan'er and Hua Youyue helped Yang Zhen up, while Feng Wuya lamented the destruction of much of the Demon God Territory during the tribulation.
• Feng Wuya and Yue Ling explained that powerful factions had entered slumber to evade the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, while many Great Saints and Emperor Realm experts had fallen.
• Yang Zhen asked about the Demon Puppets, and Feng Wuya revealed that they had been refined by the Demon Sect.
• Feng Wuya asked how Yang Zhen had drawn out the Thought Power of so many cultivators, and Yang Zhen complained that using it was difficult.

Yang Zhen dismissed the use of Thought Power and planned to return to White Cloud Mountain, but news of a Demon Sect attack sent him racing to the Jade Pool Holy Land. He learned that the sect had been devastated as the Demon Sect tried to open a holy tomb near the Heavenly Star World.

• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels explained the Demon Sect's long efforts to gather Thought Power, but Yang Zhen remained unimpressed.
• Yang Zhen decided to leave for White Cloud Mountain with Shameless Cat, while Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er reacted nervously to his plan to leave the next day.
• Shameless Cat warned Yang Zhen that something grave had happened, and Feng Wuya arrived to report an attack on the Jade Pool Holy Land.
• Feng Wuya said the Demon Sect had slaughtered several thousand cultivators for their primal blood and destroyed more than half of the Jade Pool Holy Land while trying to open a holy tomb near the Heavenly Star World.
• Yang Zhen rushed toward the Jade Pool Holy Land, followed by Hua Youyue, Han Yan'er, Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels, and a chicken carrying a cat.

Yang Zhen and his companions rescued the Jade Pool Holy Land from a Demon Puppet assault and learned the Demon Sect was targeting a newly revealed Saint's Tomb. As the Demon Sect's seventh elder arrived, Yang Zhen was struck by how carefully the man had polished his image.

• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels and the others caught up with Yang Zhen, surprised that the Flirtatious Chicken had outpaced them.
• Yang Zhen, the Flirtatious Chicken, and the Shameless Cat cut through the Demon Puppets surrounding the Jade Pool Holy Land, while Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er fought inside the light curtain.
• The Jade Pool Holy Lord told Yang Zhen that a Saint's Tomb had appeared near the Heavenly Star World and that Demon Sect forces and thousands of unknown cultivators had gathered there.
• Feng Wuya reported that three Demon Sect elders had come, and the Jade Pool Holy Lord warned Yang Zhen that the seventh elder might respond to the attack.
• The Demon Sect's seventh elder descended from the sky, rousing the Demon Puppets and demonized cultivators as Yang Zhen admired the elder's carefully crafted appearance.

Xin Hai withdrew his forces after revealing that his real body was already heading for the Holy Tomb, whose location remained unknown. Yang Zhen realized the Demon Sect’s attack was connected to Demon Wind Cliff and claimed he knew where the Holy Tomb was.

• Xin Hai halted the Demon Puppets and brainwashed cultivators, then told Yang Zhen he would see him inside the Holy Tomb.
• Xin Hai revealed that the figure before them was a Spirit Transformation body and that his real body was entering the Holy Tomb.
• Yao Lianxing explained that neither the Jade Pool Holy Land nor the Demon Sect had found the Holy Tomb’s exact location, though the Demon Sect seemed able to sense it.
• Feng Wuya urged everyone to find the Demon Sect before it obtained the Holy Tomb’s inheritance, but the group had no idea where to search.
• Yang Zhen said he knew where the Holy Tomb was and asked Yao Lianxing what his people had been doing before the attack; Yao Lianxing recognized the clue as Demon Wind Cliff.

Yao Lianxing deduced that the Holy Tomb was at Demon Wind Cliff, and Yang Zhen’s group flew there to stop the Demon Sect from claiming it. They found the cliff guarded by endless Demon Puppets, and Yang Zhen and Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels made a race to break through, wagering Yang Zhen’s Movement Method against a secret about eternal life.

• Yao Lianxing realized the Holy Tomb was near Demon Wind Cliff and sent word for allies to join them there.
• Yao Lianxing explained that the Demon Sect’s assault on the Jade Pool Holy Land had been meant to keep it away from the Holy Tomb.
• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels announced he would lead the attack, and Yang Zhen charged into Demon Wind Cliff, drawing out a vast army of Demon Puppets.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er combined their attacks against the Demon Puppets while Yang Zhen and the others fought their way forward.
• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels challenged Yang Zhen to race toward the Holy Tomb, offering a secret about eternal life if Yang Zhen won; Yang Zhen accepted.

Yang Zhen won a chaotic battle against the Demon Puppets with Skyward Cannon, the cultivation method he had created himself. Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels and Feng Wuya rushed to learn about it, leaving Yang Zhen confused by their excitement.

• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels bet that Yang Zhen would lose their race through the Demon Puppets and claim Traversing the Void in Midair.
• Yang Zhen blasted through the Demon Puppets with overwhelming speed and power, leaving Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels and the others stunned.
• Yang Zhen revealed that he had reworked Skyward Cannon into a cultivation method that improved cultivation, enabled rapid movement, and unleashed powerful attacks.
• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels and Feng Wuya rushed toward Yang Zhen, eager to obtain the self-created cultivation method, while Han Yan'er asked Shameless Cat why it was so precious.
• Yang Zhen said Skyward Cannon was only spirit-grade, and the others exclaimed that he did not understand the significance of creating a cultivation method himself.

Yang Zhen learned that creating his own cultivation method let him evade many of heaven and earth’s restrictions, though he had faced Heavenly Punishment instead of a Heavenly Tribulation. When the Holy Tomb revealed itself inside Demon Wind Cliff, Yang Zhen and the others charged in to stop the Demon Sect, where they sensed a deeper danger.

• Yang Zhen told Feng Wuya that he had never undergone a Heavenly Tribulation and recalled that Heavenly Punishment had struck when he reached the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
• Yao Lianxing explained that Heavenly Punishment was more terrifying than a Heavenly Tribulation, and Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels said Yang Zhen’s self-created cultivation method let him avoid many heavenly restrictions.
• A pillar of holy light erupted from Demon Wind Cliff, and Yao Lianxing warned that the Demon Sect must not obtain the Holy Tomb.
• Yang Zhen urged everyone to charge into Demon Wind Cliff before Xin Hai reached the Holy Tomb, then raced ahead as Feng Wuya and the others followed.
• The Demon Puppets retreated as the group attacked, and Yang Zhen sensed that Demon Wind Cliff held more than met the eye.

Yang Zhen and the others entered the Holy Tomb, where they encountered Condensed Spirits and learned that the Great Saint buried there might be preparing to reincarnate. As they approached the tomb, a violent fluctuation and Xin Hai’s laughter sounded nearby, and Yang Zhen rushed ahead to investigate.

• Yang Zhen’s group encountered ghostly Condensed Spirits, and Feng Wuya explained that they could mean the Great Saint was preparing to reincarnate.
• Shameless Cat persuaded Yang Zhen to claim they would guard the Great Saint’s treasures before the Demon Sect could take them.
• Han Yan’er sensed that the area followed Star Techniques and said she felt the Great Saint was about to awaken.
• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels warned that Xin Hai and the Demon Sect might already be nearby as both sides raced to find the Holy Tomb.
• A terrifying fluctuation erupted ahead, and Feng Wuya recognized Xin Hai’s laughter as Yang Zhen fired Skyward Cannon and rushed toward it.

Yang Zhen and the others tried to stop Xin Hai from refining the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus, which could let the Demon Sect turn countless people into walking corpses. While Feng Wuya and the others fought the Demon Guards, Yang Zhen confronted Xin Hai and demanded the lotus.

• Shameless Cat explained that the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus could revive the dead and become a powerful weapon for the Demon Sect if Xin Hai demonized it.
• Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels, Feng Wuya, and the others attacked Xin Hai, but more than twenty Demon Guards arrived and blocked them.
• Xin Hai declared that he would finish refining the lotus even if every Demon Guard died, then Feng Wuya and the others fought the guards.
• Yang Zhen asked Shameless Cat whether the lotus had revived the Great Saint, and Shameless Cat urged him to destroy it if he could not refine it.
• As the battle stalled and the lotus turned nearly half black, Yang Zhen approached Xin Hai and demanded that he hand it over.