Recaps

Yang Zhen escaped the Empress of Su Emperor Palace and the Third Holy Maiden, then disguised himself as a Devil Cultivator to approach two members of the Devil Cultivators. He gained their trust and learned that they were digging a tunnel to get past the Western Region Alliance’s defenses.

• The Empress of Su Emperor Palace confronted Yang Zhen, but he joked about marrying her before vanishing with Shameless Cat.
• The Third Holy Maiden joined the Empress of Su Emperor Palace, and the two women walked back together while discussing Yang Zhen.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat appeared on a mountaintop and spotted two Devil Cultivators in the mountains.
• Yang Zhen disguised his presence as that of a Devil Cultivator and persuaded the pair that he was one of them.
• The triangular-eyed Devil Cultivator revealed that the group was digging a tunnel to bypass the Western Region Alliance’s defenses.

Yang Zhen tricked two Devil Cultivators into revealing that Chen Xiaotian’s people had dug an entrance near Nine Dragons’ Mouth, then headed with Shameless Cat toward the Western Region Holy Assembly. They found a concealed route into the alliance, but someone appeared above the cliff and asked how they planned to stir things up.

• Yang Zhen befriended Triangle Eyes and Brother Ma, learned where the hidden entrance was, and marked them so they could meet again.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat left to find Luo Jin and Jin Chanzi, traveling toward the Western Region Alliance without encountering anyone along the way.
• After two days, Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat reached Mount Xiyuan and approached the Western Origin Mountain Mirror, where the alliance was based.
• Yang Zhen found a cliffside route that concealed their presence and began climbing with Shameless Cat toward the heart of the alliance.
• A person suddenly appeared over the cliff and asked Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat how they wanted to stir things up.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat encountered Lin Ruchu in a cliffside ravine, where Yang Zhen warned her that the Savage Wilderness supreme treasure would appear in three days. Lin Ruchu sealed his Dantian but brought him along, leaving Dong Ci suspicious and resentful.

• Yang Zhen fell from the cliff with Shameless Cat, then appeared behind Lin Ruchu and claimed he wanted to expose Chen Xiaotian's plans.
• Yang Zhen told Lin Ruchu that the Savage Wilderness supreme treasure would appear in three days, and she sealed his Dantian and threatened to kill him if he was wrong.
• Lin Ruchu introduced herself, then called Yang Zhen a passerby when Dong Ci and several cultivators arrived.
• Dong Ci ordered his men to take Yang Zhen for interrogation, but Lin Ruchu rebuked him and told Yang Zhen to come with her.
• Dong Ci watched Lin Ruchu leave with Yang Zhen and muttered that she would have to explain herself at the alliance's upcoming grand competition.

Yang Zhen accompanied Lin Ruochu to her temporary palace, where he learned her group was preparing for a competition tied to the Savage Wilderness’s supreme treasure. The chapter ended with Lin Ruochu explaining that their opponent was a Saint Venerable Realm body-refining cultivator.

• Yang Zhen admired the arrays in Lin Ruochu’s temporary palace and met Elder Guo and three young men.
• Lin Ruochu introduced Yang Zhen as someone who knew the Savage Wilderness’s supreme treasure would emerge in three days, and Yang Zhen gave his name as Yang Tianxiu.
• Yang Zhen claimed Chen Xiaotian had told him about the treasure after they fought for three days and three nights, but the others doubted his story.
• Elder Guo asked about Lin Ruochu’s preparations for the competition, and she said her group was one person short of qualifying for the summit of Mount Xiyuan.
• Elder Guo offered to join the competition, but Lin Ruochu said he was unsuited to head-on combat because their opponent was a Saint Venerable Realm body-refining cultivator.

Yang Zhen learned that Lin Ruochu’s faction needed to contest control of Mount Xiyuan’s summit against a powerful rival group, which included the Saint Venerable body cultivator Yang Tiehe. At the summit, Guangchengzi volunteered to face Yang Tiehe in Lin Ruochu’s place, just as Yang Tiehe appeared and hurled a huge beast to the ground.

• Yang Zhen mocked Guangchengzi when he challenged him to a fight, then asked Lin Ruochu where he would stay.
• Lin Ruochu ordered her attendants to arrange a room for Yang Zhen in the West Palace, despite Guangchengzi’s objections.
• Yang Zhen learned that the competition would decide who guarded Mount Xiyuan’s summit, where a Savage Wilderness supreme treasure might appear.
• Yang Zhen found out that their opponents had more than ten Saint Venerable cultivators, including the formidable body cultivator Yang Tiehe.
• At the summit, Guangchengzi objected to Lin Ruochu fighting Yang Tiehe and offered to face him himself.
• A huge beast crashed to the ground after Yang Tiehe threw it, startling Yang Zhen and the others.

Yang Zhen grew jealous when Yang Tiehe brought in a Saint Venerable Realm Gale Sheep, then walked toward the powerful body cultivator after mistaking his provocative look as a personal insult. He left everyone bewildered by insisting he was acting only because he disliked Yang Tiehe's face.

• Yang Tiehe carried in a Saint Venerable Realm Gale Sheep he had killed barehanded, shocking the crowd and alarming Lin Ruochu's group.
• Lin Ruochu insisted she would face Yang Tiehe, despite Elder Guo and Guangchengzi warning that he could badly injure her and ruin their chances at Mount Xiyuan's summit.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat decided Yang Tiehe was provoking them, and Yang Zhen started walking toward him.
• Lin Ruochu and Guangchengzi tried to stop Yang Zhen, warning that he was only at the Saint Realm and could not match Yang Tiehe.
• Yang Zhen rejected the idea that he was acting for Lin Ruochu and said he simply disliked the look of Yang Tiehe.

Yang Zhen challenged Yang Tiehe after they argued over whose roasted sheep leg was bigger, while Lin Ruochu tried to protect Yang Zhen and give up their chance to fight for Mount Xiyuan. Yang Zhen accepted the fight anyway, and the chapter ended as Yang Tiehe unleashed his power and prepared to crush him, with Guangchengzi appearing to share Yang Tiehe’s satisfaction.

• Yang Tiehe approached Lin Ruochu’s group, and Lin Ruochu stepped in front of Yang Zhen to face him.
• Yang Tiehe and Yang Zhen argued over their sheep legs, and Yang Zhen traded insults with one of Yang Tiehe’s companions.
• Yang Tiehe offered Yang Zhen the chance to decide what happened if he won, but Lin Ruochu declared that her group would give up the opportunity.
• Guangchengzi argued with Lin Ruochu about their fallen companions, then volunteered to fight Yang Tiehe and was dismissed.
• Yang Zhen accepted Yang Tiehe’s challenge despite Lin Ruochu’s warning, and Yang Tiehe released a blast of power as Guangchengzi and Yang Tiehe both smiled.

Guangchengzi betrayed Lin Ruochu and joined Yang Tiehe’s side, but Yang Zhen refused to follow and revealed his overwhelming body-forging strength. After killing Guangchengzi with one punch, Yang Zhen struck Yang Tiehe and sent him flying.

• Guangchengzi abandoned Lin Ruochu’s side because he wanted the Savage Wilderness’s supreme treasure and urged Lin Ruochu to join Yang Tiehe.
• Lin Ruochu gave up the contest, and Yang Tiehe invited Yang Zhen to join him, but Yang Zhen refused and challenged both Yang Tiehe and Guangchengzi.
• Guangchengzi unleashed his power and attacked Yang Zhen, but Yang Zhen instantly punched his head apart.
• Yang Zhen revealed that he was a body-forging cultivator and launched himself at Yang Tiehe.
• Yang Zhen struck Yang Tiehe with a punch and sent him flying.

Yang Zhen defeated Yang Tiehe in a contest of strength, clearing the way for the group to climb Mount Xiyuan. Applause interrupted them, and Yang Zhen recognized the newcomer as Luo Jin.

• Guangchengzi fled after seeing Yang Zhen send Yang Tiehe flying with one punch.
• Elder Guo realized Yang Zhen had attained sainthood through body forging, while Yang Tiehe returned eager to fight him.
• Yang Tiehe and Yang Zhen exchanged punches, and Yang Zhen revealed that he had used only ten percent of his strength.
• Yang Zhen shattered Yang Tiehe's fists and asked whether anyone would stop the group from climbing Mount Xiyuan.
• Luo Jin appeared, and Yang Zhen greeted him as an old acquaintance, surprising Lin Ruochu.

Yang Zhen reached the summit of Mount Xiyuan with help from Luo Jin, where cultivators awaited the emergence of a supreme treasure of the Savage Wilderness. As a sinister wind and traces of Devil Qi appeared, Yang Zhen anticipated that Luo Jin’s forces would face trouble.

• Luo Jin and Jin Chanzi found Yang Zhen, and Luo Jin offered to arrange his journey to the summit.
• Yang Zhen and Lin Ruochu’s group arrived at the barren summit, where Lin Ruochu discussed Luo Jin’s plan to confront Chen Xiaotian and the Devil Cultivators.
• Yang Zhen joked that Luo Jin’s several thousand followers could turn the tide, while Shameless Cat suspected Yang Zhen was expecting trouble.
• That night, Yang Zhen explained the idea of the atmosphere and outer space to Shameless Cat as cultivators awaited the next day’s events.
• A sinister wind swept across Mount Xiyuan, faint Devil Qi spread through the air, and Yang Zhen warned that Luo Jin might be in trouble before heading to investigate with Lin Ruochu’s group.

Yang Zhen and Lin Ruochu reached the summit of Mount Xiyuan, where they joined Elder Guo’s group and watched prominent figures gather around the Savage Wilderness supreme treasure. As Luo Jin welcomed the Empress of Su Emperor Palace and the Three Flowers Holy Maiden, Yang Zhen wondered where Chen Xiaotian was.

• Lin Ruochu told Yang Zhen that Luo Jin and Jin Chanzi were far stronger than Yang Tiehe, while Yang Zhen privately dismissed the comparison.
• Yang Zhen taught Shameless Cat new entrance music and arranged for a dramatic future entrance.
• Yang Zhen and Lin Ruochu joined Elder Guo’s group and held the western side of Mount Xiyuan’s summit.
• Lin Ruochu pointed out the Heaven-Splitting Ox from Su Emperor Palace and the Three Flowers Holy Land, whose Holy Maiden she admired.
• Luo Jin welcomed the Empress of Su Emperor Palace and the Three Flowers Holy Maiden, then Lin Ruochu noticed the people from Yaoguang Holy Land arriving.

Yang Zhen watched Luo Jin and Jin Chanzi gather the cultivators on Mount Xiyuan and announce that the Void Rock Shuttle would soon appear, drawing the Demonic Sect’s forces nearby. The Third Holy Maiden confirmed the shuttle existed, and Yang Zhen turned his attention to something in the sky.

• Lin Ruochu told Yang Zhen to hold the western side of Mount Xiyuan’s summit and warned him to protect himself.
• Yang Zhen considered the Void Rock Shuttle and its connection to the Void Rock Realm, where the Devil God Tomb was located.
• Luo Jin and Jin Chanzi addressed the gathered cultivators, and Luo Jin announced that the Void Rock Shuttle would emerge within two hours.
• Luo Jin warned that Chen Xiaotian and the Demonic Sect were nearby, then claimed their forces numbered only two or three thousand.
• Jin Chanzi invited the Third Holy Maiden to speak, and she confirmed that the Void Rock Shuttle existed.
• Yang Zhen suddenly looked toward a spot in the heavens with a solemn expression.

Yang Zhen and the others faced a massive Devil Cultivator army led by Chen Xiaotian, while Shameless Cat warned that the world had begun another cycle of reincarnation. As the confrontation escalated, a strange heartbeat-like sound echoed across the Western Origin Mountain Range.

• Yang Zhen warned Lin Ruochu to leave, and Elder Guo asked him to protect her as the Devil Cultivators approached.
• A force of twenty thousand Devil Cultivators arrived over the Western Origin Mountain Range, with Chen Xiaotian and dozens of Final Step powerhouses at their head.
• Luo Jin and Jin Chanzi challenged Chen Xiaotian, who dismissed the Western Region Alliance and demonstrated the power of his giant beast.
• Yang Zhen discussed the Void Heaven Seal and Void Rock Shuttle with Shameless Cat, who said he sensed a new cycle of reincarnation beginning.
• Lin Ruochu questioned Yang Zhen about his identity, and a heartbeat-like sound suddenly rang through the mountain range.

Chen Xiaotian arrived at Mount Xiyuan with a host of Devil Cultivators as the Void Heaven Seal began to emerge, then used a Heavenly Devil Cage to seize the summit. Yang Zhen rushed toward the treasure but was left outside with the other cultivators as Luo Jin led them into battle.

• Chen Xiaotian and his Devil Cultivators surrounded the cultivators at Mount Xiyuan as heaven and earth trembled in anticipation of the Void Heaven Seal.
• Chen Xiaotian killed a Saint Venerable Realm elder with a single attack, and Luo Jin refused to let the treasure fall into his hands without a fight.
• Jin Chanzi summoned a golden Buddha with blood-red eyes, whose fist destroyed the summit and revealed that the treasure had appeared.
• Yang Zhen grabbed Shameless Cat and rushed toward the summit, while Chen Xiaotian trapped it inside a Heavenly Devil Cage and blocked the other cultivators.
• Luo Jin led the Dao cultivators in an assault on the Devil Cultivators guarding the summit.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat watched the Void Heaven Emperor Palace emerge, but Chen Xiaotian ordered the Devil Domain to block the Dao cultivators and unleashed the Nine Transformations of the Heavenly Devil formation. As the formation engulfed the mountain, Yang Zhen wondered whether the Western Region Holy Assembly Alliance had any countermeasure, and Luo Jin cried out for his master.

• The Void Heaven Emperor Palace burst from the mountain, and Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that the Void Heaven Seal might be inside.
• Chen Xiaotian ordered the Devil Domain to kill any Dao cultivator who entered the palace, and the Devil Cultivators formed a barrier.
• Luo Jin charged Chen Xiaotian, but the Black Flame Devil Venerable struck him, prompting Jin Chanzi to intervene and Dao cultivators to attack the formation.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat sneaked into the fighting crowd, planning to reach the palace and take the Void Heaven Seal.
• Chen Xiaotian’s Nine Transformations of the Heavenly Devil formation erupted in black flames around the Dao cultivators, and Luo Jin called for his master.

Elder Moonwatch appeared to save Luo Jin and confronted Chen Xiaotian and a Devil Emperor, who revealed his true power and fought him in the sky. As Yang Zhen tried to slip into the Void Heaven Emperor Palace, Chen Xiaotian recognized him and Yang Zhen pretended to be a passerby.

• Elder Moonwatch arrived, dispersed the devil fire threatening Luo Jin, and was identified as an Emperor Realm expert.
• Elder Moonwatch confronted Chen Xiaotian and the Devil Emperor, who revealed himself as a Soul-Release Devil Ape from High Antiquity.
• Elder Moonwatch and the Devil Emperor clashed, sending the battle high into the heavens and shaking the surrounding space.
• Yang Zhen used the distraction to edge toward the Void Heaven Emperor Palace.
• Chen Xiaotian spotted Yang Zhen, who waved and claimed he was just a passerby.

Chen Xiaotian surrounded Yang Zhen with Devil Cultivators and declared that he would kill him, while Three Flowers Holy Land, Su Emperor Palace, and Jade Pool Holy Land prepared to charge into the Void Heaven Emperor Palace. Yang Zhen then summoned ten thousand Dao cultivators, leaving Chen Xiaotian shocked as they arrived on Mount Xiyuan.

• Chen Xiaotian ordered thousands of Devil Cultivators to surround Yang Zhen and said that Yang alone had to die.
• The Empress of Su Emperor Palace, the Three Flowers Holy Maiden, and the Third Holy Maiden ordered their factions to prepare to charge into the Void Heaven Emperor Palace.
• Yang Zhen cursed Chen Xiaotian, who admitted he was using his numbers to overwhelm Yang and threatened Three Flowers Holy Land and Empress Fengyu.
• Yang Zhen claimed he could summon ten thousand people, and cries of “Protect our Holy Lord!” rang out from every direction.
• Ten thousand Dao cultivators reached Mount Xiyuan, and Chen Xiaotian demanded to know how they had entered as Yang Zhen said they had crawled through a tunnel.

Yang Zhen and his allies stormed toward the Void Heaven Emperor Palace, where Yang Zhen overwhelmed Chen Xiaotian in a clash that stunned the gathered cultivators. Chen Xiaotian vanished and summoned the deadly Black Lotus of Death, and Yang Zhen prepared to answer it with a lotus of his own.

• Chen Xiaotian ordered the Devil Cultivators to kill Yang Zhen, but more than ten thousand cultivators erupted into action and protected their holy lord.
• Yang Zhen charged Chen Xiaotian with a tiny Heavenly Scorpion, then summoned a golden scorpion and blasted Chen Xiaotian backward with a punch.
• Yang Zhen chased and attacked Chen Xiaotian, whose greater cultivation could not overcome Yang Zhen's speed and reckless assault.
• Chen Xiaotian released a wave of blood, disappeared, and warned that Yang Zhen would die before summoning the Black Lotus of Death.
• Yang Zhen told the panicked crowd that he also seemed to have a lotus.

Chen Xiaotian unleashed the Black Lotus of Death as everyone fought toward the Void Heaven Emperor Palace, but Yang Zhen brought out the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus and neutralized its deadly blood strands. When Chen Xiaotian fed his heart’s blood to the Black Lotus and sent it charging at Yang Zhen’s lotus, Yang Zhen closed his eyes, leaving everyone terrified of the impending clash.

• Chen Xiaotian unleashed the Black Lotus of Death, sending deadly blood strands raining down on the fleeing cultivators.
• Hua Youyue, the Empress of Su Emperor Palace, the Third Holy Maiden, and the Yaoguang Holy Lord urged their forces forward toward the Void Heaven Emperor Palace.
• The auras of Yang Zhen’s cultivators turned golden, boosting their strength as they fought back the Devil Cultivators.
• Yang Zhen revealed the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus, which absorbed the Black Lotus’s blood strands and sent the crowd into cheers.
• Chen Xiaotian fed his heart’s blood to the Black Lotus of Death and sent it roaring toward the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus.
• Yang Zhen closed his eyes as Shameless Cat warned that Chen Xiaotian was trying to destroy both lotuses, leaving the crowd fearing the explosion.

Yang Zhen revealed the Heaven and Earth Azure Lotus and used it to destroy Chen Xiaotian’s Black Lotus of Death, saving everyone from the imminent collision. Chen Xiaotian charged at Yang Zhen but crashed into the protective formation his own Devil Cultivators had created.

• Chen Xiaotian prepared to let the Black Lotus of Death collide with Yang Zhen’s World-Ending Heavenly Lotus, while the gathered cultivators feared they would all die.
• Yang Zhen revealed that he possessed more than one lotus and claimed he would save all living beings under heaven.
• Chen Xiaotian ordered the Devil Cultivators to protect Yang Zhen so he would witness everyone’s deaths, and they formed a defensive barrier around him.
• Yang Zhen summoned the Heaven and Earth Azure Lotus, which destroyed the Black Lotus of Death before it struck the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus.
• Chen Xiaotian charged at Yang Zhen but smashed into the Devil Cultivators’ protective formation, drawing laughter from those present.

Yang Zhen vanished from Chen Xiaotian’s attack, reappeared behind him, and beat him until Chen Xiaotian unleashed Heavenly Devil Disintegration. Yang Zhen survived the blast and slipped into the Void Heaven Emperor Palace, where he felt strangely as though he had returned.

• Chen Xiaotian charged Yang Zhen with his black longsword after the Devil Cultivators withdrew their defensive formation.
• Yang Zhen vanished, then reappeared behind Chen Xiaotian and struck him with punches that pierced through the void.
• Chen Xiaotian fled from Yang Zhen, but then seized him and unleashed Heavenly Devil Disintegration.
• The blast filled Mount Xiyuan with a sea of blood, and the cultivators believed Yang Zhen had died as he cried out.
• Yang Zhen survived unharmed and secretly entered the Void Heaven Emperor Palace, where he wondered why he felt as though he were back.

Yang Zhen explored the Void Heaven Emperor Palace and found a Heavenly Heart Stone structure that might contain the Void Heaven Seal, but the Devil Emperor warned that it held a dangerous Primordial Heaven Restriction. After Shameless Cat explained the danger of touching it, Yang Zhen pulled his hand back, while the Devil Emperor approached with a knowing smile.

• Yang Zhen entered the palace and found its carvings strangely similar to his own Heaven and Earth True Runes.
• Yang Zhen reached a circular Heavenly Heart Stone structure that might seal the Void Heaven Seal, and the Devil Emperor warned him about its Primordial Heaven Restriction.
• Elder Moonwatch urged Yang Zhen to touch the stone, while the Devil Emperor challenged him to open the restriction.
• Yang Zhen called Shameless Cat out of hiding, and Shameless Cat explained that Primordial Heaven Restrictions concealed living beings and helped them evade Heavenly Punishment.
• Shameless Cat warned that touching the restriction without knowing how to use it would bring terrifying Heavenly Punishment, so Yang Zhen withdrew his hand.
• The Devil Emperor approached Yang Zhen with a contemptuous laugh, and Shameless Cat wondered if he knew how to use the restriction.

Yang Zhen watched the Devil Emperor attempt to take the Heavenly Heart Stone, then stopped him with Heaven and Earth True Runes he had secretly altered. After the Devil Emperor was exposed and challenged, Yang walked toward the stone, claiming he would open it himself.

• Yang Zhen feared the danger of the Primordial Heaven Restriction and acted wary while the Devil Emperor approached the Heavenly Heart Stone.
• The Devil Emperor claimed the stone belonged to Devil Cultivators, triggered a blinding burst of light, and tried to carry it out of the hall.
• Old Man Wangyue charged after the Devil Emperor, and Yang Zhen activated the altered Heaven and Earth True Runes to knock him down and send the stone rolling away.
• Yang Zhen and Old Man Wangyue mocked the Devil Emperor for trying to steal the stone, while the Devil Emperor insisted he had been protecting everyone from the restriction.
• Yang Zhen walked toward the Heavenly Heart Stone and declared that he would step in and open it himself.

Yang Zhen agreed to search the Void Heaven Emperor Palace for a way to open the Heavenly Heart Stone rather than risk triggering Heavenly Punishment. Studying the palace’s Heaven and Earth patterns, he began to understand Heaven and Earth Numeracy and the nature of the Power of the Void.

• Yang Zhen admitted he did not know how to break the Primordial Heaven Restriction and agreed to search for a key to the Heavenly Heart Stone after others warned him of the danger.
• The Devil Emperor proposed that everyone search the palace for a way to open the Heavenly Heart Stone, and Yang Zhen accepted.
• The Third Holy Maiden, Hua Youyue, and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace asked Yang Zhen whether he had a plan, and he told them to search while he stayed behind.
• Yang Zhen sat down and used his awareness to perceive the Heaven and Earth True Runes throughout the palace.
• Yang Zhen realized the patterns followed Heaven and Earth Numeracy and began wondering why living beings could not control the Power of the Void.

After three days of waiting, Yang Zhen emerged from cultivation with Void Power, astonishing everyone gathered around the Heavenly Heart Stone. The Devil Emperor challenged him to prove his claim and swore to eat the stone if Yang Zhen could use the power, then watched Yang Zhen open a rift in the void.

• Everyone returned from searching for a way to breach the Heavenly Heart Stone and found Yang Zhen cultivating, then waited for him for three days.
• Yang Zhen radiated Void Power as he finished cultivating, startling the Devil Emperor, Old Man Wangyue, Hua Youyue, and the others.
• Yang Zhen said he had mastered Void Power, but the Devil Emperor dismissed his claim because Yang Zhen was still at the Saint Realm.
• The Devil Emperor swore to eat the Heavenly Heart Stone if Yang Zhen could demonstrate Void Power.
• Yang Zhen casually opened a visible rift in the void, leaving the Devil Emperor pale and stunned.