Recaps

Yang Zhen drove away the poisonous miasma surrounding the Gods and Devils Ruins and explained that it consisted of living Qi Particles. Great Emperor Aotian abandoned his attempt to refine heaven and earth and joined Yang Zhen as they prepared to enter the ruins.

• Yang Zhen returned the Empress of Su Emperor Palace's divine treasure and shouted for the poisonous miasma to leave, clearing the entrance to the Gods and Devils Ruins.
• Granny stopped an old man from following Yang Zhen into the ruins, while the Great Emperor watched Yang Zhen with growing interest.
• Yang Zhen invited the Empress of Su Emperor Palace to enter the ruins, and the Great Emperor asked how he had driven away the miasma.
• Yang Zhen described the miasma as living microorganisms made of Qi Particles, surprising the Great Emperor and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace.
• The Great Emperor introduced himself as Shi Aotian, and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace recognized him as Great Emperor Aotian, a famed emperor of slaughter.
• Yang Zhen challenged Great Emperor Aotian to join him, and Aotian agreed to enter the ruins with him.

Yang Zhen, Great Emperor Aotian, and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace entered the Gods and Devils Ruins to search for the Ancient Water of Life's Origin. When none of them knew where to find it, Yang Zhen used a branch to choose their direction, and the others followed him.

• The Empress of Su Emperor Palace stayed with Yang Zhen as Granny remained behind to guard Su Emperor.
• Yang Zhen, Great Emperor Aotian, and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace entered the Gods and Devils Ruins and found a gloomy world filled with abundant worldly Qi.
• Yang Zhen admitted he did not know where the Ancient Water of Life's Origin was, and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace explained that it could restore the dead to life.
• Yang Zhen tossed a branch into the air and followed the direction its pointed end indicated.
• Great Emperor Aotian laughed at Yang Zhen's method, but he and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace followed him.

Yang Zhen’s branch led him and Great Emperor Aotian and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace to a vast underground ruin, where they found two statues of the Gods and Devils and a mysterious gate. The gate might conceal the Ancient Water of Life’s Origin, but Yang Zhen did not know how to open it, and the others pressed him to explain how he had found it.

• Great Emperor Aotian mocked Yang Zhen for walking in circles, but Yang Zhen threw his branch into the air and it fell back into the ground at their feet.
• Yang Zhen began digging with the Star Spring Sword despite Great Emperor Aotian’s warning, triggering a vast collapse that carried all three of them deep underground.
• Yang Zhen shielded the Empress of Su Emperor Palace as they fell, while Great Emperor Aotian was battered by dirt.
• The three landed before two enormous, damaged statues and a black gate covered in unfamiliar patterns of heaven and earth.
• Great Emperor Aotian asked Yang Zhen how he had found the underground ruin, and Yang Zhen claimed he could sense the Principle of Heaven and Earth there.

Yang Zhen realized that the Gods and Devils Ruins had a Principle of Heaven and Earth established by a powerful being, and suspected the discovery was connected to the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth. At the gate, he called for it to open, and it cracked apart.

• Great Emperor Aotian doubted that Yang Zhen could sense the Principle of Heaven and Earth or use it to find the Ancient Water of Life's Origin.
• Yang Zhen sensed that the Principle in the Gods and Devils Ruins was opposite to the one in the Main Realm and had been established by someone.
• Yang Zhen wondered whether the ruins were a self-contained world ruled by a god and linked the discovery to the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.
• Yang Zhen decided to enter the gate, though he did not know how to overcome its powerful restrictions.
• Yang Zhen shouted, "Sesame... open!" and the gate opened a crack, astonishing Great Emperor Aotian and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace.

Yang Zhen opened the gate to the Gods and Devils Ruins, revealing a deadly flood of death Qi and the remains of powerful cultivators. He and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace followed Great Emperor Aotian inside, where a mournful voice stopped Aotian in his tracks and left him collapsed among the bones.

• Yang Zhen opened the gate by saying "Open sesame," while Great Emperor Aotian and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace failed to open it themselves.
• Death Qi poured through the gate, and Yang Zhen, Great Emperor Aotian, and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace saw countless skeletons, including the remains of more than a dozen cultivators who had achieved Physical Body Sanctification and a Great Emperor.
• Yang Zhen entered the ruins, followed by the Empress of Su Emperor Palace and then Great Emperor Aotian.
• A mournful voice echoed inside the ruins, and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace clung to Yang Zhen as Great Emperor Aotian rushed ahead to investigate.
• Great Emperor Aotian collapsed among the bones, warned Yang Zhen not to approach, and said something strange was happening there.

Yang Zhen investigated the strange strands binding Great Emperor Aotian while refusing to help him at first. He returned to bargain for Aotian’s belongings, then revealed that the strands could be refined into an Emperor Treasure.

• Yang Zhen warned the Empress of Su Emperor Palace not to enter recklessly while he examined the trapped Great Emperor Aotian.
• Great Emperor Aotian spotted glowing strands wrapped around him and told Yang Zhen they were draining his strength.
• Yang Zhen walked away, then returned and asked Aotian to hand over his belongings and legacy before he died.
• Yang Zhen said he could refine the binding strands into Immortal-Binding Ropes, and Great Emperor Aotian explained that such a powerful item would be an Emperor Treasure.

Yang Zhen studied the webs binding Great Emperor Aotian and found a way to free him as a swarm of Corpse Scutigera approached. He used a snow-white whip to shatter the webs, and Aotian recognized it as the Immortal-Binding Rope.

• Yang Zhen examined the webs binding Great Emperor Aotian while the Empress of Su Emperor Palace watched over him.
• After studying the webs, Yang Zhen sensed the approaching Corpse Scutigera and traced out the Great Wilderness Heavenly Restriction as the swarm closed in.
• Yang Zhen and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace vanished, leaving Aotian to face the Corpse Scutigera.
• Yang Zhen returned, whipped Aotian with a snow-white rope, and shattered the webs binding him.
• Great Emperor Aotian attacked the Corpse Scutigera with fire, then recognized Yang Zhen's whip as the Immortal-Binding Rope.

After Great Emperor Aotian took Yang Zhen’s newly forged Divine Treasure whip, the sobbing from within the gate stopped and sent Yang Zhen to a mysterious ancient hall alone. Following a strange call, Yang Zhen discovered a vast ruined world and was attacked as he descended into it.

• Great Emperor Aotian cleared away the Corpse Scutigera and asked the Empress of Su Emperor Palace to lash him with Yang Zhen’s whip.
• The whip’s delayed effect revealed it was a Divine Treasure, and Great Emperor Aotian snatched it while arguing that Yang Zhen owed him for leaving him in danger.
• Yang Zhen said he had made two more finished whips, just as the sobbing from deep within the gate suddenly stopped and transported the three of them.
• Yang Zhen awoke alone in a dark, moss-covered hall and followed a mysterious call through it.
• Yang Zhen reached a high platform overlooking an enormous realm of ruined palaces and stone pillars, then charged toward the call.
• A huge black shadow burst upward and lunged at Yang Zhen with its gaping bloody maw.

Yang Zhen escaped a swarm of giant worms by taking refuge on lotus platforms, then rushed to rescue the Empress of Su Emperor Palace from a mass of ancient corpses. They escaped onto a palace roof, but a strange fragrance made them collapse.

• A giant worm swallowed Yang Zhen, but he knocked out its teeth and escaped after more worms erupted from the ground and chased him.
• Yang Zhen fled into a lotus platform, where the worms could not reach him, then heard the Empress of Su Emperor Palace cry out and ran toward her.
• The Empress of Su Emperor Palace tried to escape a charging horde of metal-skinned corpses, but found that she could not fly in the ruins.
• Yang Zhen caught the empress as she fell and kicked off the corpses repeatedly to propel them both onto a palace roof.
• Yang Zhen and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace saw a tide of corpses below them, then collapsed when a strange fragrance reached them.

Yang Zhen woke beside the Empress of Su Emperor Palace after a mysterious fragrance left them both unconscious, and Qin Luoyi revealed that she had inherited his Saint Physique. She appointed Yang Zhen palace lord and said she wanted to leave the palace with him to seek excitement.

• Yang Zhen collapsed onto the Empress of Su Emperor Palace after inhaling a fragrance, and the two later woke beside each other with their clothes scattered.
• The Empress said what had happened did not count because she had felt nothing, then pinned Yang Zhen down as his Power of Creation surged and strengthened his Saint Physique.
• Qin Luoyi destroyed the palace with a light punch, and Yang Zhen carried her away from the falling rubble.
• Qin Luoyi told Yang Zhen that she had inherited his Saint Physique, likely because of the strange fragrance.
• Qin Luoyi declared Yang Zhen the palace lord of Su Emperor Palace and explained that she wanted to leave with him to explore the world.

Yang Zhen and Qin Luoyi discovered a vast field of Heaven-Shocking Altars, an ancient method the Gods and Devils used to exterminate entire races. Yang Zhen urged Qin Luoyi to join him in destroying the altars, and black lightning struck near them as they approached.

• Qin Luoyi told Yang Zhen about her rebellious nature and her desire to disband the Su Emperor Palace, then pinned him down again.
• Yang Zhen and Qin Luoyi followed a mysterious call into the mountains, where they found thousands of altars bearing enormous human and beast corpses.
• Yang Zhen identified the structures as Heaven-Shocking Altars, and Qin Luoyi explained that the Gods and Devils had used them to refine entire races.
• Yang Zhen and Qin Luoyi decided to defy the Gods and Devils and blow up the altars.
• Yang Zhen challenged the Gods and Devils as a terrifying will pressed down on them, and black lightning struck at their feet.

Yang Zhen and Qin Luoyi destroyed the Heaven-Shocking Altars, provoking a powerful golden figure that unleashed World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment. After the figure struck Yang Zhen with a sword that split the world open, he was swallowed by the void and exiled.

• Yang Zhen and Qin Luoyi smashed nearly all the Heaven-Shocking Altars, then prepared to destroy the last one together.
• A towering golden figure appeared and attacked them with World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment.
• Yang Zhen punched the lightning aside, and a scream from an altar revealed that divine souls were sealed inside the altars.
• Yang Zhen fought the figure while Qin Luoyi broke another altar, and the figure remarked that another one had appeared.
• The golden figure slashed open the world, the void swallowed Yang Zhen, and Qin Luoyi cried out as he was exiled.

Yang Zhen was exiled into a deep void after Qin Luoyi destroyed the final altar, while she remained in the ruins waiting for him. He learned from the void and returned after seven days, just as Qin Luoyi was about to leave.

• Qin Luoyi destroyed the final altar, and Yang Zhen vanished into a void carved open by the golden figure’s sword strike.
• Great Emperor Aotian told Qin Luoyi that another powerful cultivator had escaped a similar void, and Qin Luoyi resolved to wait for Yang Zhen.
• Yang Zhen explored the deep void, used his Void Power to understand true nothingness, and found his way back to his mark.
• Qin Luoyi and Great Emperor Aotian found the Ancient Water of Life's Origin, and Aotian left while Qin Luoyi waited seven days for Yang Zhen.
• Yang Zhen appeared behind Qin Luoyi as she prepared to leave, and she turned and threw herself at him.

Yang Zhen returned from the Gods and Devils Ruins after only seven days, astonishing Great Emperor Aotian, who decided to accompany him to the Three Flowers Holy Land. Qin Luoyi chose to merge the Su Emperor Palace into the Three Flowers Holy Land, and the chapter ended with cultivators gathering around Great Emperor Aotian while Qin Luoyi openly stood beside Yang Zhen.

• Yang Zhen reunited with Qin Luoyi, who told him that Great Emperor Aotian had believed he would remain exiled for as long as a thousand years.
• Great Emperor Aotian arrived, was stunned to see Yang Zhen back, and agreed to travel with him to the Three Flowers Holy Land instead of refining heaven and earth.
• Qin Luoyi announced that she would merge the Su Emperor Palace into the Three Flowers Holy Land, surprising Yang Zhen.
• Yang Zhen, Qin Luoyi, and Great Emperor Aotian left the Gods and Devils Ruins as the Su Emperor Palace celebrated their return.
• Cultivators knelt before Great Emperor Aotian and asked to follow him, while Qin Luoyi linked arms with Yang Zhen and stunned the crowd.

Qin Luoyi made Yang Zhen the palace lord of Su Emperor Palace, and Great Emperor Aotian announced that he and the gathered cultivators would follow Yang Zhen. Yang Zhen led the crowd to the Three Flowers Holy Land, where Nine Dragons Saint Venerable urgently asked whether he had found the Ancient Water of Life's Origin and revealed that something had happened to Empress Fengyu.

• Qin Luoyi declared Yang Zhen the new palace lord of Su Emperor Palace, and Granny and the others accepted him.
• Great Emperor Aotian said he would follow Yang Zhen, prompting the gathered cultivators to hail Yang Zhen as Holy Lord.
• Yang Zhen welcomed the cultivators with a promise of fair treatment and led the growing procession toward the Three Flowers Holy Land.
• Yang Zhen accepted displaced cultivators along the way and sensed their faith through wisps of Power of Faith.
• Hua Youyue, Han Yan'er, and the Third Holy Maiden greeted Yang Zhen and noticed Qin Luoyi with him.
• Nine Dragons Saint Venerable urgently asked Yang Zhen about the Ancient Water of Life's Origin and Empress Fengyu's condition.

Yang Zhen found Empress Fengyu transformed into a powerless old woman, and she revealed that the Gods and Devils had caused the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth. When the World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment threatened the Three Flowers Holy Land, Yang Zhen charged into the sky to protect its people.

• Yang Zhen entered the Emperor's Garden and found Empress Fengyu aged and stripped of her cultivation through forced Mortal Transformation.
• Empress Fengyu told Yang Zhen that the Gods and Devils had brought about the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth to make up for the last one.
• Empress Fengyu explained that survivors of the previous tribulation had escaped by becoming or disguising themselves as mortals, or by refining a world of their own.
• The World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment gathered over the Three Flowers Holy Land, and Empress Fengyu blamed herself for endangering its people.
• Yang Zhen told Empress Fengyu that no one would harm his people and charged into the sky as she wondered how he could protect all twenty thousand of them.

Yang Zhen faced the World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment as it threatened everyone in the Three Flowers Holy Land, while Great Emperor Aotian tried to shield the land and protect the crowd. After Yang Zhen smashed apart one bolt, a thousand more descended, and he split into more than a thousand identical figures, leaving Great Emperor Aotian stunned.

• Great Emperor Aotian conjured a Heaven and Earth True Rune shield over the Three Flowers Holy Land and warned that Yang Zhen would have to handle the rest.
• Yang Zhen charged into the sky and destroyed the first bolt of black lightning with a single punch.
• A thousand bolts of World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment poured from the clouds, and Great Emperor Aotian urged everyone to flee while he held them off.
• Yang Zhen drew in primordial Qi and split into more than a thousand identical figures, astonishing Great Emperor Aotian.

Yang Zhen faced a black Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beast formed from the World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment while Empress Fengyu and the Three Flowers Holy Land watched. He used the Void Heaven Seal to trap the beast, leaving its fate—and the danger to Fengyu—unresolved.

• Yang Zhen smashed more than a thousand bolts of World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment, but the dark clouds absorbed the gathered power and formed a black Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beast.
• Empress Fengyu emerged from the Emperor's Garden, and Shameless Cat told Nine Dragons Saint Venerable that Fengyu could be saved if Yang Zhen defeated the beast within a quarter of an hour.
• Yang Zhen charged the beast and was knocked into the Emperor's Garden, but he soon burst from the ruins and revealed the Void Heaven Seal.
• Yang Zhen appeared behind the beast and used the Great Wilderness Heaven Seal and the Heavenly Sound Grand Chant to seal it.

Yang Zhen sealed the Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beast, turned it into a public attraction, and prepared to seek a life from Heaven for Empress Fengyu. As the Three Flowers Holy Land filled with visitors, a powerful presence arrived from the south and Great Emperor Aotian invited the newcomer to meet him.

• Yang Zhen imprisoned the Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beast beneath layers of restrictions and built a palace around it.
• Yang Zhen told Shameless Cat to publicize the beast as an attraction and asked Great Emperor Aotian to oversee the Three Flowers Holy Land while he sought someone from Heaven.
• Yang Zhen spent the next few days appearing and disappearing as news of the sealed beast spread, drawing visitors and Great Emperors to the Three Flowers Holy Land.
• Hua Youyue established a marketplace as cultivators flocked to see the beast and many chose to stay or settle in the Three Flowers Holy Land.
• A fiery red wave of Qi swept in from the south, and Great Emperor Aotian sensed the powerful arrival and invited the newcomer to visit.

Great Emperor Golden Eagle arrived at the Three Flowers Holy Land on a mutated giant snake and invited Great Emperor Aotian back to the Southern Frontier. After the Heaven-Swallowing Hou attacked the snake to protect Shameless Cat, Golden Eagle learned that Aotian had stayed because of Yang Zhen, and Aotian hinted that Yang Zhen could rival Golden Eagle’s legendary feat.

• Great Emperor Golden Eagle arrived on a three-clawed mutated giant snake and tried to persuade Great Emperor Aotian to return to the Southern Frontier.
• Shameless Cat mocked Golden Eagle’s snake, and Golden Eagle ordered it to attack the cat with freezing breath.
• The Heaven-Swallowing Hou collided with the snake, knocked it away, and then approached Shameless Cat eagerly.
• Great Emperor Aotian introduced Golden Eagle to Shameless Cat and explained that he had stayed for Yang Zhen, not because of the Heaven-Swallowing Hou.
• When Golden Eagle described his destruction of much of the Southern Frontier as a feat of contending with heaven for his fate, Shameless Cat and Aotian implied that Yang Zhen could do the same.

Great Emperor Golden Eagle came to the Three Flowers Holy Land hoping to meet a legendary senior, while Great Emperor Aotian and Shameless Cat let him believe the senior was someone else. The misunderstanding ended when Aotian revealed that Yang Zhen was the person Golden Eagle had come to see.

• Great Emperor Golden Eagle asked Great Emperor Aotian to introduce him to the senior rumored to have made the golden eagle illuminate the sky, and Aotian agreed to lead him over.
• Shameless Cat arrived and offered to take Great Emperor Golden Eagle to the senior, while Aotian avoided correcting Golden Eagle's assumptions.
• People at the Three Flowers Holy Land discussed Golden Eagle's arrival and followed the group to the Emperor's Garden, where Yang Zhen was working.
• Yang Zhen stepped outside, and Great Emperor Golden Eagle politely introduced himself and asked him to announce his visit to the senior inside.
• Yang Zhen asked where the old man had come from, and Great Emperor Aotian revealed that Yang Zhen himself was the senior Golden Eagle wanted to meet.

Yang Zhen prepared to fight heaven for Empress Fengyu’s life, while Great Emperor Golden Eagle learned of the plan and joined the effort. As Flirtatious Chicken’s seclusion caused the mountain to shake, Golden Eagle confronted Yang Zhen about Fengyu’s whereabouts.

• Great Emperor Golden Eagle doubted that Yang Zhen was a senior, then realized Yang Zhen had reached the Emperor Realm at an unusually young age.
• Yang Zhen told Shameless Cat to prepare for a fight against heaven to save an Emperor Realm expert, and Shameless Cat hurried to fetch Flirtatious Chicken.
• Great Emperor Golden Eagle learned that Yang Zhen was trying to save Empress Fengyu and rushed to join him, saying he had fought heaven for a life before.
• Flirtatious Chicken’s emergence shook the mountain, while Great Emperor Golden Eagle arrived and demanded to know where Feng Yu was.
• Nine Dragons Saint Venerable called Golden Eagle World-Honored One and explained that Golden Eagle had once helped him and Empress Fengyu survive.

Yang Zhen brought Great Emperor Golden Eagle to Empress Fengyu, hoping the senior could save her from the Heavenly Yin Evil Soul. Great Emperor Golden Eagle recognized the danger and demanded to know who had caused it, but Empress Fengyu said she had accepted it willingly.

• Great Emperor Golden Eagle offered to fight Heaven for Empress Fengyu's life, and Yang Zhen agreed to let him try.
• Yang Zhen admitted he was only eighty percent confident of saving Empress Fengyu himself and said he would not gamble with her life.
• Yang Zhen led Great Emperor Golden Eagle and the others to Empress Fengyu in the Emperor's Garden and stepped aside for him to act.
• Great Emperor Golden Eagle recognized Empress Fengyu as the World Honored One and discovered that she carried the Heavenly Yin Evil Soul.
• Great Emperor Golden Eagle demanded to know who had done this, and Empress Fengyu said she had accepted it willingly.

Yang Zhen prepared to heal Empress Fengyu after forcing Great Emperor Golden Eagle to apologize and admit he had little chance of treating her himself. A spectacular Golden Crow appeared in the sky, then shrank back into Flirtatious Chicken, who spoke haltingly and drove Shameless Cat away.

• Yang Zhen rebuked Great Emperor Golden Eagle for attacking him, and Golden Eagle apologized so Yang Zhen would help Empress Fengyu.
• Yang Zhen said he was eighty percent confident he could heal Empress Fengyu, while Great Emperor Golden Eagle admitted he had less than a ten percent chance and threatened to overturn the Three Flowers Holy Land if Yang failed.
• A fiery blast shook the area as a colossal Golden Crow appeared overhead, stunning everyone.
• The Golden Crow swooped down and shrank into Flirtatious Chicken, who landed on Yang Zhen's shoulder.
• Shameless Cat grabbed Flirtatious Chicken's tail feathers, but Flirtatious Chicken tossed him aside and then told him to go away.

Yang Zhen prepared to contend with heaven for Empress Fengyu’s life, while Great Emperor Golden Eagle doubted he could succeed. As Empress Fengyu and Nine Dragons Saint Venerable declared their trust in Yang Zhen, the procedure began amid a vast crowd in the Three Flowers Holy Land’s back mountain.

• Yang Zhen repeated that he was eighty percent confident he could cure Empress Fengyu, and Great Emperor Golden Eagle warned he would intervene if Yang Zhen faltered.
• Yang Zhen led Empress Fengyu and the others to the crowded back mountain, where cultivators had gathered to witness him contend with heaven for a life.
• Yang Zhen told Empress Fengyu to sit on a large stump, prompting Great Emperor Golden Eagle to protest that her weakened condition made the plan dangerous.
• Empress Fengyu said she believed in Yang Zhen, and Nine Dragons Saint Venerable and Great Emperor Aotian also expressed their confidence in him.
• A deafening dragon-like roar sounded as countless heaven and earth patterns lit up around Empress Fengyu and the stump.