Recaps

Yang Zhen helped Hua Youyue restore her Spirit Root, then survived her Heavenly Tribulation and killed the Flower Mountain Blessed Land elders who attacked them. After promising to collect Hua Youyue’s debt from Lin Tianli, Yang Zhen went to White Cloud Mountain, where he drew out five Spirit Wandering Realm experts and began fighting them.

• Yang Zhen opened the East Sea Dragon Palace and entered with Shameless Cat and a Sea Dragon Clan elder, while news of his connection to the Great Emperor’s inheritance spread.
• Ye Zhiming and Hua Youyue discussed her damaged Spirit Root as Gu Langyun arrived and challenged her, but Yang Zhen returned and offered to repair it.
• Yang Zhen gave Hua Youyue an Ageless Tree leaf, Spirit Source Dew, and Golden Lotus Heavenly Fire, and she shattered her damaged Spirit Root to form a new one.
• Yang Zhen broke through to the Void Refinement Realm and drew Hua Youyue’s Heavenly Tribulation onto himself, using its lightning to defeat four attackers from Flower Mountain Blessed Land.
• Yang Zhen killed Elder Wang and the other Flower Mountain Blessed Land cultivators, while Hua Youyue completed her transformation and Elder Gu identified her new Spirit Root as the Heavenly Fragrance Sacred Root.
• Hua Youyue revealed that Lin Tianli had nearly destroyed her foundation over the Heavenly Fortune Sacred Scale, and Yang Zhen vowed to collect her debt on the Spirit Road.
• Yang Zhen traveled to White Cloud Mountain, discovered that surrounding mountains had sealed its Primordial Gate, and spent half a month creating terrain nexuses before waiting for visitors.
• Five Spirit Wandering Realm experts came to White Cloud Mountain, and Yang Zhen fought Elder Dai and the others after pretending that a Great Emperor’s inheritance lay beneath his feet.

Yang Zhen defeated the forces that came to White Cloud Mountain, then rushed to Evil Spirit Island after learning Hua Youyue had awakened an Ancient Bloodline and entered the Spirit Road. He endured the Supreme Mandate of Heaven’s waterfalls, reached the golden road with Shameless Cat, and left Young Master Feng preparing to follow them.

• Yang Zhen captured five Spirit Wandering Realm experts and demanded their sects ransom them, then used the Six Harmonies Killing Formation to defeat the rescuers and learned Hua Youyue had gone to Evil Spirit Island.
• Yang Zhen found out Hua Youyue had awakened an Ancient Bloodline and headed for Spirit Peak, so he and his companions traveled to Spirit Essence City and entered the Spirit Road.
• Yang Zhen chose the Heavenly Mandate Road, met Spirit Maiden Hongluan and Xiu'er, and watched Lin Tianli get swept into the road after Yang Zhen distracted him beneath its waterfalls.
• Yang Zhen entered the Supreme Mandate of Heaven and swallowed its dark Heavenly Might Waterfalls, then endured the golden-threaded torrents until he achieved the First Dragon-Elephant.
• Shameless Cat entered the Supreme Mandate of Heaven after enduring twenty streams of heavenly might, while Yang Zhen reached the golden Spirit Road and refined its power without raising his cultivation.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat fought through herds of golden beasts and collected their golden balls, while Young Master Feng decided to enter the Supreme Mandate of Heaven and tried licking its heavenly might.

Yang Zhen claimed the Heavenly Mandate Spring and the Gen Metal True Rune Origin, killed Mo Tianya, and avenged Hua Youyue by killing Lin Tianli. His journey toward Spirit Peak stalled at Snake Road, where Mo Xueling raised the subject of the Desolate Heaven True Rune.

• Yang Zhen left the golden Spirit Road with many Golden Life Orbs, defeated and robbed a scarred young man, and found the Heavenly Mandate Spring.
• Yang Zhen demonstrated a superior Yin-Yang Diagram to Young Master Feng and tricked him into handing over a dozen Golden Life Orbs.
• Yang Zhen overwhelmed Mo Tianya’s cultivation vortex, revealed three hundred Golden Life Orbs, and used the spring’s power to take Mo Tianya’s orbs and force him outside.
• Yang Zhen discovered the Gen Metal True Rune Origin, compressed the Heavenly Mandate Spring into a pattern in his hand, and killed Mo Tianya when he attacked.
• Yang Zhen reached Hua Youyue on Spirit Peak, challenged Lin Tianli on the restricted stone steps, and beat him to death after forcing him to apologize to her.
• Yang Zhen climbed through the thunderfire with Hua Youyue and chased the rooster revealed when the Golden Crow exploded.
• Yang Zhen learned that Celestial Venerable Ziwei blocked passage and tried unsuccessfully to solve Snake Road’s restrictions as a math problem.
• Mo Xueling questioned Yang Zhen about the Gen Metal True Rune and mentioned the Desolate Heaven True Rune, but withheld an explanation when he asked about it.

Yang Zhen challenged Celestial Venerable Ziwei, crossed the Spirit Peak ruins, and obtained the Earth Treasury Chapter. After joining the Fang Household’s journey to North Isle, he helped Yang Hongye reclaim her household’s standing and began restoring Hanwu City’s ancestral stele.

• Yang Zhen confronted Celestial Venerable Ziwei to protect Hua Youyue, survived Ziwei’s Divine Sense attacks, and agreed to accompany Hua Youyue to the Forbidden Zone of Life.
• Yang Zhen solved Snake Road by redirecting its beam with mirrors, then reached the Spirit Peak ruins and discovered a hall filled with kneeling skeletons and a Saint Sword that chose Hua Youyue.
• Yang Zhen searched the ruins for the Nameless Domain, entered Mo Fan’s cabin, and obtained the Heavenly Book: Earth Treasury Chapter from a primordial wilderness.
• Yang Zhen emerged underground into a battle between the Fang Household and Yang Hongye, restrained the attackers, and joined their party on its journey to North Isle.
• Yang Zhen confronted the Fang Household over its attack on the Yang Household, defeated its patriarch and the Hanwu Guards, and persuaded Hanwu City’s lord to support Yang Hongye.
• Yang Hongye became head of the Yang Household, and Hanwu City’s lord helped her reclaim the Wang Household’s businesses before asking Yang Zhen to inspect the failing Ancestral Stele.
• Yang Zhen identified the formations and Yuan Zheng’s interference affecting the ancestral grounds, then used Han Yan’er’s Sun Shadow Sword to carve new Literary Talent Qi Inscriptions into the stele.