Recaps

Yang Zhen joined Gong Sanhe’s group in search of the Heavenly Secret Lock, subdued Death Shadow and freed the death servants from their Technique Talismans, then changed the formation guarding the lock. Inside, the group reached a chamber with a huge coffin and sacrificial inscriptions.

• Yang Zhen subdued a black-cloaked cultivator who invoked Moluola before dying, then discovered a dark rune briefly appearing beneath his skin.
• Yang Zhen met Gong Sanhe, Ding Chun, and Wen Yuning, pretended to be Li Cangxu, and learned they were searching for the Heavenly Secret Lock with the help of the Earth Treasury Technique.
• Yang Zhen used Gong Sanhe’s compass to locate the lock, led the group through the dangerous mountain, and confronted Death Shadow and his death warriors.
• Yang Zhen defeated Death Shadow, extracted his own Technique Talisman, and showed the death servants how to remove theirs in exchange for their oaths of allegiance.
• Yang Zhen identified the formation guarding the Heavenly Secret Lock and changed its terrain, revealing the structure to the group.
• Yang Zhen and his companions entered the lock, followed a path through its maze, and heard an eerie sound that Yang Zhen believed came from a buried Great Saint.
• Death Shadow stepped into a chamber of doorways and was swallowed by a restriction, but Yang Zhen disrupted it by sending waves of Qi through the hall.
• The group found Death Shadow sprawled on a huge coffin, and Yang Zhen recognized its patterns as sacrificial inscriptions while Gong Sanhe traced them to the Southern Frontier.

Yang Zhen broke through the Heavenly Secrets Bridge and led his companions into the ancient battlefield, where they uncovered signs of the Demon Race and a dangerous altar. The arc ended with the Ancient Life Sect’s Duan Xingzhi challenging Yang Zhen’s authority and ordering his disciples to attack him.

• Yang Zhen confronted Yin Shadow and Yang Shadow at the Heavenly Secret Lock, then fled the awakened coffin creature with a glass bead that strengthened its pursuit.
• Yang Zhen found Hua Youyue injured and fought Duan Sihai, while the insect puppet attacked Li Cangxu and kept Duan Sihai occupied.
• Yang Zhen mastered the Heavenly Secrets Technique, broke the Heavenly Secrets Bridge’s restriction, and carried Hua Youyue through its Nine Transformations.
• Yang Zhen and his companions entered the ancient battlefield, learned that the Heaven and Earth Shackles might lie beneath the mountain range, and encountered Han Yan’er and a snow fox.
• Yang Zhen pursued the snow fox and discovered the Ancient Spirit Clan’s flying boat plunging toward an altar within the Land of Nine Dragons Quehua.
• Yang Zhen split the flying boat with the Great Deficiency Sword and warned that the altar might seal a powerful Demon Race being.
• The holy lords prepared to report the Demon Race’s return, but Duan Xingzhi rejected Yang Zhen’s leadership and ordered the Ancient Life Sect’s disciples to kill him.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er blasted Duan Xingzhi away, and Gong Sanhe warned him that Yang Zhen had not even struck him.

Yang Zhen returned to the Beiqi inheritance ground to save Jue’er’s sister and entered the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison to seize the Heart of Heaven and Earth. After surviving Heavenly Punishment and opening his seventh dragon elephant, he began Dao Entry and declared he would create a Dao of his own as the prison erupted.

• Yang Zhen defeated Duan Xingzhi, who died striking the altar and triggered upheaval across the Land of Nine Dragons Quehua.
• Yang Zhen returned to the ruined battlefield with Shameless Cat to search for Flirtatious Chicken, then encountered Jiajia and the newly emerged Demon Race.
• Yang Zhen entered the Beiqi inheritance ground, followed a little fox into the magma, and learned that Que’er was meant to be sacrificed to release the departed souls.
• Yang Zhen challenged heaven to stop the Tomb of Departed Souls, endured Heavenly Punishment, opened the Sixth Dragon Elephant, and persuaded the Beiqi ancestors to spare their clan.
• Yang Zhen entered the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison seeking the Heart of Heaven and Earth, but its will rejected him and he appeared to have died.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan’er reached the prison to find Yang Zhen, who emerged within a storm of lightning and fire and shattered Heavenly Punishment with the Great Deficiency Sword.
• Yang Zhen destroyed a Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beast with the Heaven-Extinguishing Finger, then opened the seventh dragon elephant while attempting Dao Entry.
• Yang Zhen found that no Dao in the world belonged to him, declared that he would create his own Dao, and caused heaven and earth to erupt.

Yang Zhen returned after a year in the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison, defended Hua Youyue against the five clans, and revealed that he had created his own Dao. After investigating the Three Flowers Sacred Hall and receiving a mysterious gray bead, he faced the clans' challenge and helped Fu Kun advance through a Dao debate.

• Yang Zhen remained sealed in the Thunder Marsh Fire Prison for a year while primordial Qi multiplied and ancient sects emerged.
• Hua Youyue agreed to enter the Three Flowers Sacred Hall to spare the Beiqi Clan from the five clans' attack.
• Yang Zhen returned and reunited with Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er inside the Three Flowers Sacred Hall.
• Yang Zhen improved Heavenly Nether Divine Cloud Movement for Han Yan'er, who used it to defeat and kill Lu Guihai.
• Yang Zhen unleashed his own Dao against the five clans, killed Huo Rong and Jian Long, and drove the survivors away.
• Yang Zhen investigated the chained platform with Shameless Cat, heard a mysterious voice, and received a gray bead that entered his body.
• Yang Zhen stabilized the collapsing Three Flowers Sacred Hall, and Hua Youyue activated it to send the gathered cultivators outside.
• Yang Zhen accepted Fu Kun's Dao debate under pressure from Bai Shengbo and Tai Zhongquan, and his questions helped Fu Kun advance his Dao and cultivation.