Recaps

After Hermoz fled the ninth level of the Eternal Ruins, Lin Heng and the others ended their confrontation with the other sea regions. Lin Heng checked in and received the Soaring Dragon Ancient Mirror, but Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches had never heard of it.

• Dijiang explained that Hermoz had forced him back and fled the temporary space, and Lin Heng let the matter rest for now.
• Hongjun left with the injured Liu Yuansheng, while the people of the Southern Spirit Sacred Sea and Eastern Victorious Divine Sea departed.
• Dasiwoba warned Lin Heng that he remained vulnerable until he reached the eternal ages cosmic origin realm, and Lin Heng invited him to the Heavenly Star Sea Region.
• Lin Yue Yao realized Lin Heng and Hongjun had set a trap for Hermoz and Dasiwoba, and Lin Heng reassured Dijiang that Hermoz could be dealt with later.
• Lin Heng checked in at the ninth level of the Eternal Ruins and received the Soaring Dragon Ancient Mirror.
• Lin Heng asked Dijiang and the other eleven Ancestral Witches about the mirror, but none of them recognized it.

Lin Heng found that the ninth-floor stone painting showed a slaughter scene but had been cut off, and he suspected someone had hidden what came next. After Lin Heng left the Eternal Ruins, Mu Tong revealed that the paintings conveyed the Book of Heaven and tacitly acknowledged concealing their continuation.

• Lin Heng asked Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches about the Soaring Dragon Ancient Mirror, but none of them recognized it.
• Lin Heng studied the ninth-floor stone painting and saw a lone swordsman slaughtering countless people before the painting abruptly broke off.
• Lin Heng concluded that someone had concealed the rest of the stone paintings and led Dijiang and the others back toward the Heavenly Star Sea Region.
• Mu Tong entered the Eternal Ruins after Lin Heng had left, and the bronze cauldron's spirit told him the stone paintings appeared beyond its control.
• Mu Tong said the paintings conveyed the Book of Heaven, and the bronze cauldron's spirit realized that Mu Tong had concealed the paintings beyond the break.

Mu Tong planned to keep using Dasiwoba and Hermoz against Lin Heng while the spirit of the bronze cauldron remained in the Four Seas for another month. Back in the Heavenly Star Sea Region, Lin Heng was surprised when Liu Yuansheng offered to serve him on Hongjun’s orders, but he doubted Hongjun’s explanation for sending his powerful disciple.

• Mu Tong admitted he had obscured the stone painting and said he would visit Hermoz after Dasiwoba and Hermoz’s failed scheme against Lin Heng.
• Mu Tong told the spirit of the bronze cauldron to keep drawing attention in the Four Seas for a month before he sent it somewhere safe.
• Lin Heng returned to the Heavenly Star Sea Region, having learned that Liu Yuansheng had gained the Eternal Ruins’ opportunity and suspecting Fate had influenced it.
• Liu Yuansheng knelt before Lin Heng and declared that Hongjun had ordered him to enter Lin Heng’s service.
• Liu Yuansheng explained that serving Lin Heng would help him survive the coming upheaval, and Lin Heng questioned why Hongjun had sent his beloved disciple to him.

Lin Heng weighed the risks of accepting Liu Yuansheng, whom Hongjun had sent to join him, and decided to keep him despite suspecting Hongjun had a hidden purpose. Lin Heng welcomed Liu Yuansheng and gave him the top-tier spirit treasure Soaring Dragon Ancient Mirror.

• Lin Heng asked Dijiang, the Good and Evil Doppelgangers, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches to assess Liu Yuansheng's request to join them.
• Dijiang suspected Hongjun wanted Liu Yuansheng to obtain one of Lin Heng's top-tier spirit treasures and warned that Hongjun was difficult to read.
• Lin Heng decided that keeping Liu Yuansheng was better than rejecting him, whether or not Hongjun had a scheme.
• Lin Heng welcomed Liu Yuansheng into his group, noticing that Liu Yuansheng seemed both surprised and irritated.
• Lin Heng gave Liu Yuansheng the top-tier spirit treasure Soaring Dragon Ancient Mirror.

Lin Heng offered Liu Yuansheng the Soaring Dragon Ancient Mirror, but Liu Yuansheng was frightened by Lin Heng’s power and refused it for now. After Lin Heng revealed that he had used Mu Chen’s divine ability to unleash the pressure of the fifth-layer universe, his claim that he would have given Liu Yuansheng the treasure if he had accepted it left the Ancestral Witches uneasy.

• Lin Heng presented the Soaring Dragon Ancient Mirror to Liu Yuansheng, who feared the offer concealed a dangerous motive and hesitated to take it.
• Liu Yuansheng felt the pressure of Lin Heng’s power, stepped back from the treasure, and asked to rest before rendering service.
• Lin Heng sent his Good Avatar to take Liu Yuansheng away, then told Dijiang and the Ancestral Witches that Mu Chen’s divine ability had let him exert the pressure of the fifth-layer universe.
• Dijiang suggested Lin Heng had never intended to give Liu Yuansheng the mirror, but Lin Heng said he would have handed it over if Liu Yuansheng had accepted it.
• Zhu Rong and the other Ancestral Witches grew uneasy, while Dijiang wondered why Lin Heng had contradicted his attempt to reassure them.

Lin Heng tested Liu Yuansheng by offering him the Soaring Dragon Ancient Mirror, then resolved to remain wary when Liu refused it. At Hermoz’s palace, Mu Tong rebuked Hermoz for ruining his plans and warned him that Hongjun, not Lin Heng, was now the greater concern.

• Lin Heng offered Liu Yuansheng the Soaring Dragon Ancient Mirror, hoping his acceptance would prove his loyalty and help defeat Hermoz and Dasiwoba.
• Liu Yuansheng refused the mirror, and Gonggong warned Lin Heng to stay on guard around him.
• Mu Tong appeared in Hermoz’s palace, bound him, and blamed his recklessness for ruining plans to spark conflict between Lin Heng and Hongjun.
• Hermoz asked whether he should return to the Heavenly Star Sea Region, but Mu Tong told him to stay away and watch Hongjun.
• Mu Tong revealed that Liu Yuansheng had gone alone to the Heavenly Star Sea Region, leaving Hermoz to suspect that Liu’s visit was not what it seemed.

Mu Tong warned Hermoz that Lin Heng and Hongjun’s apparent hostility might have been an act, then urged him to wait for a chance to kill Lin Heng before he reached the eternal ages cosmic origin realm. Hermoz regained his confidence, while Mu Tong left to continue preparing his secret killing move.

• Hermoz realized Lin Heng and Hongjun may have faked their hostility at the Eternal Ruins and angrily set out to confront them.
• Mu Tong stopped Hermoz and warned that he would face Dijiang and Liu Yuansheng if he went alone to the Heavenly Star Sea Region.
• Mu Tong argued that both sides remained evenly matched and said Lin Yue Yao would only intervene if Lin Heng faced mortal danger.
• Hermoz wondered about Hongjun’s true loyalties, but Mu Tong refused to explain his stance.
• Mu Tong told Hermoz to wait for a chance to strike Lin Heng before Lin Heng broke through, then vanished, leaving Hermoz confident again.

Mu Tong visited Hongjun and tried to turn him against Lin Heng by suggesting Lin Heng might become ruler of the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands. Meanwhile, an unidentified woman appeared before Primordial Chaos and asked whether he had forgotten his identity and mission.

• Mu Tong found Hongjun tending his garden and said Primordial Chaos was occupied with an important guest.
• Hongjun dismissed Mu Tong's congratulations about Liu Yuansheng's breakthrough and said he did not care whether Lin Heng advanced or took over his administrative burden.
• Mu Tong suggested Lin Heng might become ruler of the Four Seas, prompting Hongjun to accuse him of trying to sow discord and send him away.
• An unidentified woman appeared uninvited in the fifth layer of the Primordial Chaos Universe.
• The woman told Primordial Chaos that he had forgotten his identity and mission.

Su Jin tried to persuade Primordial Chaos to return to their clan and destroy the beings of his universe, but he rejected her and cast her from the fifth-layer world. Su Jin then encountered Mu Tong in the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea and confronted him with the Linglong Treasure Pagoda.

• Su Jin told Primordial Chaos that they shared a clan, explained that he had created his universe, and identified Mu Tong as the one he called Fate.
• Primordial Chaos considered using Su Jin to learn more about Fate, but attacked when she urged him to destroy the beings of his universe.
• Su Jin absorbed Primordial Chaos's attack with a dark green ring, was injured, and was sent out of the fifth-layer world by Primordial Chaos.
• Su Jin appeared on an island in the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea, where she recognized Mu Tong and ordered him to return to the clan to answer for his crimes.
• Su Jin raised the Linglong Treasure Pagoda, and Mu Tong showed wariness at the sight of it.

Mu Tong broke free of Su Jin’s Linglong Treasure Pagoda with the Four Symbols Limitless and spared her before escaping. At the Western Celebratory Demon Sea, he told Dasiwoba to wait for a chance against Lin Heng and claimed Hongjun would one day kill him.

• Su Jin trapped Mu Tong in the Linglong Treasure Pagoda, but Mu Tong used the Four Symbols Limitless to bombard the light barrier with lightning.
• Mu Tong broke through the weakened barrier after Su Jin collapsed, then spared her to avoid drawing the attention of the clan elders and vanished.
• Su Jin was too injured to pursue Mu Tong and suspected Primordial Chaos had caused her misfortune.
• At the blood-colored palace, Dasiwoba blamed Hermoz’s rash actions for the events at the Eternal Ruins, while Mu Tong said Lin Heng and Hongjun would likely have staged their response regardless.
• Mu Tong urged Dasiwoba to wait until Lin Heng was vulnerable and claimed Hongjun would eventually kill Lin Heng himself.
• Dasiwoba questioned whether Hongjun would dare defy Primordial Chaos, since betraying his trusted master could bring severe consequences.

Mu Tong told Dasiwoba that a great opportunity could let the Lords of the Four Seas reach Mu Chen’s former level and might give Dasiwoba his best chance to deal with Lin Heng. After Lin Heng went to the island where he had once met Su Jin, he found her injured there.

• Dasiwoba doubted Mu Tong’s claim that Hongjun might kill Lin Heng, but Mu Tong changed the subject and urged him to prepare.
• Mu Tong revealed that a great opportunity would appear, warned that many would compete for it, and said it could be Dasiwoba’s last chance to deal with Lin Heng.
• After Mu Tong vanished, Dasiwoba considered how the opportunity could plunge the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands into slaughter.
• In the Heavenly Star Sea Region, Lin Heng went out alone to think and found himself at the nameless island where he had once met Su Jin.
• Lin Heng saw Su Jin with blood at the corner of her mouth and asked what she was doing there.

Lin Heng rejected Su Jin’s plan to destroy the living beings of the Primordial Chaos Universe and warned that he would treat her race as enemies if she pursued it. As Su Jin’s life began to fail, she realized Mu Tong had secretly poisoned her and understood that he had waited for her to meet Lin Heng before striking.

• Su Jin told Lin Heng she had proposed that Primordial Chaos destroy the universe’s living beings to stop Fate, and Lin Heng grew hostile despite her claim that she would protect those close to him.
• Lin Heng warned Su Jin that anyone seeking to destroy the Primordial Chaos Universe would be his enemy, then left.
• Su Jin collapsed as her life force rapidly drained, and the pills she took did nothing to stop it.
• Su Jin recalled Mu Tong’s attack on the Linglong Treasure Pagoda and realized its shockwave had planted energy that was now destroying her vitality.
• Mu Tong mocked Su Jin from the void, and she understood he had waited to make his move until after she met Lin Heng.

Su Jin realized Mu Tong had trapped her to frame Lin Heng and prevent her clan from joining forces with him, while Lin Heng continued searching for answers about Fate’s motives. Jian Yin appeared, warned Lin Heng of an impending phenomenon, and gave him an arrow pendant before vanishing.

• Su Jin tried to send a message to her clan, but Mu Tong revealed he had sealed the space and left her trapped to die.
• Lin Heng wondered why both Su Jin and Fate wanted the Primordial Chaos Universe’s living beings destroyed, but found no answers.
• Jian Yin stopped Lin Heng and said a phenomenon would appear in the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands within ten days.
• Jian Yin urged Lin Heng to stand by what he had told Su Jin, promised to help him if he did, and threatened to kill him if he did not.
• Jian Yin gave Lin Heng an arrow pendant and disappeared before Lin Heng could question him.
• Lin Heng concealed the pendant beneath his clothes, trusting his instinct that it could help him.

Lin Heng learned that the Eternal Ruins had remained in the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands and suspected Fate had turned them into a trap connected to Jian Yin’s predicted heavenly phenomenon. He ordered his allies to prepare for a great battle and urged Liu Yuansheng to prove his worth, leaving the scale and target of the coming conflict uncertain.

• The Good Avatar told Lin Heng that the Eternal Ruins had not disappeared after their latest breakthrough opportunity, and Lin Heng joined Dijiang and the others to discuss the anomaly.
• Lin Heng recalled Jian Yin’s prediction of a heavenly phenomenon within ten days and concluded that Fate was likely behind the Eternal Ruins’ lingering presence and was setting a trap for him.
• Lin Heng warned that a great battle might be coming and ordered everyone to prepare, prompting the Evil Avatar and Zhu Rong to argue over who would get to fight.
• When Dijiang asked how they should respond to a major event, Lin Heng said the Twelve Ancestral Witches could fight as much as they liked if the entire Four Seas became involved.
• Lin Heng reminded Liu Yuansheng that he had refused a top-grade spirit treasure as an unearned reward and told him this was his chance to prove himself, making Liu Yuansheng wonder whether Lin Heng planned to target the Lord of the Four Seas.

Liu Yuansheng joined Lin Heng at the Eternal Ruins, where a mysterious phenomenon announced a trial for those able to ascend a heavenly ladder. Lin Heng recognized the offer as a trap, but chose to enter it so he could draw out whoever was behind it.

• Liu Yuansheng asked Hongjun for advice about Lin Heng’s plan, and Hongjun told him to do as Lin Heng said.
• Lin Heng arrived at the Eternal Ruins with the Good and Evil Doppelgangers, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Liu Yuansheng, whose presence alongside Lin Heng alarmed Dasiwoba and Hermoz.
• A twelve-hour phenomenon ended with a voice inviting those who could ascend the heavenly ladder to enter a trial and join its race.
• Dijiang asked Lin Heng what he thought of the invitation, and Lin Heng said they should enter the trap to expose the one who had set it.

A multicolored Heavenly Ladder appeared, offering three places in a mysterious race to cultivators who reached specific levels first. Lin Heng proposed that each faction choose a representative to compete for the first attempt, and the chapter ended as Zhu Rong and the Evil Avatar made an unexpected choice.

• A voice announced that the first cultivators to reach the ninetieth, ninety-fifth, and ninety-ninth levels would earn places with increasingly valuable rewards.
• Two Eternal Realm cultivators rushed toward the Heavenly Ladder and were killed by attacks from the crowd.
• Lin Heng proposed that each faction choose a representative to compete, with Eternal Ages Cosmic Origin Realm cultivators barred from the first round.
• Hongjun and the other Lords of the Four Seas agreed, and their factions chose Du Feng, Zhong Fan, Milexius, and Yue Ling as representatives.
• Lin Heng's side chose Zhu Rong and the Evil Avatar, who then made an unexpected choice.

Lin Heng set the contest for the Heavenly Ladder as an arena defense, with one fighter required to defeat all four challengers. The Evil Avatar volunteered, suppressed his cultivation to match the Four Seas' representatives, and used the Fuxi Bow to stop Zhong Fan before their fight could begin.

• The Evil Avatar won a rock-paper-scissors contest against Zhu Rong to decide who would fight.
• Lin Heng ruled that one fighter must defend the arena and defeat all four other representatives to qualify for the Heavenly Ladder.
• The Evil Avatar offered to defend the arena and agreed to suppress his cultivation to the Late Stage of the Indestructible Realm after Dasiwoba protested the disparity.
• Zhong Fan challenged the Evil Avatar, but when the Evil Avatar aimed the Fuxi Bow at him, Zhong Fan backed down and complained that using a top-grade spirit treasure was unfair.
• The Evil Avatar rejected Zhong Fan's complaint and asked why others should be barred from using a treasure simply because Zhong Fan had none.

Lin Heng defended the Evil Avatar’s use of the Fuxi Bow, arguing that equipping his avatar with a top-tier spirit treasure was fair. The debate ended when an explosion over the sea revealed Zhong Fan fleeing in panic.

• Zhong Fan realized the Evil Avatar’s Fuxi Bow made him nearly impossible to defeat alone and hesitated to advance or retreat.
• Dasiwoba prepared to ask Hongjun to withdraw the artifact, but Hermoz accused Lin Heng of unfairly giving his avatar a top-tier spirit treasure.
• Lin Heng countered that no rule forbade top-tier spirit treasures and produced the Pangu Axe, prompting resentment from the other representatives.
• Lin Heng argued that Dasiwoba had also rewarded Zhong Fan with a spirit treasure, and Dasiwoba fell silent rather than challenge him further.
• An explosion erupted over the sea, and everyone saw a figure fleeing in panic from the battle space where the Evil Avatar and Zhong Fan fought.

Lin Heng’s Evil Avatar killed Zhong Fan with the Fuxi Arrow, prompting Dasiwoba to threaten Lin Heng before Dijiang and Liu Yuansheng intervened. Hongjun revealed that Liu Yuansheng had joined the Heavenly Star Sea Region, then declared Lin Heng’s avatar the winner and called for the next challenger.

• Lin Heng defended the Evil Avatar’s apparent taunting of Zhong Fan, and Dasiwoba prepared to ask Hongjun to withdraw the treasure.
• The Evil Avatar shot Zhong Fan through the chest with the Fuxi Arrow, killing him as Dasiwoba tried to make him surrender.
• Dasiwoba accused Lin Heng of killing Zhong Fan deliberately, but Dijiang and Liu Yuansheng threatened to fight him.
• Hongjun announced that Liu Yuansheng had joined the Heavenly Star Sea Region, leaving Dasiwoba silent.
• Hongjun declared Lin Heng’s avatar the victor and asked for the next challenger, while the remaining representatives hesitated to face the Fuxi Arrow.

After Zhong Fan’s death, the remaining sea representatives withdrew rather than face the Evil Avatar’s Fuxi Bow. Lin Heng realized Fate had secretly planted a heart demon that could push him toward destroying the Primordial Chaos Universe, while the Evil Avatar prepared to climb the Heavenly Ladder.

• The representatives of the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea and the other two seas forfeited the battle after seeing the Fuxi Bow kill Zhong Fan.
• Cultivators complained that Lin Heng let his Heavenly Star Sea Region use top-grade spirit treasures to kill others, and their words stirred an unusual reaction in him.
• Lin Heng recognized that Fate had planted a heart demon connected to the Primordial Chaos Universe, and he told Dijiang he would resist it and seek a way to remove it after advancing.
• Dijiang recalled a Buddhist Sect heart sutra among the old master's treasures, but Lin Heng doubted it could dispel Fate's handiwork.
• After Hongjun withdrew his magical treasure, the Evil Avatar returned, learned that all his opponents had withdrawn, and turned toward the Heavenly Ladder.
• Hermoz urged the Evil Avatar to begin climbing so he could judge whether he himself could reach the ninety-ninth step.

With the representatives of the three seas withdrawing, Lin Heng’s Evil Avatar climbed the Heavenly Ladder while the gathered experts watched to judge their own chances. After reaching the seventy-second step, he appeared to be gaining insight into the soul, and the Good Avatar suggested the climb might let him break through to the Eternal Ages Cosmic Origin Realm.

• The Evil Avatar mocked the watching experts as he approached the Heavenly Ladder and stepped onto its first steps.
• The Evil Avatar climbed to the fiftieth step, where the growing force made each step increasingly heavy.
• The Evil Avatar reached the seventy-first step, paused, then continued to the seventy-second step and stopped again.
• Dijiang asked Lin Heng whether the Evil Avatar had reached his limit, but Lin Heng sensed that he had not.
• The Good Avatar explained that the ladder tested a cultivator’s soul beyond the seventieth step and said the Evil Avatar was gaining insight.
• Dijiang asked Lin Heng whether Fate had created the Heavenly Ladder for a deeper purpose, concerned for the other Ancestral Witches who wanted to climb it.

The Evil Avatar slowly climbed the Heavenly Ladder, keeping the Four Seas cultivators anxious about whether he would claim a recruitment spot. Lin Heng revealed that the Evil Avatar was pretending to struggle, and he told the Twelve Ancestral Witches they could try the ladder afterward as long as they did not take one of its three spots.

• The Evil Avatar reached the eightieth level and continued climbing with increasingly long pauses, prompting the Four Seas cultivators to worry about his limit and the recruitment spots.
• Dijiang threatened the cultivators who shouted at the Evil Avatar, and Dasiwoba and Hermoz ordered their subordinates to stay quiet.
• The Evil Avatar appeared unable to step onto the eighty-sixth level, then finally placed his foot there after several dozen breaths.
• Lin Heng told Dijiang that the Evil Avatar had deliberately pretended to struggle, leaving the Twelve Ancestral Witches surprised that he had fooled them too.
• Lin Heng told the Twelve Ancestral Witches they could try the Heavenly Ladder afterward but must not take any of its three spots.

Lin Heng’s Evil Avatar withdrew from the Heavenly Ladder just before reaching the ninetieth level, ending the first round. As the Eternal Ages Cosmic Origin Realm experts prepared for the next round, Hongjun also withdrew, leaving Dijiang to represent the Heavenly Star Sea Region.

• After lingering on the eighty-sixth level for a day and night, the Evil Avatar climbed to the eighty-ninth level, then turned back and flew down beside Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng declined to explain the Evil Avatar’s choice and announced that the Heavenly Star Sea Region’s representative had left the Heavenly Ladder.
• As the second-round contestants were chosen, Liu Yuansheng yielded his place to Dijiang, who agreed to take part.
• Hermoz and Dasiwoba turned their attention toward Hongjun, but Hongjun withdrew from the trial.
• Lin Heng suspected Hongjun had withdrawn to avoid arousing Primordial Chaos’s suspicion.

Hongjun withdrew from the Heavenly Ladder contest, leaving Dijiang, Hermoz, Dasiwoba, and Lin Yue Yao to compete for the remaining places. Dijiang and Hermoz began their long-awaited battle, which ended the chapter with Hermoz struggling under Dijiang’s opening blow.

• Hongjun voluntarily withdrew from the contest, and Lin Heng recognized the sacrifice behind his choice.
• Dijiang challenged Hermoz to finish their interrupted battle, and the remaining matchups were set: Hermoz against Dijiang and Dasiwoba against Lin Yue Yao.
• Hongjun enclosed Dijiang and Hermoz in his magical treasure as they faced off over the sea before the gathered cultivators.
• Hermoz tried to unsettle Dijiang by urging him to kill Lin Heng and claim Mu Chen’s inheritance, but Dijiang dismissed Hermoz’s ambitions and mocked his limitations.
• Hermoz’s pressure faltered, giving Dijiang an opening to attack; Dijiang struck Hermoz’s raised weapon with a heavy blow that made Hermoz’s legs bend.

Dijiang and Hermoz fought without holding back, and Hermoz trapped Dijiang inside the Heaven Lock Glazed Staff’s Infinite Space. After discovering that the realm restored its destruction and seemed to have no edge, Dijiang launched his strongest attack to try to break it.

• Dijiang struck Hermoz with his top-grade spirit treasure, forcing Hermoz to kneel in midair before Hermoz counterattacked and retreated.
• Hermoz activated the Heaven Lock Glazed Staff’s divine ability, Infinite Space, surrounding Dijiang with an emerald-green realm.
• Dijiang found himself in a vast forest, destroyed its trees and ground, and watched them return to their original state.
• Dijiang searched the realm with his soul but could not find an edge in any direction.
• Dijiang unleashed his strongest attack on the ground, destroying everything within ten thousand li as dust and smoke filled the sky.