Recaps

Li Qingshan granted the dragon soul a Dao Seed, then studied the Tathagata Kasaya and formed a preliminary Primordial Cause Dao Fruit. Having gained the insight he sought, he prepared to leave the Yang God World, leaving Hong Yi and the coming political struggle to their own fates.

• Li Qingshan gave the dragon soul a Spiritual Light Dao Seed and opened a rift so it could begin a new life through reincarnation.
• Li Qingshan examined the Tathagata Kasaya, whose artifact spirit allowed him to study the scriptures and mysteries engraved within it.
• Li Qingshan comprehended the Great Dao of Cause and Effect and formed a preliminary Primordial Cause Dao Fruit.
• Li Qingshan considered using his insight into Cause and Effect as a foundation for the unfinished Dao Yi Seal, while deciding not to force further progress.
• Li Qingshan foresaw Hong Yi's return to Jade Capital City and the coming clash over the imperial examination and new tax policy, but chose not to intervene.
• Li Qingshan decided to leave the Yang God World and began to fade from the ruins of the Great Zen Temple.

As Li Qingshan traveled the Starry Sky Ancient Road toward Earth, the Beginningless Bell awakened and confirmed that Earth was the Primordial Ancient Star, once home to the Kunlun Immortal Land. The Bell recounted how the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains drained Earth to nurture the Green Cauldron, leaving the ancient star depleted as Li Qingshan continued his journey home.

• Li Qingshan reflected on the universe’s vast age and solitude as he crossed the stars.
• The Beginningless Bell awakened in Li Qingshan’s Immortal Platform and spoke about the passage of time.
• Li Qingshan told the Bell that Earth lay roughly four hundred light-years ahead, and the Bell identified it as the Primordial Ancient Star.
• The Beginningless Bell explained that Emperor Zun and the Nether Emperor had arranged the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains in Kunlun to nurture the Immortal Ascension Cauldron.
• The Bell recounted how the mountains drained life-bearing stars, including Earth, while the Feathered Divine Dynasty and the Ruthless Great Emperor later fought over the Green Cauldron fragments.
• Li Qingshan listened as the Bell described how Earth’s spiritual Qi would remain depleted until Ye Fan eventually removed the Green Cauldron fragment from the Immortal Ascension Ground.

Li Qingshan continued his journey along the Starry Sky Ancient Road, battling a hostile alien clan and uncovering its ancient ties to Earth. After six years of travel, he reached the outer edge of the Sun System and saw Earth, leaving him about two months from home.

• Li Qingshan repaired damaged Five-Colored Altars and crossed the star regions, completing three more years of his journey.
• Li Qingshan crushed a group of antlike attackers and learned from their memories that they were descendants of invaders who had fought Earth’s people at Hangu Pass.
• The Beginningless Bell explained that the Flying Immortal Remnant Clan belonged to the Kunlun Remnant Clan, whose ancestors had been driven from Kunlun by Emperor Zun.
• The Beginningless Bell sensed that they had nearly crossed the KBC Void, and Li Qingshan used his Heavenly Eye to spot the Sun System and Earth about three light-years away.
• Li Qingshan estimated that traveling at close to full speed would bring him to Earth in about two months.

Li Qingshan returned to Mars and discovered that the ancient battlefield he first saw was only a trace of the past reflected by the Five-Colored Altar. At the ruins of the Great Thunderclap Temple, he recognized the ghostly figures as sealed Temple-Guarding Demon Gods and exposed the foundation beneath them.

• Li Qingshan traveled from Pluto to Mars using the Movement character secret and saw a vision of an ancient battlefield that he dispelled with his divine sense.
• He recognized the Five-Colored Altar and the nearby marker for Mars, recalling that Ye Fan and the other students had passed the site eleven years earlier.
• Li Qingshan set out for the buried ruins of the Great Thunderclap Temple, where he found remnants of the Bodhi Sacred Tree.
• Ghostly figures appeared among the ruins, then vanished and reappeared as several demonic silhouettes.
• Li Qingshan identified them as Temple-Guarding Demon Gods sealed into the foundation by Shakyamuni and swept away the rubble covering it.

Li Qingshan explored the first two levels of hell beneath the Great Thunderclap Temple on Yinghuo Ancient Star and took a ghost lantern from the second level. After he returned to the surface, a vast black sea and eerie ghost ships suddenly appeared.

• Li Qingshan descended into the first level of hell, examined the Demon-Refining Pillars and Crocodile Ancestor’s discarded scales, then entered the second level.
• Li Qingshan confronted the gaunt old ghost guarding a stone coffin, and it dissolved beneath his gaze before retreating into an ancient bronze ghost lantern.
• Li Qingshan recognized the ghost lantern as a coffin-suppressing artifact and stored it in his Bitter Sea, where Xuanhuang Qi subdued it.
• Li Qingshan returned to the surface, where a black ocean surged across Yinghuo Ancient Star and swallowed the Five-Colored Altar and Great Thunderclap Temple ruins.
• Several ancient ghost ships appeared in the waves as thick gray-white fog spread across the sea and obscured them.

Li Qingshan explored the black sea that appeared within Mars’s Demon Sea Eye and destroyed the undead and ghost ships that attacked him. With the fleet purified, he turned his attention toward the sea’s deepest darkness.

• Li Qingshan boarded an ancient ship and found the remains of its dead crew and five blood effigies sealed in a black-jade pool.
• An ancient corpse attacked Li Qingshan, but he crushed it with a casual swing.
• Five blood corpses emerged from the pool, and Li Qingshan burned them away with golden divine fire.
• Li Qingshan shattered the ship’s bronze ghost lantern, drawing the other ghost ships toward him.
• Li Qingshan destroyed the approaching ghost-ship fleet with a single golden punch and looked toward the ultimate darkness of the black sea.

Li Qingshan faced a horde of ancient war ghosts that emerged from nine enormous ships in the black sea. He erased the ships, ghosts, and Half-Saint ghost generals with a single Saint Dao palm strike, leaving the sea calm around his boat.

• Nine ancient ships appeared through the mist and unleashed countless ghost corpses into the sea.
• Li Qingshan recognized the ghosts as ancient war souls preserved and revived by the Yin forces of Yinghuo Ancient Star.
• The corpse tide and several Half-Saint ghost generals surrounded Li Qingshan’s boat.
• Li Qingshan summoned a vast golden palm woven from Saint Dao Laws and destroyed the ghost army and nine ships.
• Li Qingshan withdrew his hand as calm returned to the black sea.

Li Qingshan encountered a luminous Buddhist ship carrying five hundred dead golden-bodied arhats, whose lingering power purified the sea. When Mars’s hidden Demon Sea Eye activated at the north pole, the ocean collapsed toward it, sweeping Li Qingshan and the ship into the vortex.

• Li Qingshan saw a radiant Buddhist vessel emerge from the darkness and discovered five hundred lifeless golden-bodied monks aboard it.
• The ship’s remaining Buddhist power cleansed the baleful Qi left by the destroyed ghost tide while Li Qingshan approached without hostility from the vessel.
• A tremendous force from Yinghuo Ancient Star’s north pole churned the sea and pulled the Buddhist ship northward.
• Li Qingshan recognized that the Demon Sea Eye had been triggered and let the force carry him onward.
• The black sea receded into torrents that plunged into the enormous north-pole sea eye, sweeping the Buddhist ship toward its destructive vortex.

Li Qingshan faced Crocodile Ancestor after the Demon Sea Eye closed and the ancient demon broke free, learning that Crocodile Ancestor had planned to enter it for an immortal treasure. Crocodile Ancestor recognized Li Qingshan and coveted his Xuanhuang Mother Qi Source, setting the stage for their confrontation.

• Crocodile Ancestor erupted from the Demon Sea Eye, furious that Li Qingshan had disrupted its opening and ruined his plan to obtain an immortal treasure.
• Li Qingshan recognized Crocodile Ancestor and judged that the Demon Sea Eye held the remains of an ancient Road to Immortality and dangers connected to the Undying Heavenly Emperor.
• Li Qingshan mocked Crocodile Ancestor as a grave-keeping crocodile and said he would settle Sakyamuni's karmic debt.
• Crocodile Ancestor recognized Li Qingshan as the youth who had escaped aboard the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin eleven years earlier and identified his Xuanhuang Mother Qi Source.
• Crocodile Ancestor coveted Li Qingshan's Mother Qi and remarked that his return alive from the starry sky surprised him.

Li Qingshan confronted Crocodile Ancestor, who tried to seize him and the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag, but Li’s nine-colored flames injured him. Just as their battle was about to intensify, an ancient Buddha aboard a golden boat awakened and arrived, shocking Crocodile Ancestor.

• Crocodile Ancestor formed his crocodile scales into heirloom saint armor and attacked Li Qingshan, aiming to capture the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag.
• Li Qingshan engulfed Crocodile Ancestor’s armored hand in nine-colored flames, leaving it scorched and wounded despite Crocodile Ancestor’s efforts to extinguish them.
• Crocodile Ancestor declared that he would kill Li Qingshan and seize the Source Root of Mother Qi of All Things to advance toward becoming a Demon Emperor.
• A golden boat crossed the Demon Sea Eye as Buddhist chants and golden light gathered around it.
• An ancient monk aboard the boat opened his eyes, and Crocodile Ancestor recognized him as the Buddha who had supposedly passed away in meditation at Thunderclap Monastery.

An ancient Buddha awakened to defend the Mars Demon Sea Eye and warned Crocodile Ancestor that opening it could unleash a calamity. The old monk and the golden ship battled Crocodile Ancestor until the monk’s remaining life faded, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• The old monk explained that he had guarded the Demon Sea Eye for two thousand years and warned Crocodile Ancestor about the sealed evil in its depths.
• Crocodile Ancestor dismissed the warning and attacked the old monk aboard the ancient golden ship.
• The old monk invoked a demon-subduing mantra, awakening the five hundred arhats and the ship’s Buddhist formation.
• The golden ship’s Buddha light suppressed Crocodile Ancestor’s demonic power through a fierce battle that lasted until dawn.
• As the ship’s light faded, the old monk declared that Crocodile Ancestor’s evil karma would bring his end, then used up his remaining life and dissolved into the Dao.

After the old monk sacrificed himself and the ancient ship to seal the Demon Sea Eye, Li Qingshan faced Crocodile Ancestor and revealed a Great Saint-level Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo. Their first direct clash ended with Crocodile Ancestor forced to retreat after Li Qingshan’s seals injured his body.

• The old monk fused his golden body with the ancient ship and plunged into the Demon Sea Eye, while Crocodile Ancestor dismissed his sacrifice.
• Crocodile Ancestor mocked Li Qingshan and brought down a gigantic foot, but Li Qingshan evaded it with his Movement technique and protected himself with the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag.
• Li Qingshan unleashed the power of his Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo, shocking Crocodile Ancestor with his Great Saint-level body.
• Crocodile Ancestor changed his attack into a vast demon claw, and Li Qingshan met it with the Limitless Seal and the Yin-Yang Seal.
• The Yin-Yang vortex ground away Crocodile Ancestor’s scales and injured his arm, forcing him to break free and retreat hundreds of miles.
• Li Qingshan mocked Crocodile Ancestor for retreating after their first head-on clash.

Li Qingshan blocked the Crocodile Ancestor’s sword and used the Pangu Banner’s chaotic power to pierce his heirloom armor and wound him. The Crocodile Ancestor fled Yinghuo Ancient Star to fight in the open sea of stars, and Li Qingshan pursued him as both unleashed their full Great Saint-level power.

• The Crocodile Ancestor struck Li Qingshan with his demon saint battle sword, but the Apricot-Yellow Flag’s Xuanhuang barrier stopped the blow.
• Li Qingshan struck back with the Pangu Banner, shattering the Crocodile Ancestor’s Shura domain and piercing his armor and chest.
• The wounded Crocodile Ancestor challenged Li Qingshan to follow him beyond Yinghuo Ancient Star for a fight to the death.
• The Crocodile Ancestor tore through the ancient formation’s spatial barrier, and Li Qingshan followed him into the depths of space.
• The Crocodile Ancestor expanded into his true form and raised his battle sword as Li Qingshan summoned his Sacred Body, divine treasures, and the mysteries of Yuanshi’s Great Dao.

Li Qingshan battled Crocodile Ancestor across the solar system, alarming Earth’s governments and hidden cultivators as the fight’s energy reached them. Crocodile Ancestor revealed his colossal true form and struck at Li Qingshan, who met the attack with his Sacred Body Dao Embryo.

• Li Qingshan and Crocodile Ancestor fought across the solar system, and stray attacks scarred Mars and streaked through Earth’s atmosphere.
• Earth’s observatories, military warning systems, and ancient cultivator lineages detected the battle and grew alarmed by the beings and forces near Mars.
• Crocodile Ancestor became increasingly shocked by Li Qingshan’s strength, his recovery, and the protection of the Pangu Banner and Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag.
• Crocodile Ancestor fully manifested his enormous true form and swept a giant claw at Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan withdrew the Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag’s protection and met Crocodile Ancestor’s blow with his Sacred Body Dao Embryo, unleashing a vast shock wave.

Li Qingshan fought Crocodile Ancestor with his physical strength and a succession of powerful arts, eventually striking him with a forbidden punch that reached into the past. The blow tore through Crocodile Ancestor’s chest, leaving the battle at a critical moment.

• Crocodile Ancestor attacked Li Qingshan with his tail and claws, but Li Qingshan evaded the assault with the Movement secret art.
• Li Qingshan used Four Symbols, Suppress Heaven to briefly restrain Crocodile Ancestor, then battered his scales with a barrage of punches.
• Crocodile Ancestor unleashed the Foul Blood of All Spirits, but Li Qingshan swept it away with the Five-Colored Divine Light and struck Crocodile Ancestor’s forehead.
• Li Qingshan used the Movement secret art to step into the shadow of Crocodile Ancestor’s past and punched through his defenses with the power of time.
• Li Qingshan’s strike broke Crocodile Ancestor’s scales and opened a huge, bloody hole in his chest.