Recaps

Li Qingshan’s dormant consciousness was buried within the Second Demonic Embryo, now ruled by a chaotic Primordial Great Demon that fought Shen Ji. The demon resisted her strongest techniques and unleashed a Demonized Four Symbols Seal that crushed toward her.

• Li Qingshan’s consciousness fell dormant as the Second Demonic Embryo became a chaos monster governed by destructive instincts.
• Shen Ji attacked the Primordial Great Demon, but its punch matched her blow and left its body unscathed.
• The Primordial Great Demon struck with the Demonized Heaven-Overturning Seal, forcing Shen Ji to evade with Illusory Demon Body.
• Shen Ji used Yin-Yang Reversal to disrupt the demon’s laws, but its Darkness of Void absorbed the interference.
• The Primordial Great Demon summoned chaotic earth, water, wind, and fire into a Demonized Four Symbols Seal and sent it crushing toward Shen Ji.

Shen Ji used the Seven Absolutes Law against the Primordial Great Demon, but his chaos powers resisted her techniques and drove them into a perilous close-quarters fight. She wounded him for the first time, and he charged at her with Darkness of Void tentacles.

• Shen Ji used Space Severing to tear apart the Four Symbols Chaos Jade Box, but its chaotic power eroded her spatial rifts and forced a stalemate.
• Shen Ji tried Causality Disruption and Severance, but the Primordial Great Demon's instinctive attack barely slowed.
• The Primordial Great Demon unleashed a devouring force that tugged at Shen Ji's life and soul, giving her an opening to strike at his eyes and sea of consciousness.
• Shen Ji broke through the Darkness of Void barrier with the Chaotic Battle Seal and Seven Absolutes Destruction Divine Light, wounding the Primordial Great Demon's arm.
• The enraged Primordial Great Demon charged Shen Ji at close range and sent Darkness of Void tentacles to wrap around and devour her.

After Shen Ji wounded the Primordial Great Demon, he counterattacked with overwhelming force and drove her to burn her divine soul to survive. The Demonized Heaven-Overturning Four Symbols Seal then took its true form, leaving Shen Ji facing the destruction of the world around her.

• The Primordial Great Demon charged Shen Ji, shattered her protective divine light, and wounded her with the Darkness of Void.
• The demon pursued Shen Ji with regenerating dark tentacles and a Heaven-Overturning Seal phantom, forcing her to unleash Space Severing.
• Shen Ji burned her essence and divine power to strike the demon’s palm, breaking apart the seal phantom but exhausting herself.
• The Primordial Great Demon gathered the Darkness of Void and formed the true Demonized Heaven-Overturning Four Symbols Seal.
• The seal devoured light and destabilized space and time across the region, while Shen Ji faced it in despair and cried out that she could not fall there.

The Primordial Great Demon annihilated Shen Ji’s divine body and ground down her undying divine soul until she was completely destroyed. After surveying the devastation, he sensed more food to the east and left the ravaged demonic land behind.

• Shen Ji raised a seven-colored shield, but the Primordial Great Demon’s Heaven-Overturning Seal crushed it and consumed her divine body.
• Shen Ji’s undying divine soul resisted the seal, but the Primordial Great Demon intensified its power and dragged her soul into the vortex of return to the void.
• The Four Symbols Seal ground down Shen Ji’s divine soul until her final defiant thought vanished and her existence was erased.
• The Primordial Great Demon withdrew his seal and inspected his healing wounds as the destruction around him subsided.
• The Primordial Great Demon sensed more food to the east and strode away, leaving the shattered demonic land behind.

A month after the battle that turned the battlefield into the Great Demon Mountain Range, God Kings investigated the deadly ruins and fled when they found no spoils worth the risk. Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing sensed a faint trace of Li Qingshan’s Qi in the central battlefield, but its familiar signature was now entwined with a cold, devouring demonic nature.

• The battle’s lingering Chaos Demonic Qi, shattered laws, and battle intent made the battlefield a forbidden zone that killed most scouts who entered its core.
• After a month, God Kings gathered at the Great Demon Mountain Range, but the deadly conditions drove them to retreat without searching further.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing arrived after sensing the battle’s familiar fluctuations and assessed the destruction left behind.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing stayed to search for Li Qingshan and sensed his faint Qi near a distorted space-time rift.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing recognized Li Qingshan’s signature beneath an unfamiliar, cold demonic nature and reacted with shock and worry.

Yuan Qingqing and Gu Xin recognized that Li Qingshan had become a nearly uncontrollable Primordial Great Demon and decided to seek Chen Zhan’s help. Meanwhile, the demon entered the Domain of Disorder and erased a vast region before continuing east.

• Yuan Qingqing and Gu Xin sensed that Li Qingshan’s demonic nature had overwhelmed his original consciousness and realized he was the Primordial Great Demon behind the devastation.
• Yuan Qingqing proposed finding Chen Zhan, and she and Gu Xin set off east to seek his help for Li Qingshan and the Heavenly Realm.
• The Primordial Great Demon appeared above a battlefield in the Domain of Disorder and crushed tens of thousands of combatants with one step.
• The demon devoured the battlefield, nearby demon castles, and the surrounding land, then continued east toward denser sources of energy.

The Primordial Great Demon spread through the Eastern Heaven Realm, devouring battlefields, secret realms, and entire cities as reports of its destruction terrified the region. In the Fallen Star Sea, it defeated the Star Fiend Ancient Demon and absorbed its core energy.

• Survivors’ warnings about the Primordial Great Demon spread, while Eastern Heaven Realm powers initially dismissed them.
• An ancient God Emperor found the threads of fate thrown into chaos, and a God King fled after sensing the demon’s devouring presence in a distant star region.
• The Primordial Great Demon erased armies, consumed the treasures and laws of an ancient secret realm, and destroyed a populous Divine City.
• The Primordial Great Demon entered the Fallen Star Sea, awakening the Star Fiend Ancient Demon, which attacked with a fist of shattered stars.
• The Primordial Great Demon endured the Star Fiend Ancient Demon’s assault and, after three days, seized and devoured its core, leaving its body scattered as lifeless stellar fragments.

Over ten years, the Primordial Great Demon’s advance through the Eastern Heaven Realm intensified the spreading Calamity Qi and weakened the realm’s factions, while their leaders chose how to respond. As he continued toward the heartland in search of richer energy, the Heaven-Shocking Sword Master prepared to test his sword against him.

• Calamity Qi worsened as factions across the Eastern Heaven Realm fought over resources, including the Heaven-Chaos Sect and Eastern Sea independent cultivators clashing over an asteroid belt rich in Void Crystals.
• Ancestor Destruction ordered his followers to avoid confronting the Primordial Great Demon directly while secretly seeking a chance to capture and study his demonic Qi.
• The Heaven-Chaos Demon King withdrew his outer forces and sent stealthy subordinates to investigate the demon’s origins and power.
• Wuyou Palace sealed itself off, while ancient independent cultivators of the Eastern Sea concealed themselves or closed their Grotto-Heavens.
• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master chose to face the demon, hoping to temper his sword and comprehend the final chapter of the Heaven-Shocking Sword Canon.
• The Primordial Great Demon continued toward the Eastern Heaven Realm’s heartland, indifferent to the fear and destruction he caused as he sought denser energy.

After more than a dozen years of destruction by the Primordial Great Demon, survivors and factions across the Heavenly Realm united to form a vast campaign against him. As the Demon-Slaying Alliance gathered unprecedented forces, the demon remained unaware of the hunt and turned toward the boundary with the Human World.

• The Primordial Great Demon continued destroying regions and killing beings across the Heavenly Realm, while survivors’ grief and hatred grew.
• Victims and their allies founded the Demon-Slaying Alliance and began rallying factions across the Eastern Heaven Realm.
• The Primordial Great Demon destroyed a primordial ruin guarded by three God Emperors, killing two and gravely wounding the third.
• The Heaven-Shocking Lineage declared it would lead the effort to exterminate the demon, prompting factions across both Heaven Realms to organize a Demon-Extermination Assembly.
• Destruction Dao, the Heaven-Chaos Sect, Wuyou Palace, the Eastern Sea’s ancient dragons, and Western Heaven Realm envoys agreed to join or aid the campaign.
• The gathered forces prepared a vast hunt while the Primordial Great Demon, unaware of the danger, approached the boundary between the Eastern Heaven Realm and the Human World.

The allied forces of the Three Realms launched a massive assault on the Primordial Great Demon, but its defenses and counterattacks proved devastating. The battle broke through into the Human World and spread onward into the Western Heaven Realm, leaving destruction in its wake.

• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, the Old Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, and other experts attacked the Primordial Great Demon together, but their strongest techniques failed to break through its defenses.
• The Primordial Great Demon killed two God Kings and devoured a Demon King while fighting through the allied forces.
• The battle damaged the boundary between the Heavenly Realm and the Human World, opening a golden rift that let their energies pour into the Human World.
• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, the Old Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, and Ancestor Destruction pursued the Primordial Great Demon through the opening.
• The Primordial Great Demon rampaged between the Human World and both Heaven Realms, reducing regions to wasteland as the allied forces tried to contain it.

After seven years of devastating war, the surviving experts used the Nine Nether Demon-Suppressing Stone Stele replica and the Nine Nether Demon-Locking Great Formation to seal the Primordial Great Demon inside the Seventeenth Layer of Hell. The seal only bought time, while a more ancient fury followed the causal trace of Shen Ji’s fall toward the Human World.

• The western dragon expert, the first pope, and the Demon Lord of Kunlun joined the battle, but the Primordial Great Demon overwhelmed the allied forces and caused catastrophic losses.
• After the Primordial Great Demon resisted every attempt to destroy it, the surviving experts seized its moment of hesitation and activated the replica of the Nine Nether Demon-Suppressing Stone Stele.
• The Old Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, Ancestor Destruction, the Demon Lord of Kunlun, and other survivors sacrificed their power and resources to form the Nine Nether Demon-Locking Great Formation.
• The formation and the experts drove the Primordial Great Demon into the Seventeenth Layer of Hell and sealed its entrance, though it immediately began battering the seals from within.
• A more ancient fury followed the causal connection released by Shen Ji’s fall and surged toward the Human World and the Seventeenth Layer of Hell.

Mad Demon traced Shen Ji’s death to the Primordial Great Demon and stormed into the Seventeenth Layer of Hell, overpowering the allied forces’ attempts to stop him. He met the demon head-on and drove his fists into its chest, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Mad Demon arrived at Hell’s entrance, identified the Primordial Great Demon as tied to Shen Ji’s death, and demanded the truth.
• Mad Demon slashed through the allied forces’ seals, then broke the Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, Ancestor Destruction, the Old Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, and the Demon Lord of Kunlun’s combined attack with one punch.
• Mad Demon forced his way through the seal and entered the Seventeenth Layer of Hell, where the Primordial Great Demon sensed him and unleashed the Darkness of Void.
• Mad Demon clashed with the Darkness of Void and closed in on the Primordial Great Demon, striking its chest twice and opening a deep fissure.
• The Primordial Great Demon struck Mad Demon’s shoulder, but Mad Demon used the impact to drive a third fist into the fissure and blast through the demon’s chest.

The Mad Demon unleashed “Destruction Returns to Nothingness” and shattered the Primordial Great Demon's body across Hell's Seventeenth Layer. The demon's source and undying battle soul survived, and the Mad Demon turned his attention to the scattered remains.

• The Primordial Great Demon threw the Dao Bell and Saint's alchemy furnace at the Mad Demon, who destroyed both treasures with swift strikes.
• The Mad Demon gathered his power and struck the Primordial Great Demon's exposed chest with “Destruction Returns to Nothingness.”
• The destruction ripple broke down the demon's body and scattered its head, limbs, and torso across the Seventeenth Layer of Hell.
• The demon's concentrated source and battle soul remained intact, surprising the Heaven-Shocking Sword Master, Tantai Xuan, and the others watching from Hell's entrance.
• The Mad Demon recognized the demon's undying nature, dismissed its continued struggle, and turned toward the scattered remains.

The chaotic battle soul began reassembling Li Qingshan’s shattered demonic body, while a faint spark of his true self briefly flickered inside it. The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master proposed separating and sealing the body’s parts, then used his sword to sever their bonds to the battle soul, halting the regeneration.

• The battle soul drew in the scattered remains of Li Qingshan’s demonic body and began regenerating it.
• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master sensed that Li Qingshan’s true self still faintly endured within the demonic nature, but remained trapped and unable to break free.
• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master warned that they had to stop the body’s reassembly and proposed severing and sealing its parts separately.
• Mad Demon and the other surviving supreme beings agreed to follow the plan.
• The Heaven-Shocking Sword Master transformed his body and soul into a divine sword and cut the bonds between the demonic body’s remnants and the battle soul, freezing their movement.

Fairy Wuyou and the surviving experts sealed the Primordial Great Demon's separated body parts in different locations and realms, while Mad Demon imprisoned its chaos battle soul in the Domain of Absolute Return to the Ruins. With the demon's calamity finally ended, Mad Demon vanished, grieving Shen Ji's fall.

• Fairy Wuyou called on the surviving experts to help seal the Primordial Great Demon's six separated body parts.
• Ancestor Destruction, the Old Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, the Demon Lord of Kunlun, and the surviving God Emperors contributed their powers to the sealing.
• The experts sealed the demon's head in the Avici Demon Abyss, its arms beneath the Western Heaven Realm, its legs beneath the Ancient Ravine of Fallen Gods, and its torso in a spatial rift.
• Mad Demon extracted the chaos battle soul, bound it in a dark crystal, and cast it into the Domain of Absolute Return to the Ruins.
• Mad Demon vanished after reflecting on his revenge and Shen Ji's fall, and the Primordial Great Demon's calamity came to an end.

Li Qingshan’s true-self spiritual light escaped the sealed Seventeenth Layer of Hell and found its way to Chen Zhan, who took it away. At Hell’s entrance, Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing recognized Chen Zhan’s lingering Dao resonance and concluded that Li Qingshan had survived.

• After the Primordial Great Demon's body was dismembered and its Chaos Battle Soul was sealed, Li Qingshan’s spiritual light broke free from the weakened demonic nature.
• Li Qingshan’s spiritual light slipped out of the Seventeenth Layer of Hell and vanished into the Human World.
• Chen Zhan sensed the escaping spiritual light, caught it in his palm, and quietly departed with it.
• Gu Xin and Yuan Qingqing found Chen Zhan’s Dao resonance at Hell’s entrance and reasoned that he had taken Li Qingshan to safety.

Chen Zhan brought Li Qingshan’s damaged innate spiritual light to a primordial star sea and placed it inside the Small Bronze Coffin. The coffin plunged into the black ocean and raced toward its deepest, most ancient region as Chen Zhan vanished.

• Chen Zhan crossed the starry sky and reached a vast black sea filled with drifting star remnants.
• Chen Zhan determined that the sea’s primordial chaos could help Li Qingshan’s damaged spiritual light recover.
• Chen Zhan placed Li Qingshan’s spiritual light inside the Small Bronze Coffin, where it became stable and peaceful.
• Chen Zhan cast the Small Bronze Coffin into the star sea, and an undercurrent carried it toward the depths.
• The Small Bronze Coffin repeatedly tore open void passages and sped toward the star sea’s deepest region.
• Chen Zhan vanished from the sea’s shore.

The Small Bronze Coffin carried Li Qingshan’s dormant spiritual light to a Divine Spring and golden lotus, where its vitality revived his memories and strength. There, he faced the destructive power that had ended his previous Nirvana and successfully formed a new indestructible divine embryo.

• The Small Bronze Coffin drifted through the starry sea until a vast Divine Spring appeared and drew it toward a golden lotus.
• The coffin settled on the lotus platform, its lid opened, and the spring’s sacred essence awakened Li Qingshan’s spiritual light and restored his memories.
• Li Qingshan’s past arts and Daos resurfaced as the golden lotus and Divine Spring nourished his true spirit.
• Li Qingshan faced the destructive power left by his failed Nirvana and planted a new demonic embryo within his spiritual light.
• Li Qingshan reversed yin and yang, detonated the demonic embryo, and achieved Nirvana as an indestructible divine embryo.

Li Qingshan’s innate spiritual light awakened within the golden lotus, and the lotus platform refined Divine Spring essence into the Qi of heaven and earth to fuel his second nirvana. He rebuilt his indestructible divine embryo, restored his cultivation, and the Western Emperor Scripture began resonating as the changes continued.

• The golden lotus transformed into a chaos furnace and refined Divine Spring essence into Qi of heaven and earth for Li Qingshan’s spiritual light.
• Li Qingshan’s suppressed foundation and second demonic embryo burned in a controlled nirvana, purifying the sealed first-revolution essence and advancement potential.
• The refined essence and heaven-and-earth Qi reconstructed Li Qingshan’s body into a second-revolution indestructible divine embryo.
• Li Qingshan’s cultivation surged as his Bitter Sea returned, his Divine Bridge connected to the Wheel of Life, and his five Dao Palace temples opened.
• The Western Emperor Scripture resonated from Li Qingshan’s Immortal Platform and began acting on his life and path through space and time.

Li Qingshan completed the formation of his Divine Embryo and advanced to Immortal Platform Second Level Ninth Heaven. After awakening in his newly sublimated body, he recalled fragments of a catastrophe involving Shen Ji but could not recover what had happened during the years his memories were severed.

• Li Qingshan manifested his Present Self, Departed Self, and Dao Self as his Divine Embryo’s secret realms opened and transformed.
• His Immortal Platform advanced to the ninth lesser step of the Second Heaven, reaching the peak of the God Emperor realm.
• Li Qingshan’s Divine Embryo finished refining, and he awakened in a body sublimated beyond the Innate Immortal Fetus.
• Li Qingshan examined his transformed cultivation and realized his memories after Shen Ji interrupted his earlier breakthrough remained fragmented.
• He recalled glimpses of a great upheaval, his dismemberment and suppression, and the Primordial Great Demon’s rampage, but could not determine what had occurred.

Li Qingshan explored the golden lotus and Divine Spring where he had been reborn, then discovered an immense mass of Xuanhuang Mother Qi at the lotus’s roots. Recognizing it as a supreme treasure in the Divine Tomb World, he began gathering it.

• Li Qingshan examined the golden lotus and collected Divine Spring water, storing it in his Bitter Sea and feeling it improve his divine power.
• He noticed Xuanhuang Mother Qi intertwined with the lotus’s roots and realized it was an extraordinarily valuable source material.
• Li Qingshan wondered whether he had returned to the Shrouding the Heavens universe, but sensed that he was still in the Divine Tomb World.
• He recalled Ye Fan’s Mother Qi of All Things Source and judged the mass before him sufficient to refine an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.
• Li Qingshan used his divine power to collect the heavy Mother Qi, while the golden lotus’s power eased his effort.

After absorbing the Xuanhuang Mother Qi into his Bitter Sea, Li Qingshan discovered that he could not escape the Divine Spring and golden lotus. He climbed into the Small Bronze Coffin, hoping it would carry him somewhere beyond the sealed space.

• Li Qingshan drew the Xuanhuang Mother Qi into his Bitter Sea and stabilized it as a weighty foundation.
• Li Qingshan tried to fly, break through the surrounding space, and search the Divine Spring, but found no way out.
• Li Qingshan suspected the Small Bronze Coffin that had brought him there might also let him escape.
• Li Qingshan climbed into the Small Bronze Coffin, and its lid closed, cutting him off from the outside world.

Li Qingshan discovered a sacred drop of blood inside the Small Bronze Coffin, whose presence resonated with his body and soul as though it were part of his own origin. Trusting that kinship, he let the blood merge with him, where it dissolved into a gentle torrent.

• A speck of light awakened among the coffin’s ancient totems and formed into a radiant drop of scarlet blood.
• Li Qingshan sensed the blood’s supreme vitality and struggled to identify its familiar presence.
• The drop’s appearance made Li Qingshan’s Divine Body, Five Great Secret Realms, and divine sense resonate with it.
• Li Qingshan suspected the blood was an essential part of his being, lost and sealed away in the coffin.
• The blood sensed their shared origin and flew into Li Qingshan’s ancestral aperture as he lowered his defenses.
• The blood merged with Li Qingshan and dissolved into a warm, gentle torrent.

Li Qingshan reflected on his escape from the Demonic Embryo and the treasures and friends he had lost, while the mysterious blood that entered him brought no obvious change. The Small Bronze Coffin opened a passage, and he set off into the unknown.

• Li Qingshan found that the crimson drop of blood had caused no visible transformation, though he felt slightly more relaxed.
• He recalled his descent into demonic nature, his interrupted Nirvana, and waking in the golden lotus and Divine Spring, wondering whether Chen Zhan had saved him.
• He considered the fortune he had gained, including an Indestructible Divine Embryo and Xuanhuang Mother Qi, and worried about his missing Dao Bell and other treasures.
• Li Qingshan wondered how much time had passed, what had happened across the three realms, and where the Small Bronze Coffin was taking him.
• The Small Bronze Coffin opened a mysterious passage, and Li Qingshan entered it before the passage closed behind them.

Li Qingshan arrived in a desolate star region after the Small Bronze Coffin lost power and crashed onto a turtle-shaped peak. The coffin devoured the region’s energy before departing, leaving Li Qingshan alone amid the ruined landscape.

• Li Qingshan traveled through the spacetime passage inside the Small Bronze Coffin as it carried him across the sea of stars.
• The Small Bronze Coffin lost power, fell from the passage, and landed upright on a turtle-shaped mountain peak.
• The coffin’s totems glowed black and unleashed a vast devouring vortex that drained the land, a fleeing group of Immortal Gods, and the demonic essence within the mountain.
• After consuming the region’s available energy, the coffin opened and delivered Li Qingshan onto the ashen ground.
• The Small Bronze Coffin turned into an azure streak and vanished, while Li Qingshan surveyed the desolate ruins and remarked on its tyrannical devouring force.