Recaps

Li Qingshan rescued Yu Xin from the Supreme Forgetfulness Record, traced the Primordial Great Demon’s scattered remains, and returned to the Eastern Wasteland transformed by the Small Bronze Coffin’s blood. He protected the Azure Emperor Lineage from the Ji Family and departed with Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and the Black Emperor as news of his power spread.

• Li Qingshan found Yu Xin fighting rogue cultivators, recognized the Supreme Forgetfulness Record’s danger, and took her as his disciple while developing a new art that let her rebuild her foundation and advance safely.
• As the Heavenly Realm descended into destruction, Li Qingshan protected Yu Xin in the valley, investigated the Primordial Great Demon’s history, and learned that its torso had been banished into an unknown rift.
• Li Qingshan broke into the sealed void, recovered the Primordial Great Demon’s torso and several lost treasures, realized the demon was his first Other Self, and returned through the Stone Gate.
• Back in the Eastern Wasteland, the Small Bronze Coffin’s awakened blood transformed Li Qingshan and produced manifestations that led him to suspect he had formed an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo.
• Ye Fan and the Black Emperor helped Yan Ruyu prepare to place the Demon Emperor’s Sacred Heart in Ye Fan, then followed the demons to Burning Heaven Valley as Ji Haoyue attacked them.
• Li Qingshan’s manifestations interrupted the battle, and he purified the demon soul possessing Pang Bo before placing the Azure Emperor Lineage under Jade Pool’s protection and forcing the Ji Family to surrender its Void Mirror replica.
• Li Qingshan urged Pang Bo to recover and Ye Fan to strengthen his Sea of Bitterness, then transported them, Yan Ruyu, Qin Yao, and the Black Emperor away as word of his power spread.

Li Qingshan survived a year-long Law-Creation Tribulation and answered the Beginningless Bell’s call as rival human and Primordial factions fought their way into Purple Mountain. The factions found Great Emperor Wushi’s scripture and the Bell, but neither treasure yielded to them, leaving the inheritance untouched as Li Qingshan approached.

• The Holy Lands gathered after the Beginningless Bell rang, while Li Qingshan’s Dao resonance was revealed as the cause of its response.
• Li Qingshan defeated the Peacock King and Azure Flood Dragon King, entrusted them with protecting Yan Ruyu’s people, then left to undergo his tribulation in the starry sky.
• Li Qingshan endured the Law-Creation Great Tribulation for over a year, defeated the final imperial phantom, and answered the Bell’s call by heading alone to Purple Mountain.
• Human factions and Primordial Royal Clans assembled at Purple Mountain, while Ye Fan, Duan De, and the Black Emperor raided mines and followed a hidden passage into the mountain.
• The human forces breached Purple Mountain’s Emperor Patterns and fought the Primordial Races, until the Hengyu Furnace awakened and annihilated a Primordial Ancestral King.
• Ye Fan, Duan De, and the Black Emperor watched the battle from hidden passages and continued deeper into Purple Mountain, collecting treasures along the way.
• The surviving factions reached the hall where the Wushi Scripture rested beneath the Beginningless Bell, then broke into battle when the Silver-Winged Ancient King lunged for the Bell.
• The Bell repelled every attack, and an ancient clan elder explained that only an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo could open the scripture, leaving the battered factions to withdraw without either treasure.

After claiming Great Emperor Wushi’s inheritance, Li Qingshan settled his affairs and went to the Northern Region Outer Sea to Sever the Dao. He survived a devastating tribulation and formed his own Dao as Emperor Weapons faced off to protect him.

• Li Qingshan claimed the Wushi Scripture and Beginningless Bell, transformed his Divine Embryo into a Demonic Embryo, and was named Purple Mountain’s new master by Gu Tianshu.
• Li Qingshan returned to Jade Pool, took the Divine Phoenix Immortal Medicine, and arranged for Ye Fan, the Black Emperor, and Duan De to leave Purple Mountain with him.
• Li Qingshan agreed to shelter Yan Ruyu’s faction at Jade Pool, while Ye Fan reunited with his Earth companions and heard Li Qingshan promise to seek a way home for them.
• Li Qingshan declared that he would Sever the Dao in the Northern Region Outer Sea, explaining to Lin Qingyao that he needed to establish a path of his own and draw his enemies away from innocents.
• Li Qingshan crushed Scarface Liu’s crew, killed five assassins from Human World and Hell, and continued toward the tribulation site as the gathered forces watched.
• Ye Fan rescued the wounded Ji Ziyue from Ji Biyue’s death warriors and fled with her into the Demon-Swallowing Strait as Li Qingshan’s tribulation began.
• Li Qingshan endured waves of destructive lightning, Emperor Weapon imprints, Order Divine Chains, and an innate five-elements formation while the Western Emperor Pagoda shielded him from an unknown Extreme Dao Weapon.
• Li Qingshan declared three severances, defeated ancient emperor imprints, created all six seals, and reunited his three selves to complete his Dao, then absorbed the remaining lightning and declared that his Dao was Yuanshi.

Li Qingshan survived his tribulation, forged new weapons, and led a broad alliance against Hell and Human World while pursuing their hidden branches. As he advanced his cultivation and renewed ties with Yan Ruyu and Lin Qingyao, Ye Fan won a famous stone-gambling contest and escaped with Great Emperor Wushi’s palace.

• Li Qingshan forged the Pangu Banner and Apricot-Yellow Flag in the Primordial Heavenly Court, defeated the Immortal Medicine imprints, and survived the Desolate Heaven Emperor’s imprint as his body transformed inside a cocoon.
• Thirty-two Great Powers attacked Li Qingshan’s cocoon, but his star formation killed them, and he emerged at King Seventh Heaven before killing King Xuansha and mortally wounding King Minggu.
• Li Qingshan and the Queen Mother of the West organized more than a hundred factions into an alliance against Hell and Human World, which began coordinated raids and purges across the Five Regions.
• Li Qingshan destroyed Nether Spring Prison and multiple other branches of Hell, while Ye Fan defeated Nangong Qi in a public stone-gambling contest and escaped an assassin’s attack.
• Li Qingshan rescued Wang Teng from Human World assassins, accepted the Qian Secret from him, and helped the alliance use Jade Pool intelligence to strike Hell’s remaining forces.
• Li Qingshan visited Yan Ruyu, acknowledged her feelings, reassured Lin Qingyao of his care, and completed the nine transformations of the Other Shore before surviving another tribulation.
• Li Qingshan learned that Ye Fan and the Jade Pool disciples were heading to Licheng to seek clues to the Nine Secrets, and recognized that the site held relics connected to Great Emperor Wushi.
• Ye Fan, Duan De, and the Black Emperor found Wushi’s Palace beneath Licheng and escaped with it inside Ye Fan’s cauldron, making Ye Fan notorious among the great powers.