Recaps

Xu Long and the Red Queen failed to investigate the smoke-shrouded Fengdu City, so Xu Long prepared to enter it. Before they went in, he captured a Four-Winged Angel, searched his soul, and learned about the powers ruling Europe.

• The Red Queen reported that her robots and clones had lost contact inside Fengdu City, and Xu Long decided to enter the smoke with her.
• Xu Long caught a transparent Four-Winged Angel who had been approaching them and used Extreme Yang, Absolute Yin to cripple him.
• Xu Long tore off the angel’s wings, destroyed his body, and searched his soul for information.
• Xu Long learned that Holy Heaven was ruled by God Jehovah, the Purgatory Demon Tower by Satan, the Divine Hall of All by Athena, and the Extreme Realm of Ice and Snow by Sventovit.

After learning that ancient factions were returning to the weakened Main World, Xu Long entered Fengdu City and found it guarded by soul pressure and swarms of bone bugs. He pushed deeper and discovered the corpses of two likely explorers from the Extreme Realm of Ice and Snow.

• Xu Long pieced together how factions such as Holy Heaven had emerged from sealed territories after finding the Main World weak, and expected more immortals and gods to return.
• Xu Long entered Fengdu City, where bone beetles attacked him and the city's soul pressure incapacitated the Red Queen's puppet avatar.
• Xu Long continued through the city, allowing the bone bugs to attack him because they served as a barrier against weaker explorers.
• After traveling about twenty li, Xu Long uncovered a mangled body he suspected belonged to a Body Temperer from the Extreme Realm of Ice and Snow.
• Xu Long hurried onward and found a second corpse, this one belonging to a woman.

Xu Long discovered that berserkers from the Extreme Realm of Ice and Snow had entered Fengdu City, where White Bone Insects were hunting them. After learning the three survivors were merely scouts, he killed them and found no useful information in their souls.

• Xu Long searched a corpse from the Extreme Realm of Ice and Snow and learned its people had entered China and Fengdu City.
• Three wounded berserkers from the Extreme Realm of Ice and Snow fled a swarm of White Bone Insects and discussed the sealed realms and the history of powerful warriors.
• The berserkers escaped the insects, but Xu Long appeared beside them and killed all three with his sword.
• Xu Long searched the berserkers' souls and destroyed them, finding no useful information.

Xu Long crossed the Ghost Gate and traveled through the deserted Yellow Springs Road, where the scenery brought his memories back to him. At the Three Lives Stone, he glimpsed a powerful god who might have been his past life, then continued toward the Naihe Bridge despite seeing no future.

• Lin followed the Main God's guidance to Fengdu City, seeking a way to advance beyond her power of Extreme Yin, Absolute Yang.
• Xu Long passed through the Ghost Gate and found the Yellow Springs Road empty of ghosts and attendants.
• The Yellow Springs Road revealed Xu Long's memories, and he let go of the past before reaching the dry River of Forgetfulness.
• Xu Long examined the Three Lives Stone, which showed him a god surrounded by worshipping beasts and treasures.
• Xu Long saw that the Three Lives Stone showed only a past and no future, but refused to give up and strode toward the Naihe Bridge.

Xu Long discovered a Red Spider Lily in Fengdu City and realized that soul power could trigger more of them to bloom. He lured a wounded band of vampires and werewolves into revealing themselves, then killed nearly all of them with a single sword strike.

• Xu Long found a Red Spider Lily, learned its properties, and picked it.
• Xu Long searched for more flowers before encountering a wounded group of vampires and werewolves led by Aostelde Dracula, also called Osterld and Du Fu.
• Xu Long identified himself as king of the Yanhuang Divine Kingdom and told Osterld that a Red Spider Lily needed soul power as a catalyst.
• Osterld realized that Xu Long meant to use their souls to make the flower bloom and shouted for the group to run.
• Xu Long unleashed Heaven and Earth One Sword, cutting the dark creatures down to single digits.

Xu Long slaughtered the dark creatures at the River of Forgetfulness and waited for Lin, who arrived with the opposing power of Extreme Yin, Absolute Yang. Their first clash canceled out both powers, and they began a fierce battle over the ultimate power.

• Xu Long killed Osterld and the remaining dark creatures, then collected a second Red Spider Lily from the River of Forgetfulness.
• Xu Long spent two days killing powerful opponents, including Bronze Saints, while waiting for Lin to arrive.
• Lin came to confront Xu Long, believing her matching Late Golden Core Stage cultivation and Extreme power would let her challenge him.
• Xu Long and Lin attacked each other, and their opposing powers canceled out on contact.
• Lin grew more desperate to kill Xu Long and claim his power, while Xu Long fought steadily against her frenzied attacks.

Lin recalled the suffering that drove her to seek power, then unleashed the uncontrollable power of Extreme Yin, Absolute Yang in Fengdu City. Xu Long embraced her and promised to protect her, and her power began to fuse with his.

• Lin recounted how her family’s suffering and her execution led the Main God to offer her a second life and a path toward power.
• Lin unleashed Extreme Yin, Absolute Yang, and Xu Long revealed that he had drawn her into his plans from the moment she entered Fengdu City.
• Lin’s power engulfed the area, draining the energy of nearby cultivators and manifesting a massive formation.
• Xu Long stopped resisting Lin’s attacks, held her, and promised that no one would hurt her while he lived.
• Lin’s aura calmed, and her power began to fuse with Xu Long’s without clashing or disappearing.

Xu Long devoured Lin’s power and formed a nascent soul, but the resulting Power of Oblivion erased his body and soul before his own Creation power restored him. He left Fengdu City with new questions about the primordial era, while Wei Qing remained surrounded and taunted by hostile cultivators outside the city.

• Xu Long’s newly awakened gray energy began erasing his body, and his attempts to stop it failed as the Main God remained silent.
• As Xu Long’s soul faded, he resisted oblivion, and the blood-red eyes restored his soul and body through the power of Creation.
• Xu Long learned that Oblivion could return everything to nothingness, drew in its gray currents, and watched the blood-red eyes disappear.
• Xu Long left Fengdu City after realizing Lin had fallen into his trap and that devouring Lin’s power had advanced his cultivation.
• Outside Fengdu City, Wei Qing, wounded after killing a Nascent Soul Stage Fallen Angel, faced insults from several hostile cultivators who surrounded him.

Xu Long rescued Wei Qing from the gathered aliens, then flew to Western Europe and attacked the Purgatory Demon Tower with the power of annihilation. He destroyed its shield and began damaging the tower, leaving Satan and the demons trapped inside in danger.

• A Hanguo man insulted Wei Qing while hiding behind an angel, and Xu Long killed the assembled aliens with Heaven and Earth One Sword.
• Xu Long told the injured Wei Qing to recuperate, then headed for Western Europe and had Red Queen spread word about the Red Spider Lilies in Fengdu City.
• Xu Long arrived at the Purgatory Demon Tower and used his sword to erode its protective energy shield.
• The tower's monstrous aura killed nearby dark creatures when the shield fell, and Xu Long cut down the Fallen Angels and demons who attacked him.
• Xu Long struck the Purgatory Demon Tower and began eroding its structure, threatening the kin trapped inside and Satan's safety.

Xu Long slaughtered the dark creatures outside the Purgatory Demon Tower until their blood ritual let Dio escape, and the two began a deadly fight. Xu Long’s power of annihilation overwhelmed Dio, who opened a spatial rift to unleash spatial turbulence, but Xu Long remained confident he could withstand it.

• Xu Long attacked the Purgatory Demon Tower and killed any dark creatures that approached him.
• The dark creatures self-destructed in a blood ritual, weakening the tower’s seal and allowing Dio to force his way out.
• Dio charged Xu Long, and their opening attacks clashed, but Xu Long’s sword slash destroyed Dio’s attack and severed his right hand and arm.
• Dio opened a spatial rift and drew spatial turbulence into the Main World, intending to take Xu Long down with him.
• Xu Long dismissed Dio’s plan and recalled surviving even stronger spatial turbulence under the protection of the power of annihilation.

After defeating Dio and withdrawing from the Purgatory Demon Tower, Xu Long joined Wei Qing at the site of Huo Qubing’s tomb when its seal began to break. A terrifying Late Tribulation Transcendence Stage presence erupted from underground, leaving them unsure what had been sealed there.

• Dio tore open space and tried to drag Xu Long into the spatial turbulence, but Xu Long emerged unharmed and destroyed him.
• Xu Long chose not to continue attacking the battered Purgatory Demon Tower and expected news of the assault and the Red Spider Lily’s discovery to discourage other powers from causing trouble.
• Wei Qing told Xu Long that the seal on his nephew Huo Qubing was about to come undone, and Xu Long used Instant Transmission to reach him.
• Wei Qing led Xu Long to a small hill above Huo Qubing’s buried tomb, where the ground collapsed within a five-thousand-meter radius.
• A savage aura burst from underground, and Xu Long sensed a Late Tribulation Transcendence Stage monster nearing the Mahayana Stage.
• Xu Long and Wei Qing questioned whether the presence could be Huo Qubing and wondered if the imperial preceptor’s divination had gone wrong.

Xu Long and Wei Qing discovered a Late Tribulation Transcendence Stage Hou emerging from Huo Qubing’s tomb and tried to flee, but it sensed their spatial fluctuations and attacked. Xu Long escaped into spatial turbulence after wounding the beast with the Power of Oblivion, but the Hou struck him with lightning, leaving him close to death.

• Xu Long and Wei Qing watched a thousand-meter Hou emerge from the ground and recognized it as a powerful immemorial creature.
• Xu Long grabbed Wei Qing and tried to use Instant Transmission, but the Hou detected them and interrupted his attempts to flee.
• The Hou appeared in front of Xu Long, who opened a rift with the World-Breaking Blade and entered the spatial turbulence.
• Xu Long struck the Hou with Heaven and Earth One Sword, eroding a large hole in its body but failing to kill it.
• The enraged Hou attacked Xu Long with lightning, dispersing most of the Power of Oblivion protecting him.

Huo Qubing awakened and rescued Xu Long from the Lightning Hou, then reunited with Wei Qing and learned that thousands of years had passed. After hearing Huo Qubing’s account of Dongfang Shuo’s prophecy, Xu Long was identified as the prophesied God Above Gods who would lead the Great Wilderness back to the primordial era.

• Xu Long prepared to burn his life force against the Lightning Hou, but Huo Qubing appeared and calmed both him and the beast.
• Wei Qing recognized Huo Qubing, and the two tearfully reunited after awakening thousands of years later.
• Huo Qubing said the Great Han had fallen and that alien races were about to return, then revealed that the Lightning Hou was his former companion, Xiaolei.
• Huo Qubing returned to the Yanhuang Divine Kingdom with Wei Qing and Xu Long, where he recounted Dongfang Shuo’s prophecy of a turning point that could destroy the Ghost Demons.
• Huo Qubing told Xu Long that he believed him to be the prophesied God Above Gods, destined to lead the Great Wilderness back to the primordial era.

Huo Qubing explained the origins of humans and dragons to Xu Long, then left to guard China while Xu Long stayed behind. As the seals weakened, cultivators gathered at Fengdu City, where a mysterious bloody maw punished outsiders who attacked people.

• Huo Qubing told Xu Long that the Mount Tai God was a high god and described how the Phoenix Ancestor, Qilin Ancestor, and Kunpeng ranked among the gods.
• Huo Qubing revealed that humans and dragons shared Ancestor as their origin, and that he had been one of humanity's guardians during the primeval era.
• Xu Long wondered whether he might be an unrecorded God Above Gods, then told Huo Qubing he had no plans and could defend their position himself.
• Huo Qubing decided to return to China to protect the Great Han and its people, and Xu Long agreed.
• As the four factions' seals weakened, cultivators flocked to Fengdu City to seek Red Spider Lilies.
• When outsiders tried to attack people in China, a bloody maw appeared and swallowed them, forcing the other races to behave and retreat into Fengdu City.

The four great factions fought over the Red Spider Lilies in Fengdu City, and Xu Long learned of strange fluctuations beyond Naihe Bridge and decided to investigate deeper. At the River of Forgetfulness, the flowers drove the rival factions into a frenzy, turning their battle into a massacre.

• The four great factions entered Fengdu City seeking Red Spider Lilies, and Holy Heaven and the Purgatory Demon Tower immediately clashed.
• After a Holy Angel found a blooming Red Spider Lily, battles spread and the flowers drew more cultivators into Fengdu City.
• The Red Queen told Xu Long that people had detected strange fluctuations deep inside the city, and he decided to investigate beyond Naihe Bridge.
• At the River of Forgetfulness, angels, demons, Fallen Angels, Saints, and berserkers fought over the flowers as the Red Spider Lilies bloomed in waves.
• The flowers drove the combatants into a frenzy, and the battle became a bloody slaughter that produced still more Red Spider Lilies.

Alien cultivators at the River of Forgetfulness slaughtered one another under the influence of the Red Spider Lilies and a strange mist, while the river filled with silent red water. Xu Long arrived to find seven survivors and immediately killed a demon with a stream of gray air.

• The Red Spider Lilies and whispers in the mist drove the alien cultivators into a bloody frenzy, and their dead sank silently into the River of Forgetfulness.
• Several aliens self-destructed, leaving only seven Late Spirit Severing Stage cultivators alive.
• The survivors noticed the red water in the river and the mist's influence, but a Silver Saint was gravely hurt when he released his consciousness toward it.
• Xu Long arrived, saw the churning river, and decided to kill the aliens before searching their souls.
• A ram-horned demon dismissed Xu Long as a weak human, but Xu Long pierced him with gray air and reduced him to flying ash.

Xu Long stopped three Body Integration Stage foes from reaching Fengdu City and was left facing a Ten-Winged Angel alone. Though she feared his power and could not return to Holy Heaven, Xu Long launched the fight against her.

• Six surviving members of the other races sacrificed themselves to summon powerful allies through spatial passages.
• A Ten-Winged Angel arrived, while Xu Long used his sword to engulf the other three passages and erase the sacrifices sustaining them.
• Three Body Integration Stage cultivators attacked Xu Long as their passages collapsed, but he escaped with Instant Transmission and they died before arriving.
• Xu Long faced the Ten-Winged Angel alone; she hesitated after witnessing his power and realizing she could not return to Holy Heaven.
• Xu Long decided to end the fight quickly and slashed at the Ten-Winged Angel.

Xu Long defeated the Ten-Winged Angel and gathered the Red Spider Lilies before a mysterious woman appeared above the River of Forgetfulness. Huo Qubing recognized her as the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting, one of the sources of the Ghost Demons.

• Xu Long used the Power of Oblivion to shatter the space around the Ten-Winged Angel, killing her and collecting the Red Spider Lilies with his clones.
• A sorrowful woman appeared above the River of Forgetfulness and told Xu Long he could take the flowers.
• Huo Qubing arrived on the Lightning Hou, and he warned the woman that he recognized her from their past battle.
• The woman transformed into a terrifying ghost after Huo Qubing identified her as the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting.
• Huo Qubing revealed that the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting was one of the sources of the Ghost Demons.

Xu Long, Huo Qubing, and Lightning Hou confronted the Ghost Demons Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting and the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred in Fengdu City. Huo Qubing explained that the city’s Heavenly Dao had imprisoned the Ghost Demons, and the chapter ended with Xu Long laughing when the Holy Mother’s punch struck the seal.

• Xu Long learned from Huo Qubing that Ghost Demons were born from heaven and earth’s fury and could only be exterminated by the power of gods.
• Huo Qubing recognized the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting and taunted her, then the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred emerged from the scarlet river.
• Huo Qubing explained that Fengdu City’s Heavenly Dao had trapped the two Ghost Demons inside the River of Forgetfulness.
• Xu Long and Huo Qubing mocked the Ghost Demons for challenging them to enter while they themselves could not leave.
• The Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting punched toward Xu Long, but Fengdu City’s seal stopped her, and Xu Long burst out laughing.

Huo Qubing and the Lightning Hou fought the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting and the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred in the River of Forgetfulness while Xu Long cultivated with Red Spider Lilies. When the Holy Mother attacked Xu Long, his sword revealed that he wielded the Power of Oblivion, which erased her arm and left her terrified.

• Huo Qubing told Xu Long to wait outside the battle and entered the River of Forgetfulness with the Lightning Hou to weaken the two trapped Ghost Demons.
• The Lightning Hou fought the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting, and Huo Qubing fought the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred.
• Xu Long refined Red Spider Lilies, advanced to the Late Nascent Soul Stage, and gathered more flowers from the riverbank to raise his cultivation further.
• The battle damaged the barrier, and the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting reached for Xu Long to kill him.
• Xu Long struck the Holy Mother with Heaven and Earth One Sword, and the Power of Oblivion erased her arm; she recognized the forbidden power before the Lightning Hou knocked her away.

Xu Long overwhelmed the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting with the Power of Oblivion, but she self-destructed before he could search her soul. She then invaded his sea of consciousness, where Huo Qubing watched without concern.

• Xu Long tore open the barrier over the River of Forgetfulness with sword light and struck the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting.
• Xu Long surrounded the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting with sword light, destroying her body and leaving only her head.
• The Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting tried to self-destruct, and Xu Long escaped into the void before the blast collapsed the surrounding space.
• The Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting survived as a shadow and charged into Xu Long's sea of consciousness.
• Huo Qubing watched the invasion and showed no concern, recalling secrets known to humanity's ancient guardians.

The Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting invaded Xu Long’s consciousness, but glimpsing his past-life eyes erased her completely. Huo Qubing and the Lightning Hou weakened the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred, and Xu Long destroyed him, bringing one of the Ghost Demons’ two kings to an end.

• The Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting entered Xu Long’s sea of consciousness and tried to uncover his previous life.
• The Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting saw Xu Long’s past-life eyes, and her consciousness vanished completely.
• The Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred sensed the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting’s disappearance as Huo Qubing and the Lightning Hou attacked him.
• Huo Qubing explained that the Ghost Demons were tools created by the Heavenly Dao and destined to be destroyed, driving the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred into despair.
• Huo Qubing and the Lightning Hou weakened the Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred, then withdrew as Xu Long struck him with gray sword light and destroyed him.

After Xu Long and Huo Qubing killed the Ghost Demons, Xu Long received a message from Dongfang Shuo warning that the Great Wilderness would soon flow back into the ancient era and face the return of powerful old gods. Dongfang Shuo also hinted at the Main God before his remnant soul vanished.

• Huo Qubing celebrated the deaths of Heavenly Lord of Obsession and Hatred and Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting, then gave Xu Long a jade talisman from the imperial preceptor.
• Xu Long activated the talisman and met Dongfang Shuo, who warned that the Great Wilderness would soon reach the Mahayana Stage and flow backward into the ancient era.
• Dongfang Shuo explained that Huo Qubing and other experts would awaken to protect humanity, but Xu Long would have to face threats beyond Huo Qubing's strength.
• Dongfang Shuo urged Xu Long to kill the old gods before they entered the Great Wilderness and recited a cryptic divination about impulse.
• Dongfang Shuo revealed that his divination had produced the words Main God, and Xu Long reacted with grave recognition.

Xu Long and Huo Qubing explored their past lives before crossing Naihe Bridge deeper into Fengdu City, where they found Xiang Yu imprisoned by the River of Forgetfulness. Xu Long urged the Hegemon-King to survive and fight again for humanity, but Xiang Yu had not yet answered.

• Huo Qubing discovered that his past life had been a peerless genius who died while reveling, and Lightning Hou revealed that he had been a breeding boar.
• Xu Long, Huo Qubing, and Lightning Hou crossed Naihe Bridge and encountered a sorrowful, armored figure at its far end.
• Xu Long recognized the figure as Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, who had pursued the Holy Mother of Sorrowful Parting into Fengdu City and been trapped.
• Xiang Yu dismissed himself as an unworthy leader of defeated men, and Xu Long argued that his name and deeds would endure beyond victory or defeat.
• Xu Long told Xiang Yu that humanity still faced danger and urged him to preserve his life and fight for the human race again.

Xu Long, Huo Qubing, Xiang Yu, and Lightning Hou reached the Homeward-Gazing Terrace in Fengdu City, where Xiang Yu relived a past life and had his karma washed away. Xiang Yu emerged transformed, and Huo Qubing hesitated when Xu Long invited him to step onto the terrace next.

• Xu Long invited Xiang Yu to explore Fengdu City and see the China of the present, and Huo Qubing urged Xiang Yu to help protect their people and descendants.
• Xiang Yu agreed to travel with Xu Long and Huo Qubing, and the group reached the Homeward-Gazing Terrace at the end of Naihe Bridge.
• Xiang Yu stepped onto the terrace, which revealed a past life in which he hunted down the bandits who had slaughtered his village and killed his pregnant wife.
• The terrace's vision rewound and vanished, and Xiang Yu's aura changed as the terrace washed away his karma and eased his inner turmoil.
• Xiang Yu declared that his former self was dead and that he was a new Xiang Ji, while Huo Qubing hesitated to step onto the terrace.