Recaps

Mingye received Lu Yi at the palace, while Chen Mu continued developing a spacecraft to cross a wormhole for a cross-realm teleportation array. After an experiment destroyed part of the craft, Chen Mu joined Li Wei and Shi Xing at the Stargazing Platform and admitted his latest approach had failed.

• Mingye escorted Lu Yi to his room and promised to introduce him to the Might-Distant General when he arrived the next day.
• Chen Mu worked at the Rune Research Institute on a spacecraft designed to pass through a wormhole near the Netherworld.
• A spacecraft component exploded during testing, destroying half the craft and covering Chen Mu in soot.
• Chen Mu went to the Stargazing Platform, where Li Wei and Shi Xing asked about his new wormhole-traversal idea.
• Chen Mu said his latest method had failed.

Chen Mu explained to Li Wei why he supported Iron Soul City's people and gave her his social development plan, then learned that the Extreme Evil Imperial Court's ace legions had disappeared. At the Nether Emperor Temple, Mingye visited the Nether River, where Lu Yi warned her of its danger, and the Manju Sacred King and Shen Hongye discussed pairing them together.

• Li Wei asked Chen Mu why he treated Iron Soul City's people well despite automation, and Chen Mu described his commitment to social development and sent her his plan.
• Chen Mu asked Shi Xing about the Yin Five Elements Legion, and Shi Xing reported that its synchronization rate had passed sixty percent among five thousand members.
• Chen Mu received an alert that rune satellites had lost sight of several Extreme Evil Imperial Court ace legions and suspected the annual sacrificial ceremony would face trouble.
• At the Nether Emperor Temple, Mingye approached the Nether River, and Lu Yi warned her that its water could dissolve spirit bodies.
• Lu Yi told Mingye that the Nether River had once been much larger, while the Manju Sacred King and Shen Hongye watched them and Shen Hongye suggested bringing them together.

At Mingye’s public ceremony, Supreme Evil Sacred King launched an attack and demanded the Netherworld Pearl, forcing Manju Sacred King into a confrontation. He revealed that he had secured the Night Watchers’ agreement and offered to withdraw if Manju defeated him; otherwise, she had to surrender the pearl and let him compete to become Netherworld Lord.

• Manju Sacred King brought Mingye, Lu Yi, and Shen Hongye to the ceremony, which began without Chen Mu.
• Manju Sacred King sensed danger and told Shen Hongye to summon the legion as Supreme Evil Sacred King’s troops emerged from the woods and surrounded the altar.
• Supreme Evil Sacred King demanded that Manju hand over the Netherworld Pearl, while Manju met his domain with her own.
• Shen Hongye called for soldiers from the imperial capital, and Manju challenged Supreme Evil Sacred King’s ability to stop her from leaving with her people.
• Supreme Evil Sacred King claimed the ten million soldiers would die if Manju fled, said he had reached an agreement with the three Night Watchers, and demanded a chance to compete for the Netherworld Lord’s position.
• Supreme Evil Sacred King surrounded the temple with more than six thousand elite Core Formation Realm troops, prepared to use the Blood Slaughter and Absolute Evil battle formations.

The Supreme Evil Sacred King attacked the Manju Sacred King’s altar after she refused to surrender Mingye’s bonded Netherworld Pearl. As the battle raged, Lu Yi helped Mingye escape toward the Manju Imperial Capital while he stayed behind to hold off Qin Yue.

• Shen Hongye proposed leading the personal guards in a breakout, but the Manju Sacred King said the enemy’s battle formations made escape impossible and ordered them to hold their ground.
• The Manju Sacred King asked Mingye if she would accept handing over the Netherworld Pearl, and Mingye suggested seeking help from the powerful guests at the ceremony.
• The Supreme Evil Sacred King announced that the Night Watchers had approved his bid for the Netherworld Lord position and demanded the Netherworld Pearl.
• The Manju Sacred King offered to lend him the pearl for three years, but he demanded complete control, and she refused because it was bonded to Mingye.
• The Supreme Evil Sacred King ordered Blood Slaughter and the Utter Evil Legion to attack the altar’s defenders.
• Lu Yi tried to escort Mingye out, fought Qin Yue when he blocked them, and Mingye fled toward the Manju Imperial Capital.

Mingye escaped the Supreme Evil Sacred King’s attack but was captured by Ye Feng and the Spiderweb Legion. When Chen Mu revealed that Asura was attacking the Supreme Evil Sacred King’s palace, the Supreme Evil Sacred King chose to save the Netherworld Pearl, taking Mingye and abandoning his troops as he fled.

• Mingye dodged the Supreme Evil Sacred King’s attack and headed toward the approaching Maha Legion, but Ye Feng and the Spiderweb Legion trapped and captured her.
• The Maha Legion arrived, but the Spiderweb Legion joined the Blood Slaughter Legion and Utter Evil, while the Manju Sacred King fought the Supreme Evil Sacred King.
• The Supreme Evil Sacred King ordered his forces to retreat as more Manju legions approached.
• Chen Mu used a Talisman Puppet to show the Supreme Evil Sacred King that Asura was attacking his imperial palace and demanded that he release Mingye.
• The Supreme Evil Sacred King took Mingye, ordered his troops to scatter, and escaped through a spatial tunnel; the Manju Sacred King pursued him while her forces attacked the fleeing troops.

Chen Mu and Mingye watched the Asura Sacred King’s attack devastate the Extreme Evil Imperial Palace, while Chen worried about the hidden remnants of the Heavenly Court. The Supreme Evil Sacred King arrived and demanded Liu Dong’s inner world from the Asura Sacred King.

• Ren Lie killed a gray-haired elder and used a Ruin Stone to destroy the elder’s inner world, preventing his revival.
• Chen Mu watched the battle from a concealed rune warship with Mingye and noted that the Asura Sacred King’s forces had infiltrated and weakened the palace’s defenses.
• Chen Mu voiced concern that the remnants of the Heavenly Court had an unknown power backing them, while Mingye urged him to focus on the battle at hand.
• The Asura Sacred King shattered the body of Liu Dong, the Mid Saint Level palace defender, as the remaining defenses crumbled.
• The Supreme Evil Sacred King arrived carrying Mingye’s puppet double and demanded that the Asura Sacred King surrender Liu Dong’s inner world.

The Supreme Evil Sacred King fought the Asura Sacred King and his allies, then fled when Manju joined the battle. With the Saint Level experts gone, Chen Mu launched a surprise attack on the Asura army and sent Han Xiao’s Rushing Thunder Legion into the fray.

• The Supreme Evil Sacred King injured Ren Lie, sealed Mingye in ice, and confronted the Asura Sacred King over Liu Dong’s inner world.
• The Asura Sacred King demanded the Netherworld Pearl, and the Supreme Evil Sacred King attacked him and his three companions with the Battle Axe of Hatred.
• The Manju Sacred King joined the battle after hearing that the Supreme Evil Sacred King had taken her daughter, helping the Asura Sacred King drive him into retreat.
• The Asura Sacred King and the Manju Sacred King pursued the fleeing Supreme Evil Sacred King.
• Chen Mu ordered the runic warship to bombard the Asura army, then deployed Han Xiao’s Rushing Thunder Legion in its battle formation.

Chen Mu and Mingye joined a surprise attack on the Asura Imperial Court forces occupying the Extreme Evil Imperial Palace. Chen Mu’s recruited bandits and summoned warriors overwhelmed the exhausted army, while Mingye pursued its fleeing commander.

• Chen Mu told Mingye that Han Xiao had recruited hundreds of thousands of bandits by supplying them with compressed food, and that nearly seventy or eighty thousand had gathered for the attack.
• Chen Mu and Mingye left the battleship to join the battle as the Asura army, already exhausted from fighting the palace defenders, faced the ambush.
• Chen Mu ordered the Asura soldiers killed, then summoned one hundred and nine Dharma Aspect True Bodies and ten Five Elements War Soldiers to crush their ranks.
• Mingye chased the fleeing Asura legion commander, suspecting he might be carrying treasures from the palace.

The Manju Sacred King rescued Mingye from the Supreme Evil Sacred King and left the battle, preserving the balance between the Sacred Kings. Luo Nianhan, the Ghost Sword Saint, then challenged her for the Netherworld Pearl, and she warned him to stop as their fight escalated.

• The Manju Sacred King agreed to stop attacking the Supreme Evil Sacred King in exchange for Mingye, and he handed over the ice block containing her.
• The Manju Sacred King freed Mingye and learned she was unharmed; Mingye concealed that she was a puppet double while her true body attacked the Extreme Evil Imperial Palace.
• The Manju Sacred King chose not to interfere further in the fight between the Supreme Evil Sacred King and the Asura Sacred King, then prepared to return to the Manju Imperial Capital with Mingye.
• Luo Nianhan, the Ghost Sword Saint, appeared and asked the Manju Sacred King to let him inspect the Netherworld Pearl.
• Luo Nianhan attacked with his Ghost Baleful Intent Sword Domain and a domain technique, but the Manju Sacred King suppressed him and warned him to stop or die.

Chen Mu and Mingye broke into the Extreme Evil Imperial Palace’s inner treasury and found vast stores of precious materials, spirit plants, and World Crystals. They left without finding a sacred artifact, but Chen Mu promised to upgrade Mingye’s spatial dagger after she reached Saint Level.

• Mingye caught and killed the fleeing leader of the Asura Legion, while Chen Mu ordered his forces to loot the palace.
• Gao Fenghai told Chen Mu that a powerful array protected the treasury, and Chen Mu used the supercomputer to analyze its Nine-Bend Soul-Bewildering Array.
• Mingye entered the array and destroyed its foundations while Chen Mu helped with Formation-Breaking Flags until they opened a passage.
• Chen Mu blasted open the inner treasury gates, and he and Mingye found mountains of high-grade spirit ores, spirit plants, and World Crystals.
• Chen Mu collected useful materials, and Mingye regretted that the treasury held no sacred artifact.
• Chen Mu promised to upgrade Mingye’s spatial dagger to sacred artifact level once she reached Saint Level, and she accepted his promise.

Chen Mu discovered evidence that the Asura Sacred King had allied with the undead and warned the Manju Sacred King to return to the capital. The Manju Sacred King tried to flee after learning the Supreme Evil Sacred King had fallen, but Wu Qianqiu destroyed her escape tunnel and confronted her.

• Chen Mu checked the rune satellite scans and found an unusually large undead tide targeting the Manju Imperial Court.
• Xiaozhi detected two additional powerful life-forms, prompting Chen Mu to warn the Manju Sacred King through Mingye that the Asura Sacred King had allied with the undead.
• Mingye warned the Manju Sacred King, who learned from Luo Nianhan that the Asura Sacred King had sent him to her.
• The Manju Sacred King attempted to open a spatial tunnel after sensing that the Supreme Evil Sacred King had been killed, but Wu Qianqiu blasted the tunnel apart.
• Wu Qianqiu said the Asura Sacred King wanted to discuss ruling the world together with the Manju Sacred King.

Mingye, Chen Mu, and the Manju Sacred King escaped the conspiracy at the sacrificial ceremony after Mingye’s substitute drew their pursuers away and self-destructed. The Manju Sacred King asked whether Mingye had foreseen the danger, and Mingye said they had not expected the Asura Sacred King’s larger plot.

• The Manju Sacred King fled from Wu Qianqiu, but Wu Qianqiu used witchcraft to slow her down as powerful pursuers closed in.
• Mingye’s substitute left the Manju Sacred King and drew the pursuers away, while Mingye’s true body told her mother to fly toward Chen Mu.
• Chen Mu fired a Limitless Annihilation Bullet at Wu Qianqiu, breaking her hold on the Manju Sacred King.
• The Manju Sacred King boarded Chen Mu’s runic warship, and Chen Mu cloaked it and escaped with her and Mingye.
• Mingye’s substitute self-destructed with power comparable to ten Ultimate Devil Spirit Bullets, delaying the pursuers.
• The Manju Sacred King asked if Mingye had planned the events, and Mingye said they had only intended to turn the scheme against the Supreme Evil Sacred King’s forces.

Chen Mu and the Manju Sacred King realized the Asura Sacred King might be working with the undead, then hurried to recover the Supreme Evil Sacred King's inner world before it could be destroyed. After the Manju Sacred King collected it, they feared the Asura Sacred King had gone to attack the Manju Imperial Palace.

• The Manju Sacred King questioned Mingye about keeping Chen Mu's plan secret, and Chen Mu defended her while criticizing the Sacred King's indecisive leadership.
• Chen Mu and the Manju Sacred King discussed the undead gathering in Manju territory and the danger of the Asura Sacred King joining forces with the Undead Supreme.
• Chen Mu learned that the Supreme Evil Sacred King's inner world might survive for hours and decided to retrieve it before the Asura Sacred King could destroy it.
• The Manju Sacred King opened teleportation passages to speed the warship to the site where the Supreme Evil Sacred King had been killed.
• The Manju Sacred King collected the collapsing inner world into a black bead, and she and Chen Mu headed back to the palace, fearing the Asura Sacred King had gone there.

The Asura Sacred King tried to draw the Manju Sacred King out by threatening civilians, then attacked her warship when it arrived. Chen Mu used Spirit Magnetization Technology to transport the warship into the palace, where the Manju Sacred King could take shelter behind its formation.

• The Asura Sacred King threatened civilians and killed many with a saber strike, but Shen Hongye and the others said the Manju Sacred King was absent from the palace.
• The Asura Sacred King spotted the Manju Sacred King aboard an approaching warship and intercepted it with Ren Changsheng and Wu Qianqiu.
• The Manju Sacred King rejected the Asura Sacred King's demand to submit, and the warship vanished despite the three Sacred Kings trying to trap it with their domains.
• Wu Qianqiu sensed that the warship had entered the palace, so the Asura Sacred King ordered Ren Changsheng and Wu Qianqiu to help break the palace formation.
• Chen Mu safely brought the warship into the palace using Spirit Magnetization Technology, and the Manju Sacred King welcomed their arrival.

The Manju Sacred King activated the Nether Rebirth Grand Formation to weaken the attackers at the Manju Imperial Palace, while Chen Mu chose to confront Ren Changsheng. Chen Mu used Little Blue and his Law Cloak with Nine Yang Orthodox Lightning to drive Ren Changsheng back, but their battle remained unresolved.

• The Manju Sacred King created the Nether Rebirth Grand Formation, filling the area around the palace with spider lilies and disorienting the six attacking Saint Level experts.
• The Asura Sacred King and Ren Changsheng endured the formation’s pressure and destroyed several of its foundations, prompting the Manju Sacred King to engage the Asura Sacred King.
• Chen Mu transformed Little Blue into a flaming longsword and charged Ren Changsheng, whose evil spirits began consuming the spider lilies.
• Chen Mu used his Law Cloak and Nine Yang Orthodox Lightning to repel Ren Changsheng’s attacks and force him to retreat temporarily.

Chen Mu used the Law Cloak to hold off Ren Changsheng while the Manju Sacred King repelled the Asura Sacred King, forcing the invaders to retreat. The next day, as crises mounted on several fronts and Chen Mu reported that many Talisman Puppets had been damaged, he urged the Manju Sacred King to expand by persuading the chaotic Extreme Evil Imperial Court to submit.

• Chen Mu drew on the Netherworld's Heavenly Dao power through the Law Cloak and fought Ren Changsheng, while the Manju Sacred King suppressed the Asura Sacred King inside the Nether Rebirth Formation.
• The Asura Sacred King withdrew and threatened to send his armies against the Manju Imperial Court, and Ren Changsheng left after telling Chen Mu that they would meet again.
• The next morning, the Manju Sacred King received reports of widespread Undead Tides, an Asura army gathering at the border, and Ren Lie mobilizing troops amid turmoil in the Extreme Evil Imperial Court.
• Chen Mu told the Manju Sacred King that using the Imperial Court's Rune Artifacts in battle had burned out the Rune Cores of half its robots, leaving few Talisman Puppets ready to deploy.
• Chen Mu proposed persuading people in the chaotic Extreme Evil Imperial Court to submit to the Manju Imperial Court and strengthen it.

Chen Mu offered the Manju Sacred King an inexhaustible food supply made by Rune Artifacts, hoping to win the Extreme Evil Imperial Court’s civilians without battle. He brought her and her ministers to Iron Soul City to demonstrate the technology, where they saw the city’s unusual construction and defenses.

• Chen Mu told the Manju Sacred King he could provide enough food for everyone in the Netherworld using synthesizers that converted common substances into food.
• Lu Yi praised Chen Mu after learning the synthesizers could use materials such as soil, sand, stone, wood, and gas.
• The Manju Sacred King asked to see the food-making process, and Chen Mu invited her to Iron Soul City through a teleportation array.
• The Manju Sacred King was astonished by Iron Soul City’s towering buildings and orderly streets as Chen Mu led the group toward the city lord’s residence.
• Shen Hongye questioned why cultivators were allowed to fly through the city, and Chen Mu pointed out a stargazing platform armed with cannons.

Chen Mu showed the Manju Sacred King how his food synthesizers could supply huge numbers of people, and agreed to expand production while his legions cleared undead. A month later, the Manju Imperial Court’s offer of grain drew people away from the Extreme Evil Imperial Court, prompting Ren Changsheng and the Asura Sacred King to consider the threat.

• Chen Mu took the Manju Sacred King through his food production workshop and explained that it could feed nearly a million people.
• Chen Mu promised to expand production to feed a hundred million people within a month, and the Manju Sacred King directed him to focus on the synthesizers while his legions cleared undead.
• A month later, a scout told Ren Changsheng that people were fleeing to the Manju Imperial Court after it offered grain to those who submitted.
• Ren Changsheng ordered his forces to retrieve the fleeing people and kill anyone who resisted.
• The Asura Sacred King warned Ren Changsheng that the Manju Imperial Court might have a way to increase grain production, but Ren Changsheng dismissed the possibility.

Ren Changsheng tightened border controls to stop defections while Chen Mu used popular support to expand the Manju Imperial Court into Extreme Evil territory. After capturing four royal-city territories in a month, Chen Mu’s growing army prepared to advance on Zi'an City, while a young newcomer arrived seeking grain.

• Ren Changsheng persuaded the Asura Sacred King to punish defectors’ families and promised to unleash undead during the next attack.
• Shen Hongye told the Manju Sacred King that Asura and Extreme Evil’s border restrictions had slowed the arrival of outsiders.
• Chen Mu argued that oppression would turn the people against their rulers and announced he would lead a campaign against the Extreme Evil Imperial Court.
• Chen Mu led the Yin Five Elements and Rushing Thunder legions and hundreds of thousands of bandits to capture four royal-city territories in a month.
• Chen Mu ordered Shi Xing to build a spirit-magnetic base station and prepare to attack Zi'an City after three days.
• A young man from the western city joined the army, hoping to obtain enough grain for his family.

Zhou Yining used the Manju Imperial Court’s abundant compressed rations to feed the children in her care, while the Asura Sacred King and Ren Changsheng arranged to assassinate Chen Mu. Ren Changsheng accepted the job in exchange for a Blood God Lure and ten ninth-grade Yin Stones, and agreed to bring back Chen Mu’s inner world.

• A young soldier collected compressed rations and learned they could feed far more people than the military’s standard allotment suggested.
• Zhou Yining returned to the western city and shared her rations with the children, who eagerly ate instant noodles together.
• The Asura Sacred King confronted Ren Changsheng over the Manju Imperial Court’s growing food supply and identified Chen Mu’s Rune Artifacts as the cause.
• Ren Changsheng and the Asura Sacred King discussed Chen Mu’s origins, defenses, and the difficulty of killing him by surprise.
• The Asura Sacred King offered Ren Changsheng a Blood God Lure and ten ninth-grade Yin Stones to kill Chen Mu and retrieve his inner world.

Chen Mu led the Manju Imperial Court’s army into Zemeng City and negotiated with its lord, Dugu He, who proposed a wager instead of surrendering. Chen Mu’s Heavenly Stem Spirit Particle Shield initially blocked Dugu He’s prepared attack, but Dugu He empowered it further and broke through the shield, leaving the strike racing toward Chen Mu.

• The Manju Imperial Court’s army shattered Zemeng City’s defenses, entered with support from locals and defecting defenders, and overwhelmed the city’s troops.
• Dugu He, lord of Zemeng City, confronted Chen Mu and explained that he wanted to protect his people from the war between the Imperial Courts.
• Chen Mu urged Dugu He to join the Manju Imperial Court, but Dugu He proposed a wager: he would withdraw if Chen Mu endured one attack without using the Netherworld’s Heavenly Dao.
• Chen Mu agreed and formed the Heavenly Stem Spirit Particle Shield from two Five Elements Rings to block Dugu He’s Yama Void-Breaking Finger.
• Dugu He summoned ten illusory deities and empowered his attack with Chen Mu’s name, breaking through the shield as the strike continued toward Chen Mu.

Chen Mu defeated Dugu He with his Eight Trigrams Dunjia Array, but a blood-red array suddenly abducted him. Shi Xing and the Yin Five Elements Legion pursued him and confronted Wu Qianqiu, who guarded the array.

• Chen Mu used the Eight Trigrams Dunjia Array to swallow Dugu He's attack, and Dugu He conceded defeat and left Zemeng City.
• A red beam suddenly enveloped Chen Mu and pulled him away, so Shi Xing led the Yin Five Elements Legion in pursuit.
• Shi Xing found Wu Qianqiu guarding a blood-red array in a mountain clearing and demanded that she release Chen Mu.
• The Yin Five Elements Legion combined its auxiliary armor into a Great Five Elements Cannon and blasted Wu Qianqiu, who blocked the attack with one hand.
• The legion vanished into the forest, and Wu Qianqiu's Voodoo Domain was held back by pillars of light forming a Five Elements Ring.

Chen Mu was trapped in the Blood God Lure Great Formation while Shi Xing and the Yin Five Elements Legion tried to break him out. Shi Xing detonated a fusion-powered attack that opened the formation but killed his comrades, and Ren Changsheng pierced Chen Mu through the chest as he mourned them.

• Ren Changsheng hunted Chen Mu across the blood sea, and Chen Mu realized he could only wait for help or for the realm's energy to run out.
• Chen Mu sensed the Five Elements Ring outside and feared Shi Xing would risk his life to save him, while Ren Changsheng claimed Wu Qianqiu was guarding the formation.
• Shi Xing ordered the Yin Five Elements Legion to burn their essence blood and form a sphere of intense heat, then fused a rune into it despite knowing the attack would kill them.
• The sphere exploded and blasted open the Blood God Lure Great Formation, but Chen Mu believed Shi Xing and the legion had died in the blast.
• As Chen Mu grieved and regretted suppressing his cultivation, Ren Changsheng pierced his chest from behind.

Chen Mu escaped Ren Changsheng’s Blood God Lure formation after discovering he had no organs, then gathered the souls of the five thousand fallen legion members. He broke through to Saint Level while fighting Wu Qianqiu and burned her within his Eight Gates Blazing Sun Formation, as Ren Changsheng escaped the Five Elements War Soldiers and moved to intervene.

• Chen Mu blasted Ren Changsheng away, escaped the blood realm, and used Soul-Summoning Talismans to gather the souls of the five thousand legion members.
• Ren Changsheng and Wu Qianqiu confronted Chen Mu, who formed a Law Cloak and attacked Wu Qianqiu while his Five Elements War Soldiers trapped Ren Changsheng.
• Chen Mu released his internal world and broke through to Saint Level, greatly increasing his power.
• Chen Mu struck Wu Qianqiu, pursued her as she turned into liquid, and sealed her inside the Eight Gates Blazing Sun Formation.
• Ren Changsheng shattered one of the Five Elements War Soldiers, escaped the array, and sent black Qi toward Chen Mu’s formation to stop him from killing Wu Qianqiu.

Shi Xing and the five thousand ghosts awakened inside Chen Mu’s inner world and realized they had died, while Chen Mu pursued Wu Qianqiu outside. After Spirit Magnetic Waves overwhelmed the ghosts, they recovered with more solid bodies and discovered they could use martial techniques.

• Shi Xing and Ye Fengdeng recognized their surroundings as Chen Mu’s inner world and concluded that their souls had been taken there after death.
• The ghosts saw Wu Qianqiu outside as Chen Mu’s inner world shook, and Shi Xing realized Chen Mu had broken through to Saint Level and was chasing her for revenge.
• Ye Fengdeng touched Spirit Magnetic Waves, which swarmed into him, and Shi Xing and the other soldiers were pulled into the same force as they tried to help.
• The ghosts regained control of their bodies and found that they felt more solid and were no longer harmed by Spirit Magnetic Waves.
• Ye Fengdeng used Five Elements Blazing Flame Palm, revealing that the ghosts could still use martial techniques.