Recaps

Four Hundred Schools Mahayana cultivators discovered that Dragon Calamity had established hidden strongholds across the Eastern Wasteland and used a Spirit Network Divine Sense Tower to contact its renegades. The Technique School's head impersonated the exposed Central Fishing Island unit and claimed they were heading to No. 100, hoping to lure Dragon Calamity out.

• The Technique School's head detected a young Golden Core cultivator's warning and seized him for a soul search while Lord Shang discovered suspicious structures beneath Central Fishing Island.
• The Technique School's head tore open the mountain, revealing a hidden silver-white Spirit Network Divine Sense Tower and learning that Dragon Calamity had numerous strongholds across the four continents and five seas.
• Lord Shang urged the group to find and eliminate Dragon Calamity instead of merely destroying hidden strongholds.
• The Technique School's head breached the tower's protections and received warnings that No. 129 was exposed and units No. 122 through No. 128 should evacuate.
• The Technique School's head sent a false message claiming the No. 129 unit had escaped and would arrive at No. 100 in just over a month, requesting protection.

The Technique School's master and Lord Shang destroyed Central Fishing Island and headed for Western Sea Prefecture City to investigate Dragon Calamity. Primordial Beginning recognized Lu Li’s return, summoned Dao Court forces to the city, and revealed that Ye Chenfeng had fallen.

• The Technique School's master told Lord Shang that Dao Court rebels were hiding in Western Sea Prefecture City, then buried Central Fishing Island and its inhabitants beneath the sea.
• The Western Sea Primordial Beginning subunit flagged a suspicious message and requested permission to relocate site 100, but the main unit rejected the request after sensing Lu Li’s return.
• Primordial Beginning ordered all nearby Dao Court units to assemble at Western Sea Prefecture City, and Lu Li received the command through a subunit in his jade pendant.
• Lu Li discovered a Spirit Network base station in the deep sea, contacted Primordial Beginning, and learned that suspected enemies from the Central Continent would reach Western Sea Prefecture City within days.
• Primordial Beginning sent Lu Li records of the Dao Court’s development, and he froze when he read that Ye Chenfeng had fallen.

After learning that Ye Chenfeng had vanished in a battle with Suanni, Lu Li changed his status to missing and set out for Western Sea Prefecture City, blaming the Hundred Schools for his friend's disappearance. As Lu Li and his companions traveled, the Technique School head sensed Lu Li's Dragon Fate and declared that he had lured out the Dragon Calamity.

• Lu Li learned that Ye Chenfeng and Elder Jian had disappeared after confronting Suanni, but ordered the Dao Court to list Ye Chenfeng as missing because nobody had witnessed his death.
• Lu Li put away the magic ship and had Bone Evil use a Mahayana decree to take the party toward Western Sea Prefecture City.
• Remembering his friendship with Ye Chenfeng, Lu Li vowed to find him and resolved to make the Hundred Schools pay for his disappearance.
• Lu Li planned to visit Litian Prefecture City afterward to deliver the Divine Soul treasure and awaken Yinyang Qingfan, Dongfang Jiangxue.
• The Technique School head sensed Lu Li's Dragon Fate while traveling with the Legalist School head and announced that he had found the Dragon Calamity.

The Technique School and Legalist School patriarchs led four Mahayana cultivators to Western Sea Prefecture City, believing they could kill Lu Li before he escaped. As they attacked, they discovered that the eight figures behind him were all Mahayana cultivators.

• The Technique School patriarch tracked Lu Li’s Dragon Fate to Western Sea Prefecture City, while Lord Shang cautioned that they should kill him before he could flee.
• Dong Qing, Changming, Changye, Jiang Wuxie, Li Nanci, Qian Dabao, Ao Li, and other Dao Court figures learned that Lu Li had returned and hurried toward the city.
• After traveling for more than ten days, the four Central Continent cultivators reached the city and Lord Shang ordered them to attack together.
• The four charged into the city and targeted Lu Li, who stood before eight black-armored figures.
• The eight figures revealed Mahayana pressure, and the Technique School patriarch cried out in horror when he realized they were all Mahayana cultivators.

Lu Li ordered eight Mahayana cultivators to attack the four Central Continent venerables, revealing that Zou Heng and the Three Venerables of the Yin-Yang School had sided with Dragon Fate. As the battle devastated Western Sea Prefecture City, Lu Li’s allies arrived and saw his overwhelming force.

• Lu Li commanded eight Mahayana cultivators to seize the four Central Continent venerables, who were badly outnumbered.
• The Three Venerables of the Yin-Yang School attacked alongside Bone Evil, Jia, Yi, Bing, and Ding, prompting the Technique School's head and Lord Shang to recognize Zou Heng and accuse him of siding with Dragon Fate.
• Bone Evil unleashed the Yellow Springs Evil Domain, and the Central Continent cultivators summoned their life-bound Spirit Artifacts to defend themselves.
• Bone Evil's chopping blade broke through the Technique School's head's golden talisman and wounded two opponents, while the eight attackers continued to overwhelm the four venerables.
• The Mahayana battle ravaged Western Sea Prefecture City as Lu Li watched, and Changming, Changye, Dong Qing, Qian Dabao, and the Dao Court's senior members arrived to meet him.

Lu Li’s forces defeated the Central Continent cultivators, killing four Mahayana opponents, and he ordered the Litian Dao Court to prepare an attack on the Central Continent within a year. He left for Litian Prefecture City, hoping to subdue the Hundred Schools before they alerted the Ji Household to Dragon Fate’s return.

• The Three Venerables of the Yin-Yang School used their combined technique to kill a Legalist School Mahayana cultivator, while Bone Evil killed a Technique School Mahayana cultivator and claimed his Spirit Artifact for Lu Li.
• Bone Evil and the other Mahayana cultivators killed Lord Shang and the Technique School head, leaving none of the four Central Continent Mahayana cultivators alive.
• Lu Li ordered the Dao Court cultivators to clean up and accompany him back to Litian Prefecture City, then commanded them to prepare to march on the Central Continent within a year.
• Lu Changming questioned whether they could attack the Central Continent’s many Mahayana cultivators head-on, and Lu Li insisted they had to act quickly.
• Lu Li feared the Hundred Schools might inform the Ji Household about Dragon Fate, but reasoned they would avoid doing so unless forced, since the Ji Household had destroyed Great Jin and could draw them into another conflict.

Lu Li returned to Litian Prefecture City and reunited with the Dao Court’s leaders and his friends after hearing how the city had grown. He then met Dongfang Jiangxue and began awakening Yinyang Qingfan’s soul to strengthen the Dao Court against the Hundred Schools, while promising to separate their souls later.

• Lu Changming told Lu Li that Litian Prefecture City had expanded and that the Dao Court’s overseas campaigns had brought in territory and resources.
• Lu Li considered using teleportation arrays to improve travel across the Eastern Wasteland and asked where Jiang Xue'er was.
• The people of Litian Prefecture City recognized Lu Li as the Dao Lord and cheered as Primordial Beginning, Lu Yao, Yuanhao, Qiu Mingzi, Li Yuanchao, Wang Zhiwen, and others welcomed him.
• Lu Li took Dongfang Jiangxue to a cultivation hall and told her he would awaken Yinyang Qingfan’s soul before finding a way to separate their souls.
• Dongfang Jiangxue agreed, and Lu Li used treasures from the Bone Mountain Immortal Market to nourish her Divine Soul as an unfamiliar presence began to awaken.

After Yinyang Qingfan's Divine Soul recovered, she warned Lu Li that the Ji Household's destruction of Great Jin suggested power at the Heavenly Immortal level was involved. Lu Li outlined his plans to conquer the Eastern Wasteland and conceal his Dragon Fate, then reviewed the Dao Court's advances and was astonished by the Dao Propagation Division's progress.

• Yinyang Qingfan absorbed the last ninth-tier Divine Soul treasure, recovered, and thanked Lu Li.
• Lu Li recounted his discoveries, and Yinyang Qingfan warned him to be wary of the Ji Household's extraordinary power.
• Lu Li told Yinyang Qingfan that he planned to destroy the Hundred Schools within a year, unite the Eastern Wasteland, and hide his Dragon Fate while preparing to ascend.
• Lu Li left resources for Yinyang Qingfan and went to the assembly hall, where Primordial Beginning presented a report on the Dao Court's development.
• Lu Li read that Lu Yao's Spirit Puppet Division had developed biomimetic bodies capable of cultivation up to Spirit Transformation, then turned to the Dao Propagation Division's achievements.

Lu Li prepared the Dao Court to overthrow the Hundred Schools and unify the Eastern Wasteland, while Bing Wuji watched the Hundred Schools collapse into panic. The chapter ended with the Legalist School's remaining Mahayana Venerable deciding to flee the Eastern Wasteland with his people.

• Lu Li rewarded and promoted the Dao Court's division heads, then announced that the Dao Court would overthrow the Hundred Schools and unify the Eastern Wasteland within a year.
• Lu Li spent the year with Lu Yao and his parents, managed the Dao Court, invested its treasury in the fish-shaped jade pendant, and tried to refine the Saint Soul Infant Fruit and Pseud-Immortal Seed.
• The Dao Court monitored the Hundred Schools as their leaders panicked after four Central Continent Venerables were killed.
• Bing Wuji rejected the Hundred Schools' leaders, ordered his people to watch them, and commanded that any who tried to leave the Central Continent or Eastern Wasteland be killed.
• The Legalist School's remaining Mahayana Venerable recalled Lord Shang's shattered name tablet and ordered his clansmen to gather and leave the Eastern Wasteland.

The Hundred Schools tried to escape the Central Continent and seek help from the Ji Household, but an unseen iron-armored figure killed every group before they reached the starry sky. The survivors blamed Dragon Fate, and after a year of fear, they remained trapped and certain he was coming.

• The Legalist School's Mahayana cultivator decided to seek the Ji Household, sending a Tribulation Transcendence True Venerable and five Dao Integration cultivators toward the starry sky.
• An iron-armored figure killed the Legalist School group beneath the astral winds, and the Legalist School's life tablets revealed the deaths.
• The Medical School's escape party was struck by deep blue lightning and reduced to ash, leaving its head terrified and baffled.
• The Music Household sent out four cultivators in separate directions, but all died before reaching the starry sky.
• The other leading Households also failed to escape, and many concluded that Dragon Fate had trapped them in the Central Continent.
• A year passed without anyone daring to flee again, as the Hundred Schools awaited Dragon Fate's arrival.

Lu Li led nine Mahayana cultivators from Litian Prefecture City toward the Central Continent, where he planned to strike the Hundred Schools while the Dao Court followed to unify the Eastern Wasteland. After traveling through Great Xia’s newly developed short-range teleportation arrays, they reached the Endless Central Sea, just short of the Central Continent.

• Lu Li instructed Primordial Beginning to organize the Central Continent and unify the Eastern Wasteland as the Dao Court’s forces arrived.
• Lu Li departed with Bone Evil A, B, C, and D, the Three Venerables of the Yin-Yang School, and Yinyang Qingfan.
• Lu Li and his companions used seven short-range teleportation arrays to cross the Eastern Wasteland and reach the edge of the Endless Central Sea.
• Lu Li considered the resources in the sea’s Endless Deep Trenches but chose not to delay his attack because he feared the Ji Household.
• Lu Li looked toward the Central Continent and ordered his companions onward.

Lu Li and the nine Mahayana cultivators entered the Central Continent through the Mystic Firmament Heavenly Wall, alerting the Hundred Schools to their arrival. As Zou Heng led them toward the nearby Miscellaneous School, Chu Changbo rallied the schools to fight Dragon Fate.

• Zou Heng opened a passage through the Mystic Firmament Heavenly Wall, and Lu Li led the group into the Central Continent.
• Lu Li sensed the Central Continent’s dense Spiritual Qi and asked Zou Heng which school was closest.
• The Hundred Schools sensed Lu Li’s arrival, and their members prepared to flee, resist, or unite against him.
• Chu Changbo gathered eight Mahayana cultivators and urged the Hundred Schools to join him in slaying Dragon Fate.
• Zou Heng told Lu Li that the nearest school was the Miscellaneous School.

Chu Changbo gathered ten Mahayana cultivators at the Miscellaneous School and formed an alliance to hunt Dragon Fate, but Lu Li arrived with nine powerful cultivators, including Bone Evil and Zou Heng. Lu Li ordered Bone Evil to kill the Hundred Schools’ leaders, and the battle began.

• Chu Changbo rallied the assembled school heads, became their alliance leader, and led them out to find Dragon Fate.
• Lu Li appeared with nine Mahayana cultivators, including one at Mahayana perfection and two at late Mahayana.
• The Hundred Schools’ leaders recognized Zou Heng and accused him of conspiring with Dragon Fate, but Zou Heng remained silent.
• Lu Li told Yinyang Qingfan to stay behind and ordered Bone Evil to kill the gathered cultivators.
• Chu Changbo tried to defend his group as Bone Evil counted ten opponents and smiled.

The Hundred Schools’ Mahayana cultivators fought Dragon Calamity’s forces in a desperate battle, but Bone Evil and the others steadily overwhelmed them. As several Hundred Schools cultivators fell, Chu Changbo prepared to attack Lu Li, while the Military School’s absence remained unexplained.

• Zou Heng, his brothers, and the Three Venerables of the Yin-Yang School fought Dragon Calamity’s forces while Yinyang Qingfan guarded Lu Li.
• Chu Changbo led the Hundred Schools’ ten Mahayana cultivators into battle against Dragon Calamity’s nine Mahayana fighters.
• Bone Evil, Bone Jia, and Zou Heng’s group pressured their opponents, while Chu Changbo held Bone Evil and Bone Jia at bay with his bronze scale.
• Bone Evil killed the first Hundred Schools Mahayana cultivator, and a second soon fell as the others suffered grave injuries.
• Lu Li wondered why the Military School had not joined the battle, and the Hundred Schools’ cultivators also questioned Bing Wuji’s inaction.
• Chu Changbo urged the remaining cultivators to protect him while he tried to kill Lu Li and bring down Dragon Calamity.

The Hundred Schools’ remaining Mahayana cultivators rushed Lu Li, and Chu Changbo broke through Yinyang Qingfan’s defense with a devastating strike. Lu Li chose to endure the blow himself and unleashed his full power, leaving Chu Changbo and the others reeling as the radiant aftermath began to fade.

• The eight wounded Mahayana cultivators of the Hundred Schools abandoned their opponents and charged at Lu Li, with Chu Changbo leading the way.
• Yinyang Qingfan shielded Lu Li from Chu Changbo’s attack, but his bronze steelyard beam shattered her defense and drove her back.
• Bone Evil sent Jia, Yi, Bing, and Ding to break through the Hundred Schools’ formation and rushed to save Lu Li himself.
• Lu Li refused to dodge or use another trump card and unleashed his techniques, Dragon Qi, Dao Laws, and the Divine Ability Overturning a Nation.
• The clash filled the battlefield with blinding light, injuring Chu Changbo and the other Mahayana cultivators’ Divine Senses and Law Power.
• The radiant figures obscuring Lu Li began to fade, revealing vivid attire and transcendent presences within.

Lu Li’s Dragon Qi-powered Divine Ability blocked Chu Changbo’s Mahayana attack, but the immortal and divine inheritances then fell dormant. Bone Evil and Lu Li’s allies fought the Hundred Schools’ cultivators, and after a brutal battle left Chu Changbo as the sole survivor, Bone Evil raised his saber to finish him.

• Lu Li’s Divine Ability manifested the Four Heavenly Kings and Thunder Ancestor, who blocked Chu Changbo’s attack before fading and leaving their inheritances dormant.
• Bone Evil ordered his allies to kill the Hundred Schools’ cultivators and charged at Chu Changbo while telling Lu Li to retreat.
• Bone Evil killed the Medical School head, while the Three Venerables of the Yin-Yang School and Jia, Yi, Bing, and Ding joined the attack.
• Chu Changbo and the remaining Hundred Schools’ Mahayana cultivators fought back with powerful treasures, killing Bone Bing, Bone Ding, Zou Feng, and Zou Shui.
• The Hundred Schools’ cultivators were wiped out until only Chu Changbo remained, and Bone Evil raised his saber to strike him.

After Bone Evil killed all ten enemy Mahayana leaders, Lu Li rewarded his followers with captured treasures and learned that the Hundred Schools’ compounds might hold vast stores of wealth. He led the group to loot them, beginning with the Medical School’s intact treasury.

• Chu Changbo died in the battle, reflecting that the Miscellaneous School no longer ranked last among the Hundred Schools.
• Bone Evil reported that he had executed all ten enemy Mahayana leaders and gathered their spoils.
• Lu Li let Bone Evil, Bone Jia, Bone Yi, Zou Heng, and Yinyang Qingfan each choose a storage treasure and Spirit Artifact.
• Zou Heng suggested that Chu Changbo’s storage treasure might contain the Miscellaneous School’s accumulated wealth, prompting Lu Li to order the group to loot the Hundred Schools’ compounds.
• Lu Li and his followers reached the Medical School’s empty grounds and located its intact ten-thousand-year treasury.
• Lu Li ordered the group to open the treasury’s ninth-tier restriction.

Lu Li and his companions broke into the Medical School treasury, where he seized its entire stock and fed vast resources to the fish-shaped jade pendant. As the pendant began expanding into a continent-like space, Lu Li set out to raid the remaining schools and investigate the Military School, suspecting its master had ties to the Ji Household.

• Lu Li's companions shattered the Medical School treasury's barrier, allowing Lu Li to enter and collect everything inside.
• Lu Li stored the Medical School's resources and the spoils from Mahayana cultivators in the jade pendant, counting nearly 680 billion Top-Grade Spirit Stones alone.
• Lu Li poured resources into the jade pendant and commanded it to absorb them, causing its land of life to expand toward the size of the Western Continent.
• Lu Li left the pendant to continue absorbing resources and headed to raid the remaining schools' treasuries.
• Lu Li recalled that the Military School had withdrawn from the Hundred Schools a year earlier and suspected its master, Bing Wuji, had ties to the Ji Household.

Bing Wuji worried that Dragon Calamity’s rampage might draw the powerful Ji Household’s attention and make his token useless. Meanwhile, a household vessel headed to the Awakening of Insects Continent with an injured sword cultivator and Suanni aboard, and an old man taught his grandson the Ji Household lords’ preferred way to profit: reselling what they found.

• Bing Wuji learned that Dragon Calamity had passed through the Medical School and ordered his clan’s venerables to prepare for his arrival.
• Bing Wuji wondered whether Dragon Fate had attracted the Ji Household’s attention and doubted that his Ji token could restrain him.
• A vessel carrying an old man and his grandson set out for the Awakening of Insects Continent, where they hoped to meet the Ji Household’s new Dao Child.
• The grandson praised the Ji Household’s Dao Child and dismissed Lu Li’s Immortal Seed Battle victory as likely inflated.
• The grandson suggested keeping an injured black-robed sword cultivator as a slave and the wounded Suanni Demon Beast as a breeding beast.
• The old man told his grandson that reselling what they found was better than claiming it for themselves.

Ye Chenfeng and the Suanni woke imprisoned in the Ji Household’s Combat Hall after a teleportation triggered during their fight. They learned they had been made combat slaves and were ordered to prepare for a battle in three months.

• A Ji Household official rejected an old man’s request to use his clan’s merit points to place his grandson in the Dao Child’s service.
• The old man and his grandson went to redeem their merit points after the official dismissed them.
• Ye Chenfeng woke inside a restrictive formation among imprisoned cultivators and learned from Elder Jian that he and the Suanni had been teleported to territory controlled by the Ji Household.
• The Suanni woke, recognized Ye Chenfeng, and recalled triggering an ancient formation seal while fighting him.
• The Ji Household’s Combat Hall announced that the prisoners’ first battle would begin in three months, with the defeated losing their lives.

Ye Chenfeng was imprisoned by the Ji Household and forced into deadly arena battles, but he resolved to survive so he could see Lu Li again. He entered his first fight against a Void Return cultivator determined to win and make the Ji Household pay.

• Elder Jian warned Ye Chenfeng that he had to survive the fights scheduled to begin in three months.
• Ye Chenfeng vowed to live until he could see Lu Li again, then meditated to restore his cultivation while the Suanni lion healed nearby.
• The Ji Household began the battles, and Ye Chenfeng and the Suanni lion were transported from their cages to a starry island arena.
• Spectators mocked Ye Chenfeng for being a Spirit Transformation sword cultivator, while the rules declared that the loser would die and nine victories could earn release from the slave register.
• Ye Chenfeng faced a Void Return opponent, formed nine flying swords from Spiritual Power, and prepared to fight.

Lu Li delivered plundered high-tier spiritual materials to Great Xia, enabling its researchers to begin developing tier-nine Spirit Machinery. While traveling toward the last Mahayana lineage's ancestral treasury, he read their report outlining three proposed weapons, including a Star-Shattering Warship and a Primordial Spirit impact device.

• Lu Li plundered the ancestral treasuries of eight schools and sent distinctive spiritual materials to Great Xia through the fish-shaped jade pendant.
• Li Qingshan promised that Great Xia would develop tier-nine Spirit Machinery capable of threatening Mahayana cultivators within a hundred years.
• Li Qingshan gave Lu Li a report on Great Xia's plans for tier-nine Spirit Machinery, and Lu Li ended the transmission to read it.
• Lu Li read proposals for a venerable-slaying Star-Shattering Warship and a Primordial Spirit impact device, then reached the report's third proposal, the Ruins of Return Armor.

Lu Li reviewed Great Xia’s proposed ninth-tier armor and other Spirit Machinery research, then asked whether the ten main households had been exhausted. Zou Heng said they had, but revealed that the Central Continent’s Hundred Schools also had affiliated clans, with the Dongfang Household Clan’s treasury ahead.

• Lu Li read Great Xia’s proposal for the ninth-tier Ruins of Return Armor, which required rare Dao Laws Crystals and was projected to let a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator withstand early Mahayana.
• Lu Li considered the Star-Annihilating Cannon and Dimension Compression Martial Formation, noting their potential and their slow charging times.
• Lu Li reflected that Great Xia’s Spirit Machinery projects could eventually give the Dao Court dependable power across the Imprisoned Dragon Realm.
• Lu Li asked Zou Heng which of the ten main households remained unplundered, and Zou Heng replied that all ten had been exhausted.
• Zou Heng quietly told Lu Li that affiliated clans of the Central Continent’s Hundred Schools also held treasures, and that the Dongfang Household Clan’s grounds lay ahead.

Lu Li traveled to the Military School’s main residence to confront its head, Bing Wuji, and claim its treasury. Bing Wuji revealed that the Military School could contact the Ji Household and invited Lu Li to negotiate how they would divide the Eastern Wasteland.

• After learning Dongfang Jiangxue had severed ties with her clan, Lu Li decided to postpone dealing with the affiliated clans and seek out the Military School.
• Zou Heng led Lu Li and his five companions to the Military School’s vast mountain stronghold after more than a month of travel.
• Bing Wuji met Lu Li with four other Mahayana cultivators and said he had been waiting for him.
• Bing Wuji warned that the Ji Household would want to know what Lu Li had been doing and revealed an ancient token that let the Military School contact them.
• Bing Wuji invited Lu Li inside to discuss dividing the Eastern Wasteland and keeping their arrangement hidden from the Ji Household.

Lu Li rejected Bing Wuji’s proposal to divide the Eastern Wasteland and imposed restrictions on the Military School before departing. Bing Wuji thought he had secured a temporary peace, but a powerful presence appeared behind him and declared that the talks had come too late.

• Bing Wuji offered to share control of the Eastern Wasteland with Lu Li and explained that the Military School could summon the Ji Household using its command token.
• Lu Li questioned why Bing Wuji had not called the Ji Household earlier, and Bing Wuji admitted he feared another catastrophe like the one that followed Li Taixuan’s death.
• Lu Li considered attacking Bing Wuji to seize the token, but Bing Wuji summoned immortal armor and warned that it could buy him time to contact the Ji Household.
• Lu Li restrained his presence, forbade the Military School from expanding or leaving the Central Continent without permission, and vanished with Yinyang Qingfan and the others.
• As Bing Wuji prepared to leave, a powerful pressure surged behind him and an indifferent voice said, “Peace talks now? Too late!”