Recaps

As a lightning tribulation descended over the Star Divine Sect, Jun Wudao feared the unknown ancestral figure’s power and chose to attack the sect before events could change. He unleashed his Ten Directions assault against the sect’s defenders, and their formation failed as his dark beams bore down on them.

• Jun Wudao saw the seven-colored lightning tribulation and decided to attack the Star Divine Sect rather than wait for its ancestral figure to appear.
• Jun Wudao summoned ten dark soul palaces and their phantoms, then unleashed Annihilation of the Ten Directions.
• The Star Divine Sect’s elders, hall masters, peak masters, and disciples formed the All-Heavens Star Formation to resist the attack.
• Jun Wudao’s dark radiance shattered the formation’s gathered power and continued toward the Star Divine Sect as its defenders cried that they could not hold it back.

Feng Jue emerged from the Star Forbidden Ground and stopped Jun Wudao’s attack on the Star Divine Sect, revealing that he was near the Tribulation Transcendence Realm. After ordering the sect’s survivors to retreat, Feng Jue launched another attack at Jun Wudao, leaving their battle underway.

• Jun Wudao’s dark radiance collided with a vast starlight hand, and the resulting shockwaves wounded Star Divine Sect elders and disciples and destroyed buildings.
• Feng Jue appeared from the Star Forbidden Ground and confronted Jun Wudao, who mocked his cultivation as Great Perfection of the Divine Soul Realm and near a breakthrough.
• Feng Jue ordered the Star Divine Sect members to retreat a hundred thousand miles, and elders carried Jiang Xiaotian and Daoist Yinyang away.
• Feng Jue unleashed “Sun and Moon Illuminate the Heavens,” manifesting countless suns and moons that surged toward Jun Wudao.

Supreme Elder Feng Jue unleashed Sun and Moon Illuminate the Heavens to kill Jun Wudao, but Jun Wudao met the attack with Annihilation of the Ten Directions and pressed Feng Jue into a fierce battle. The Star Divine Sect’s onlookers retreated as the two shattered the space around them, unable to believe Jun Wudao could match an elder about to undergo tribulation.

• Supreme Elder Feng Jue launched Sun and Moon Illuminate the Heavens, sending countless blazing stars toward Jun Wudao.
• Jun Wudao countered with Annihilation of the Ten Directions, and his dark attack broke through Feng Jue’s stellar assault.
• Jun Wudao mocked Feng Jue and sent a hundred-thousand-zhang hand entwined with Hell Nether Dragons crashing down on him.
• Feng Jue answered with a gigantic hand formed from stars and blazing suns, and the two attacks collided, tearing open the void.
• Jun Wudao and Feng Jue fought within the collapsing darkness, while Star Divine Sect members fled farther away in alarm at Jun Wudao’s strength.

Jun Wudao unleashed his True Self Blood Qi and shattered Supreme Elder Feng Jue’s Star Domain. He badly wounded Feng Jue and charged after him as Feng Jue feared for his life.

• Supreme Elder Feng Jue opened his Star Domain and trapped Jun Wudao within its power.
• Jun Wudao tested the Domain of God and prepared to answer Feng Jue’s attack with his full strength.
• Jun Wudao unleashed the Blood of the True Self, transforming the Star Domain into a blood sea and collapsing it.
• Jun Wudao struck Feng Jue in the chest, sending him flying and leaving him grievously wounded.
• Jun Wudao pursued Feng Jue as the terrified elder cried that he could not die.

Jun Wudao destroyed the Star Divine Sect, but a heavenly tribulation then declared that the taboo must be executed and attacked him. A mysterious voice erased the heavenly power, and Jun Wudao began absorbing the devastation’s origin and nirvana energy as the ruler of Heavenly Moon Commandery headed toward the Desolate Domain.

• Jun Wudao caught Grand Elder Feng Jue’s severed head as the Star Domain collapsed, killing hundreds of thousands of Star Divine Sect disciples.
• A heavenly voice proclaimed that the taboo must be executed, and two beams of destructive light descended from heavenly eyes to attack Jun Wudao.
• The ruler of Heavenly Moon Commandery and a venerable elder discussed fleeing as the heavenly might shook the commandery.
• A mysterious voice shattered the heavenly beams and erased the furious presence in the firmament, leaving the Desolate Domain devastated.
• The ruler of Heavenly Moon Commandery summoned a warship and set off for the Desolate Domain.
• Jun Wudao ordered the system to absorb the area’s origin and nirvana energy, and a devouring vortex appeared above the firmament.

Jun Wudao learned that the heavenly presence was Heavenly Thought and that the voice that intervened belonged to the supreme existence on the tenth floor. After spending all his Origin Points and Annihilation Points to improve his techniques, he endured excruciating agony as the upgrades began.

• Jun Wudao absorbed the black hole's energy and gained three million Origin Points and thirty thousand Annihilation Points.
• Jun Wudao asked the system about the heavenly might and mysterious voice, learning that the heavenly might was Heavenly Thought and the voice came from the supreme existence on the tenth floor.
• The system explained that heaven had not perceived Jun Wudao because he had died within heaven and earth, was concealed by the system, and had been inside a forbidden zone.
• Jun Wudao viewed his personal panel and ordered the system to spend all his points improving the True Self Eternal Forbidden Canon and the Heaven-Battling Forbidden Canon.
• Jun Wudao convulsed and screamed as the technique upgrades subjected him to overwhelming agony.

Jun Wudao completed the first level of the True Self Eternal Forbidden Canon, attained a True Self Physique, and advanced to the Early Divine Soul Realm as his power surged. He decided to search for Su Fan in Heavenly Moon Commandery City and redirected the Nine Nether Rebirth Boat there.

• Jun Wudao endured excruciating pain as the first level of the True Self Eternal Forbidden Canon reached perfection and his True Self Physique entered minor attainment.
• Jun Wudao’s cultivation rose to the Early Divine Soul Realm, while the million Asuras unsealed their strength to the One Tribulation Human God Realm before concealing their presence again.
• Jun Wudao tested his new power by shattering space in the Nine Nether Hall and reflected on how much stronger he had become.
• Jun Wudao reasoned that Su Fan was still in Heavenly Moon Commandery and would likely go to Heavenly Moon Commandery City, where he planned to wait for him.
• Jun Wudao redirected the Nine Nether Rebirth Boat toward Heavenly Moon Commandery City.

Su Fan endured the blood-colored flames in the Land of Divine Fall as they burned and regenerated his body, while Jiang Xueyi watched in anguish and Shangguan Feiyue urged her not to interfere. The flames were presented as a rare opportunity for Su Fan, but the chapter left him still suffering and Jiang Xueyi on the verge of rushing to him.

• Su Fan sat in the blood-colored flames and endured their scorching as his flesh and bones burned and regenerated.
• Jiang Xueyi tried to rush to Su Fan, but Shangguan Feiyue restrained her and warned that interference could ruin his chance to transform.
• Shangguan Feiyue recalled how Su Fan had rescued her from bandits and how the three of them had been driven into the abyss after he killed a divine son.
• Jiang Xueyi clenched her fists until her nails cut into her flesh as she watched Su Fan suffer.
• As Jiang Xueyi prepared to throw herself into the flames, a jade-like hand caught her arm.

Su Fan survived the destructive flame, broke through to the middle stage of the Divine Power Realm, and learned that Shangguan Feiyue came from Heavenly Moon Commandery City. She invited him and Jiang Xueyi to the upcoming Heavenly Pride Battle, then realized they might be from the Desolate Domain.

• Shangguan Feiyue urged Jiang Xueyi to trust Su Fan as he endured the blood-colored flames, while his mysterious master guided him through the transformation.
• Su Fan held on, completed his transformation, and broke through to the middle stage of the Divine Power Realm.
• Su Fan discovered that the flames had burned away his clothes and hurriedly dressed after Jiang Xueyi and Shangguan Feiyue saw him naked.
• Shangguan Feiyue revealed that she was from Heavenly Moon Commandery City and said her family would deal with the Thunder God Hall.
• Shangguan Feiyue told Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi about the commandery's upcoming Heavenly Pride Battle and invited Su Fan to participate.
• Shangguan Feiyue asked whether Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi were from the Desolate Domain.

Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi learned that the Desolate Domain had stopped sending prodigies to the interdomain tournament after repeated humiliating defeats, and Su Fan agreed to travel with Shangguan Feiyue to restore its reputation. Outside the Land of Divine Fall, they heard that a cataclysmic heavenly power had struck the Desolate Domain, leaving them fearful that their homeland had collapsed.

• Shangguan Feiyue explained that the Desolate Domain had not sent prodigies to the tournament for tens of thousands of years because they were eliminated early by stronger contestants.
• Su Fan agreed to travel with Shangguan Feiyue and compete against prodigies from the other domains, and Jiang Xueyi smiled at his eagerness.
• Shangguan Feiyue, Su Fan, and Jiang Xueyi left the Land of Divine Fall and met her maid Xiao Tao and Dao protector Elder Mo aboard a massive warship.
• Xiao Tao said a taboo had been touched in the Desolate Domain, bringing down terrifying heavenly might that seemed to clash with an unknown existence.
• Elder Mo said the heavenly power might have destroyed the Desolate Domain, and Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi anxiously asked whether it was true.

Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi left with Shangguan Feiyue to investigate the devastation in the Desolate Domain, while Jun Wudao arrived in Heavenly Moon Commandery City and learned that the upcoming Heavenly Pride Battle might bring him face-to-face with Su Fan. The chapter left Jun Wudao and his two Asuras unable to find lodging because none of them had any money.

• Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi feared for their homes after Elder Mo said the Desolate Domain might have collapsed, and they prepared to leave.
• Shangguan Feiyue insisted on accompanying Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi to investigate the Desolate Domain, despite Elder Mo and Xiao Tao's objections.
• Shangguan Feiyue took Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi aboard her warship, and they departed for the Desolate Domain.
• Jun Wudao arrived in Heavenly Moon Commandery City with two Asuras and heard that the Heavenly Pride Battle would be held the following month.
• Jun Wudao looked forward to meeting Su Fan at the battle, then discovered that neither he nor the Asuras had spirit stones or divine crystals to pay for lodging.

Jun Wudao hired Fu Guiming to guide him through Heavenly Moon Commandery City and chose to stay at the boy’s home until the battle of prodigies ended. After asking about Fu Guiming’s parents, Jun Wudao learned that his mother had disappeared in a secret realm a year earlier.

• Jun Wudao met Fu Guiming, who offered to guide him around Heavenly Moon Commandery City for a mid-grade divine crystal.
• Jun Wudao hired Fu Guiming until the battle of prodigies ended and promised him a valuable payment.
• Jun Wudao told Fu Guiming to take him to his home, then followed him there with his two companions.
• Jun Wudao asked whether Fu Guiming’s parents would object to his staying, and Fu Guiming said his mother had gone into a secret realm a year earlier and never returned.

Jun Wudao reflected on the brutal uncertainty of the cultivators’ world before asking Fu Guiming about the prefect of Heavenly Moon Commandery. After hearing that the prefect was rumored to be a Second Tribulation Void God, Jun Wudao showed contempt, then sent Fu Guiming to search for Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi in exchange for a reward.

• Jun Wudao considered how cultivators risked death in pursuit of strength and resolved to keep following his blood-soaked path toward power and control over his fate.
• After a long silence, Jun Wudao asked Fu Guiming what realm the prefect of Heavenly Moon Commandery had reached.
• Fu Guiming said the prefect was rumored to be a Second Tribulation Void God, and Jun Wudao responded with an inscrutable, disdainful smile.
• Fu Guiming grew terrified, interpreting Jun Wudao’s contempt as proof that he was an extraordinary figure backed by a powerful faction.
• Jun Wudao dismissed Fu Guiming and instructed him to report any information he found about Su Fan or Jiang Xueyi, promising a generous reward for accurate news.

Jun Wudao sent Fu Guiming to discreetly seek information about Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi, while an Asura followed him in secret. The next day, Shangguan Xiongtian and his subordinates examined the Star Divine Sect’s ruins and learned that the Jun Clan had also recently been wiped out by a youth.

• Jun Wudao promised Fu Guiming cultivation resources and treasures if he helped find Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi, and Fu Guiming eagerly agreed.
• Jun Wudao secretly ordered an Asura to follow Fu Guiming and report if he found anyone named Su Fan or Jiang Xueyi.
• The next day, Shangguan Xiongtian and thousands of powerful figures arrived at the Star Divine Sect’s devastated grounds and discussed the destruction’s immense toll.
• Shangguan Xiongtian’s subordinates recalled that the Star Divine Sect had been one of the Desolate Domain’s five pinnacle powers and that the Jun Clan had recently been destroyed by a youth.

Shangguan Xiongtian and the others discussed whether the youth who destroyed the Jun Clan was connected to the taboo, then Shangguan Feiyue arrived with Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi. Jiang Xueyi found the Star Divine Sect reduced to ruins and cried out in grief, while Shangguan Feiyue explained to her father how the two had saved her.

• A venerable elder suggested the youth who killed the Jun Clan ancestor might be connected to the existence who touched the taboo, and Shangguan Xiongtian ordered Elder Qu and Elder Peng to investigate him.
• Shangguan Feiyue arrived with Su Fan, Jiang Xueyi, Elder Mo, Xiao Tao, and the others from the Profound Domain, and greeted Shangguan Xiongtian and the elders.
• Jiang Xueyi saw the destroyed Star Divine Sect and cried out for her parents, then broke free of Su Fan and rushed down toward the ruins.
• Su Fan followed Jiang Xueyi as she descended into the ruins, sharing her anguish.
• Shangguan Xiongtian asked who Jiang Xueyi was, and Shangguan Feiyue explained that she and Su Fan had saved her from villains in the Land of Divine Fall.

Shangguan Xiongtian explained that a young heaven’s chosen may have triggered the disaster that destroyed the Star Divine Sect and much of the Desolate Domain. He identified the suspected youth as the one who fought his way into the Jun Clan, leaving Jiang Xueyi and Su Fan with a lead for their revenge.

• Shangguan Feiyue asked her father and the elders to set aside questions about her danger and explain what had happened.
• Jiang Xueyi mourned the destruction of the Star Divine Sect and cried out in anguish while Su Fan struggled to comfort her.
• Jiang Xueyi and Su Fan demanded to know who had caused the catastrophe so they could seek revenge.
• Shangguan Xiongtian said a taboo had drawn down a Heavenly Thought, which a supreme existence destroyed, and the battle’s aftermath devastated more than half the Desolate Domain.
• Shangguan Xiongtian said the suspected culprit was the youth who had fought his way into the Jun Clan.

Shangguan Xiongtian suspected that Su Fan was connected to the taboo that had triggered a disaster, but Su Fan and his companions insisted he was innocent. After learning Su Fan was the young man who had killed a Jun Clan ancestor, Shangguan Xiongtian praised his strength and invited him and his friends to compete in the Divine Dynasty Heavenly Pride Battle.

• Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi challenged Shangguan Xiongtian to explain why he suspected Su Fan, and he said his conclusion was only a conjecture.
• Elder Qu recognized Su Fan as the young man who had stormed the Jun Clan and killed its divine soul realm middle-stage ancestor in three moves.
• Shangguan Xiongtian's pressure overwhelmed Su Fan until his master's power relieved it, and Shangguan Xiongtian confirmed Su Fan's identity.
• Su Fan denied touching the taboo, and Shangguan Feiyue vouched that he and Jiang Xueyi had been training with her in the Profound Domain.
• Shangguan Xiongtian praised Su Fan's combat strength, asked Shangguan Feiyue whether she would return with him, and invited her friends to join the Heavenly Pride Battle after she chose to stay.

After returning to Storm City, Su Fan once again found his family in ruins and someone else comforting Jiang Xueyi. Meanwhile, Jun Wudao investigated Heavenly Moon Commandery City and considered whether his million Asuras could destroy it without attracting attention from the Divine Capital.

• Shangguan Xiongtian left after inviting Su Fan, while Shangguan Feiyue wondered why her father was acting strangely.
• Su Fan returned to Storm City and found the same devastating situation with his family, while someone else comforted Jiang Xueyi.
• Jun Wudao asked Fu Guiming to search for news of Su Fan and Jiang Xueyi ahead of the Heavenly Pride Battle, which was twenty-two days away.
• An Asura reported that Heavenly Moon Commandery City had only fifteen Tribulation Transcendence Realm powerhouses, including its Second Tribulation Void God Realm commandery governor.
• Jun Wudao considered using his million Asuras to wipe out the commandery and wondered whether doing so would alert the Divine Capital.

Fu Guiming's mother arrived at Jun Wudao's courtyard and attacked him and the Asura, believing they had captured her son. Jun Wudao denied it, but she remained convinced that they had come to take her back.

• Jun Wudao dismissed the threat posed by powerful factions, confident in his ability to grow stronger through slaughter and in the supreme being within the tenth seal.
• Fu Guiming's mother entered the courtyard and greeted her son, then attacked Jun Wudao and the Asura when she saw them.
• The Asura deflected her first palm strike and clashed with her second, shattering the space between them.
• Fu Guiming's mother demanded to know where her son was and what Jun Wudao had done to him.
• Jun Wudao asked whether she was Fu Guiming's mother and told her that they were not her enemies and had not captured her son.
• Fu Guiming's mother refused to believe Jun Wudao and threatened him unless he released her son.

Jun Wudao told the stunning woman that he and the Asura had come only to lodge and were not there to capture her or her son, Fu Guiming. After she mentioned the Central Imperial, Jun Wudao hinted that he knew about the force pursuing them, leaving her terrified by his warning that she could not escape if he chose to kill her.

• Jun Wudao told the stunning woman that Fu Guiming had gone out and would return soon.
• The stunning woman questioned whether Jun Wudao and the Asura had come to capture her and her son.
• Jun Wudao said they were merely lodging for a few days and told her to ask Fu Guiming when he returned.
• The stunning woman remarked that Jun Wudao and the Asura were too weak to come from the Central Imperial, prompting Jun Wudao to consider the powerful force pursuing her and her son.
• Jun Wudao hinted that he knew about the Central Imperial and said they would leave once their matters were settled.
• The stunning woman demanded to know who Jun Wudao was, and he warned that she could not escape if he wanted to kill her and Fu Guiming.

Mu Yunxi confronted Jun Wudao, suspecting he had come for her and her son because he knew about the Central Imperial Court. Jun Wudao taunted her by claiming her son was in his hands, and the Asura defeated her when she attacked.

• Mu Yunxi questioned why Jun Wudao had chosen her home and demanded to know his purpose and where her son Ming'er was.
• Jun Wudao denied having any reason to scheme against Mu Yunxi or her son, but she remained suspicious because he knew about the Central Imperial Court.
• Mu Yunxi concluded that Jun Wudao must have come from a Divine Capital of one of the ten great divine dynasties and might be seeking to capture her for the Central Imperial Court.
• Jun Wudao teased Mu Yunxi by saying her son was in his hands and asking whether she wanted to save him.
• Mu Yunxi charged at Jun Wudao, but the Asura intercepted her and smashed her silver crescent attack, knocking her down and leaving her coughing blood.

Jun Wudao stopped the Asura from killing the wounded Mu Yunxi, then threatened her son Ming'er to force her compliance. Mu Yunxi resisted and vowed to fight back as Jun Wudao described increasingly cruel ways to torment the boy.

• The Asura prepared to kill Mu Yunxi, but Jun Wudao ordered him to stop.
• Mu Yunxi realized Jun Wudao had not intended to kill her and demanded to know what he wanted.
• Jun Wudao said he had changed his mind and hinted that he wanted Mu Yunxi herself.
• Mu Yunxi refused him, so Jun Wudao threatened to torture her son Ming'er.
• Jun Wudao described horrifying punishments for Ming'er, and Mu Yunxi struggled to rise and threatened to drag them all to hell.

Mu Yunxi gave in to Jun Wudao’s threats against her son, Fu Guiming, and entered the room despite her fear and hatred. Jun Wudao told her to sit, leaving her wondering whether he intended to force himself on her immediately.

• Jun Wudao mocked Mu Yunxi and demanded to know whether she wanted to save her son.
• Mu Yunxi agreed to comply but insisted that Jun Wudao release Fu Guiming first.
• Jun Wudao threatened to torture Fu Guiming, and Mu Yunxi reluctantly entered the room to protect him.
• Jun Wudao told Mu Yunxi to sit, and she asked if he meant to do it now.

Jun Wudao questioned Mu Yunxi about the Central Imperial Court instead of accepting her attempt to undress, and she explained that it ruled the Crimson Firmament Realm through nine halls and eighteen divisions. He grew interested in its strength, while Mu Yunxi warned that even its ten subordinate divine dynasties were beyond his reach.

• Mu Yunxi mistook Jun Wudao's command for a demand to undress and began to comply, hoping to save her son.
• Jun Wudao mocked her misunderstanding and asked what kind of power the Central Imperial Court was.
• Jun Wudao threatened Mu Yunxi's son, prompting her to explain that the Central Imperial Court was the Crimson Firmament Realm's strongest force.
• Mu Yunxi said the ancient court had ruled for ages and that its nine halls and eighteen divisions could each reign supreme in the starry sky.
• Jun Wudao became interested in challenging the court, while Mu Yunxi mocked his confidence and warned that its ten divine dynasties were already beyond him.

Jun Wudao questioned Mu Yunxi about the strength of the Central Imperial Court and the Ten Great Divine Dynasties, learning how far their forces surpassed his current power. He turned his attention to the God King experts ruling the dynasties, especially the Bright Moon Divine Dynasty.

• Jun Wudao invited Mu Yunxi to sit and asked how strong the Central Imperial Court was.
• Mu Yunxi explained that its disciples ranged from Three-Tribulation True God Realm to perfected God King Realm, while its elders and leaders included Heaven-Treading Realm experts.
• Jun Wudao considered the threat posed by the Central Imperial Court and asked about the Ten Great Divine Dynasties.
• Mu Yunxi said each dynasty reportedly had several God King Realm experts presiding over it, and Jun Wudao fell into thought.