Recaps

Shao interfered with the sacrificial ritual in the Black Teeth Kingdom, bringing him into conflict with the Yin Deity Yi Ming. Through the Red Eye Cauldron, Wu Zhen revealed to Yinglong and Yu that Yi Ming was the soul of the sixth Witch King, Ye Ming.

• Shao discovered that the village held the remains of a god who could cross between the living world and the Netherworld, then gathered Netherworld Qi to interfere with the ritual.
• Yi Ming projected her power before Shao and condemned him for abandoning his duties and disrupting the Netherworld’s order.
• Shao mocked Yi Ming and declared that he intended to become a Great Heavenly Deity equal to the Netherworld Lord.
• Yinglong used the Red Eye Cauldron to witness Shao’s confrontation with Yi Ming from Flying Sky Stockade.
• Wu Zhen criticized Yu for knowing so little about the Red Eye Cauldron and revealed that Yi Ming was the sixth Witch King, whose soul had become a Yin Deity named Ye Ming.

Fuyou’s ritual resurrected Kang Hui, but the returned Gonggong became a monstrous being who attacked Divine Lord Meng Zhang and swallowed Fuyou. Watching from Great Xia, Wu Peng warned the Six Witches of Kaiming that Kang Hui’s return was not their achievement and suspected someone had interfered with their plan.

• Fuyou called upon Kang Hui at the boundary between life and death, and a giant black palm struck Divine Lord Meng Zhang from the sky.
• A black-water serpent attacked Meng Zhang, while Kang Hui emerged as a furious monster neither living nor dead and swallowed Fuyou.
• The Six Witches of Kaiming watched Kang Hui fight Meng Zhang, but Wu Peng dismissed their initial delight and said the resurrection was a failed attempt at creating an Elixir of Immortality.
• Wu Peng questioned whether the witches had caused Kang Hui’s resurrection, noting that the epidemic-prevention measures had disrupted their plan to sacrifice the Black Teeth Kingdom.
• Wu Peng considered Li Boyang’s possible interference, then Wu Yang suggested Yu Guo might have resurrected Kang Hui.

Xuansu Shi arrived to confront Yinglong, whose body Yu Guo could control, and her hesitation over whether to see her son or her former chief god left Yinglong feeling rejected. Deception Rabbit intervened and ordered Xuansu Shi back to Hidden Dragon Island, but she declared that the Wind-Wielding Thunder God Xuansu Shi no longer existed.

• Xuansu Shi attacked Yinglong with wind and lightning, and Yinglong recognized her as his mother.
• Wu Zhen urged Yinglong not to test his mother's feelings and asked him to let Yu Guo speak to her.
• Deception Rabbit and Xiluo watched from nearby, and Xiluo warned that Xuansu Shi's mission could hurt Yinglong and Deception Rabbit.
• Deception Rabbit transformed into a black dragon, blocked Xuansu Shi, and ordered her to return to Hidden Dragon Island, saying he would keep Yinglong away from her.
• Xuansu Shi gave Yinglong a final look and declared that the Wind-Wielding Thunder God Xuansu Shi no longer existed.

Yan Xiaojun watched the battles over the Black Teeth Kingdom and agreed to help Hanging Silk Lady locate Lingguzi in exchange for regular supplies of Innate One Qi. He used his newly developed Foreknowledge of the Future to search, as the chapter revealed that the Divine Ability was also meant to help him find the best way to cultivate.

• Yan Xiaojun watched Divine Lord Meng Zhang overpower Kang Hui while the Blackwater Black Serpent and Red Serpent fought a deadly, even battle.
• Hanging Silk Lady emerged and discussed Yan Xiaojun’s Thousand-Mile Eyes, which let him perceive distant scenes and predict possible outcomes.
• Hanging Silk Lady asked Yan Xiaojun to find Lingguzi, who might have gone to the Black Teeth Kingdom, and offered him regular Innate One Qi in return.
• Yan Xiaojun accepted and used his double-pupiled eyes to examine present and possible future scenes.
• Yan Xiaojun recalled that Li Boyang had refined the Divine Ability and said the coming convergence of Yin and Yang and blurring of life and death offered a chance and a trial for them both.

Divine Lord Meng Zhang battled Kang Hui while Shaohao began breaking the barrier sealing the Yin World Nether Spring, hoping to return his people to the living world. As Ye Ming warned that opening the divide would destroy both worlds, a crash sounded from the Yin World, suggesting Shaohao’s plan was already advancing.

• Kang Hui manifested his complete serpent-tailed form and fought Divine Lord Meng Zhang, who damaged Kang Hui with a lightning-charged attack.
• Divine Lord Meng Zhang heard a shattering sound from the depths of the East Sea and turned toward it.
• Shaohao used feathered serpents to locate the Yin World Nether Spring while Ye Ming appeared and warned that forcing open the divide would destroy both worlds.
• Shaohao struck the golden barrier and revealed the enormous Sea-Pacifying Pillar spanning the Yang and Yin Worlds.
• Shaohao told Ye Ming he intended to bring his people back to the living world, and a tremendous crash sounded from the Yin World.

Shaohao used a ghost god capable of attacking from both Yin and Yang to break the golden barrier protecting the [Sea-Calming Divine Treasure], but the feathered serpent god’s emergence was interrupted by the Heaven-Eroding Lord. Their battle over the East Sea caused the sun to flicker between light and darkness, leaving the outcome undecided.

• Shaohao’s ghost gods surrounded Ye Ming, allowing his feathered-serpent servant to attack the golden barrier from both the Yin and Yang Worlds.
• The barrier cracked, but a violent eruption from the seabed brought forth an enormous feathered serpent and forced Shaohao to defend himself.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord appeared above the whirlpool, and his Heavenly Dog Devours the Sun power began to weaken Shaohao by darkening the sun.
• Shaohao and the Heaven-Eroding Lord clashed with dragons formed from sunlight and Yin and Yang Qi, causing their advantage to shift as the sun alternately brightened and dimmed.

From Witch Mountain, Wu Xian and Wu Ji watched Shao battle the Heaven-Eroding Lord and realized both were drawing on the Celestial Person’s path. As the fight reached a deadlock, Wu Ji wondered why the Celestial Person had not intervened.

• Wu Xian and Wu Ji watched the worldwide eclipse caused by the Heaven-Eroding Lord from Witch Mountain.
• Wu Ji used a bronze mirror to view the battle between the Heaven-Eroding Lord and Shao in the East Sea.
• Wu Xian explained that Shao had adopted the Celestial Person’s cultivation method, allowing him to cultivate Solar Essence Qi and reclaim the Sun God’s powers.
• Wu Xian reflected that the battle was challenging established ideas and could inspire powerful beings across the world.
• Wu Ji noticed the battle had reached a deadlock and questioned whether the Celestial Person was deliberately allowing it to escalate.

Shao fused the powers of a ghost god, the Sun God, and the god of the East Sea to reach Qi Dao Perfection, but the Heaven-Eroding Lord revealed his own advance toward returning to emptiness and overwhelmed him with countless incarnations. As Heavenly Dog Devours the Sun plunged the world into darkness, Shao charged into the Sea-Calming Divine Treasure that suppressed the Yin World Nether Spring, shaking the seas and the Nine Provinces.

• Shao used the ocean’s power and explained that he had united the powers of three gods to achieve Qi Dao Perfection.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord said Wu Yi had reached Path of Spirit Perfection and explained that Shao’s realm was only the beginning of the path beyond being.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord manifested countless real Yang God incarnations and drove Shao into a disadvantage.
• Heavenly Dog Devours the Sun reached completion, and darkness spread across the land.
• Shao ignored the Heaven-Eroding Lord’s attacks and rammed into the Sea-Calming Divine Treasure, triggering a shock that shook the ocean and reached across the Nine Provinces.

Shao tilted the Sea-Calming Divine Treasure, unleashing the Yin World Nether Spring and allowing ghosts and gods to cross into the Yang World. Yin Deities pursued the escapees as battles raged across the East Sea, while Li Jingshu and Qinghe watched from Hundred Lands School.

• Shao rammed the Sea-Calming Divine Treasure, tilting it and causing the Yin World Nether Spring to erupt and the Yin and Yang worlds to collide.
• Ghosts and gods crossed into the Yang World and fled, but Yi Ming, Ox-Head, Horse-Face, and other Yin Deities pursued and captured them.
• Battles continued around the East Sea, including Shao's fight with the Heaven-Eroding Lord and the clashes near the Black Teeth Kingdom.
• At Hundred Lands School, Li Jingshu watched the East Sea battle with her Heavenly Eye while Qinghe failed to divine what would happen next.
• Qinghe admired Li Jingshu's Heavenly Eye and wondered whether Li Boyang had created the Divine Ability especially for her.

As the Yin World and Yang World neared collapse, Li Boyang confronted the Netherworld Lord and argued that both worlds had to be understood as one. He used the confrontation to explain the Dao transformation realm and point out a path beyond it, while the battlefields fell silent to listen.

• The Netherworld Lord halted the deaths of the two worlds and challenged Li Boyang to reveal the Heavenly Dao’s power.
• Li Boyang said he intended not only to stop the catastrophe but also to usher in a more prosperous age and reshape the order of both worlds.
• Li Boyang appeared inside the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and told the Netherworld Lord that treating the Yin and Yang Worlds separately had led their paths astray.
• Li Boyang explained the stages of cultivation and said that Great Heavenly Deities had all stopped at the Dao transformation realm, where each embodied the Dao in a different way.
• Kang Hui, Shaohao, the other combatants, and the Netherworld Lord listened as Li Boyang outlined what cultivators needed to advance beyond the Dao transformation realm.

Li Boyang explained the paths from refining spirit and returning to emptiness to becoming a Dao Assimilator, outlining three routes through the Divine Gate and Heavenly Pass and encouraging future cultivators to surpass his theory. When the Netherworld Lord said the doctrine could not break his own bottlenecks, Li Boyang revealed that a higher Transcendence Realm lay beyond it.

• Li Boyang explained that refining spirit and returning to emptiness meant abstracting existence into the Dao and crossing the Heavenly Pass to become a Dao Assimilator.
• Li Boyang described three paths through the Divine Gate and Heavenly Pass: the physical body, the soul, or creating a unique kind of primordial Qi.
• Li Boyang said the paths of essence, Qi, and spirit could be pursued together and form a self-sustaining cycle, and urged future cultivators to discover new paths beyond his doctrine.
• The Netherworld Lord praised Li Boyang’s discourse but said it could not help him overcome his bottlenecks as a Great Heavenly Deity.
• Li Boyang announced that beyond refining spirit and returning to emptiness lay a higher realm he called refining emptiness and uniting with the Dao, the true Transcendence Realm.

Li Boyang explained his theory of proving the Dao and advancing beyond Dao Transformation by tracing the changing worlds back toward the Great Dao. He agreed to the Netherworld Lord’s terms for rebuilding balance between the Yin and Yang Worlds, leaving the Lord free to observe his process and interfere with the Yang World.

• Li Boyang explained that becoming the embodiment of a concept was only a beginning, and that seekers of the Dao could pursue the complete Dao of heaven and earth.
• The Netherworld Lord said that transforming oneself into the Dao was misguided because no single person could keep pace with the world's endless changes, and revealed that ghost gods had arisen because of his actions.
• Li Boyang described proving the Dao as using the differences between the Yin and Yang Worlds to trace their shared origins, a process he called shattering the void and reaching the other shore.
• Li Boyang said he wanted to stop the calamity, create a flourishing age, reshape the world's rules, and test his theory of the Transcendence Realm.
• The Netherworld Lord permitted Li Boyang to interfere with the Yin World's order in exchange for the right to interfere with the Yang World and observe Li Boyang proving the Dao, and Li Boyang agreed.

Li Boyang’s agreement with the Netherworld Lord led to the creation of a Ghost Emperor incarnation, who destroyed the escaped ghosts and gods and dragged Shao into the Yin World. The Netherworld Lord also manifested as the Lord of Mount Tai, subdued Kang Hui, and introduced himself to Divine Lord Meng Zhang as a mountain god.

• The Sea-Calming Divine Treasure emerged from the Yin World Nether Spring and wiped out nearly all the escaped ghosts and gods in the East Sea.
• Li Boyang’s Ghost Emperor incarnation formed from the destroyed ghosts and Netherworld Qi, declared Shao guilty, and pulled him into the Yin World.
• A vast mountain range rose near the Black Teeth Kingdom, and the Netherworld Lord manifested there as a golden-robed deity.
• The Lord of Mount Tai struck Kang Hui with a heavenly edict and buried him beneath the mountains.
• Divine Lord Meng Zhang recognized the newborn deity as the Netherworld Lord, who said he was now the mountain god of Mount Tai.

Li Boyang established Fengdu in the Yin World and proclaimed that all souls and ghost gods would fall under its authority, with hell and reincarnation planned to sort the dead by their karma. The Netherworld Lord and the Lord of Mount Tai recognized the scale of his reforms and anticipated the resistance and complications ahead.

• Li Boyang formed a ghost city at the entrance to the Netherworld Spring, with palaces for the Ghost Gods of the Six Heavens and Shaohao's clansmen serving under him.
• Shaohao learned that the ghost gods under Li Boyang would be tasked with arresting ghosts, and questioned how anyone could govern the dead of the entire Yang World.
• Li Boyang named the new city Fengdu and declared that all souls would come under its jurisdiction, with those bearing heavy karma sent to hell and those with light karma entering reincarnation.
• The Netherworld Lord was astonished by Li Boyang's plans and considered how he would implement hell and reincarnation over the coming millennia.
• The Lord of Mount Tai and the Netherworld Lord warned that reforms across both worlds would face resistance and unpredictable complications.

Li Boyang began reshaping the order of Heaven and Earth with the Eight Trigrams Furnace, while Xiluo guarded him against danger. As the furnace’s power calmed the turbulent Yuan Qi, the Heaven-Eroding Lord revealed that it might even be capable of refining the Netherworld Lord.

• Xiluo returned to Li Boyang after settling matters with Yinglong and Xuansu Shi, and she stayed despite fearing his plan would get him killed.
• Li Boyang dismissed the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and ascended into the sky on a black-and-yellow cloud as Xiluo took her Ominous Deity form and summoned her Yang God to protect him.
• Lu Huaijin, Li Jingshu, and other people with the Heavenly Eye Divine Ability spotted Li Boyang rising through the eclipse-covered sky.
• Li Boyang expanded the Heaven and Earth Ring and revealed the enormous Eight Trigrams Furnace, whose eight trigrams began calming the chaotic Yuan Qi and establishing a new order.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord identified the furnace and its Taiji Diagram, explaining that their power could balance yin and yang and might even forcibly refine the Netherworld Lord.

Li Boyang used the Eight Trigrams Furnace to purify Huoji and gather scattered Soul Jade pieces, while a thought-sensing clone sought another piece from Wu Xian. Wu Xian gave him the Soul Jade Wu Yao had left behind, explaining it was a key to perfecting the Heavenly Dao and attaining the Great Dao, not a means to resurrect her.

• Li Boyang opened the Eight Trigrams Furnace, burned away Huoji's final obsession, and preserved his abilities in a piece of Soul Jade.
• Li Boyang used that Soul Jade as a core to draw scattered Soul Jade pieces from across the Nine Provinces and beyond into the furnace, confronting their holders through incarnations.
• Li Boyang's Heart Lamp Illuminates Myriad Forms clone appeared before Wu Xian and Wu Ji, and he explained that its strength and appearance depended on how others perceived him.
• Wu Xian gave Li Boyang a pure Soul Jade that Wu Yao had left with him, revealing it was a key to perfecting the Heavenly Dao and attaining the Great Dao.

Li Boyang used Wu Yao’s Soul Jade, skeleton, and Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron to attempt her resurrection and establish a new soul-based order linking the Yin and Yang Worlds. As Wu Yao’s body revived, he explained how the Life Soul and Seven Corporeal Souls could enable reincarnation and strengthen future living beings and ghosts.

• Li Boyang transformed an unusual piece of Soul Jade into the Goddess of War’s form, awakening spiritual awareness and drawing Wu Yao’s skeleton from the Mountain God Temple.
• Xiluo realized her sister might be returning, while Li Boyang told the emerging presence that it was not truly Wu Yao, even as he acknowledged his unconventional resurrection experiments.
• Li Boyang placed the Heavenly Mandate Bone Plastron into Wu Yao’s skeleton and used his blood and a ritual to restore her flesh and call her soul back.
• Wu Yao’s soul formed an imprint in both the Yang World and the Yin World, where the Netherworld Lord intervened and observed the new soul-based order taking shape.
• Li Boyang identified Wu Yao’s returning essence as the Life Soul and explained that its union with a body formed the Seven Corporeal Souls and could enable reincarnation.

Li Boyang explained how he designed the Heaven Soul, Earth Soul, and seven Po systems to create a fair reincarnation cycle between the Yin and Yang Worlds. The reborn Wu Yao claimed her identity and confronted the Heaven-Eroding Lord while Li Boyang prepared to establish the system across both worlds.

• Li Boyang explained that the Heaven Soul preserved the Life Soul and the seven Po helped frail souls grow enough to reincarnate.
• He explained that the Earth Soul guided souls to the Netherworld and could help Yin Deities track powerful souls.
• The reborn Wu Yao asked whether she was truly Wu Yao, and Li Boyang said she could be Wu Yao to Xiluo and the Heaven-Eroding Lord, though she was herself before him.
• Wu Yao declared herself the one and only Wu Yao and the third shaman-priest of the Houtu Clan, then went to face the approaching Heaven-Eroding Lord.
• Li Boyang focused on the Eight Trigrams Furnace and used Black and Yellow Qi to manifest the Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, supporting and balancing the Yin and Yang Worlds.

Li Boyang refined the Jade Disc of Creation and used it to reveal the branching futures and the fixed river of history, attaining the Dao of Time. When Heavenly Emperor Hao Jun tried to cross from the past into the present, the Netherworld Lord stopped him, and Li Boyang recognized that time would let the powerful reshape both past and future.

• Li Boyang took the refined Jade Disc of Creation from the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and its power nearly destabilized his Heaven and Earth Black and Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.
• The Pagoda displayed countless possible futures, including outcomes shaped by the Netherworld Lord and Li Boyang, while Ye Ming glimpsed a rare future in which she became a Great Heavenly Deity.
• Li Boyang's vision traced history backward to the era of Heavenly Emperor Hao Jun, who tried to cross the river of time and escape his destined death.
• The Netherworld Lord intervened in the past and stopped Hao Jun from descending into the present.
• Li Boyang concluded that the Jade Disc had made time a real Dao and that the powerful would seek to rewrite their origins and ends; he alone had leaped beyond lifespan and death.

Li Boyang used the Jade Disc of Creation to impose the Three Hun and Seven Po System across the future and reshape the river of time. He warned the Netherworld Lord that powerful beings might trace their origins farther and farther back, and the chapter ended with the Netherworld Lord asking what Li Boyang planned to do next.

• The Netherworld Lord gained two sets of memories after history split into alternate tributaries and studied the Jade Disc of Creation.
• Li Boyang used the Jade Disc of Creation to suppress future beings who resisted his intervention in time.
• Li Boyang established the Three Hun and Seven Po System across countless possible futures, giving the timelines a unified direction.
• Li Boyang explained that transcendent beings might rewrite their origins to become older and stronger, eventually reaching the world's creation.
• The Netherworld Lord realized Li Boyang had another plan and asked what he intended to do next.

Li Boyang relinquished the Jade Disc of Creation and bound interference with the river of time to consequences, while opening the Heavenly Dao to all beings. After the temporal upheaval ended, Red Serpent and Divine Lord Meng Zhang reflected on the futures they had witnessed, and Meng Zhang reassured him that those futures were only possibilities.

• Li Boyang sent the Jade Discs of Creation across timelines to merge with the river of time, establishing backlash for those who interfered with it and favor for those who sustained it.
• Li Boyang declared that the Heavenly Dao belonged to all beings and that anyone could attain the Dao, then used Heavenly Emperor Hao Jun's failed resurrection as an example of temporal backlash.
• Heavenly Emperor Hao Jun abandoned his attempt to resurrect in the future but remained confident he could become the first Ancient One and master the Jade Disc of Creation.
• Li Boyang relinquished his authority over time, making it accessible to all beings, and invited Red Serpent to become the first Ancient One and meet him at the end of the river of time.
• Divine Lord Meng Zhang and Red Serpent discussed the futures they had seen, including Red Serpent's possible life as Torch Dragon, and Meng Zhang told him their present world had an infinitely bright future.

The chapter explained how Fengdu’s screening, Nine Prisons and Nine Springs, and reincarnation system processed the dead. It ended with souls entering the Six Paths of Reincarnation and established reunifying the Seven Corporeal Souls as an orthodox route to manifesting a Primordial Spirit.

• The Great Emperor of Fengdu granted innocent ghosts and ghost gods an annual return to the Yang World through the Ghost Gate Pass on Mount Tai.
• Ghosts were screened according to their obsessions, karma, and sins, with those who had lingering attachments remaining in Fengdu and others proceeding onward.
• The Great Emperor of Fengdu established the Nine Prisons at the nine nodes of the River of Forgetfulness to punish and cleanse different kinds of souls.
• Ghosts whose obsessions had faded passed through the red spider lily grove, crossed the Bridge of Helplessness, and drank the woman’s soup before reaching reincarnation.
• Pure souls entered the Six Paths of Reincarnation, where the Heaven Soul guided them into suitable bodies and joined them with flesh to form the Seven Corporeal Souls.
• The chapter established that reunifying the Seven Corporeal Souls to manifest the Life Soul would become an orthodox path to cultivating a Primordial Spirit.

On the Ghost Festival, Ye Ming escorted the Heaven-Eroding Lord to the Bridge of Helplessness, where he planned to visit Meng Po. He presented a Bagua Compass and its manual, but Ye Ming demanded both compasses as compensation for her lost vacation.

• Ye Ming met the Heaven-Eroding Lord on the banks of the River of Forgetfulness while serving as White Impermanence.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord and Ye Ming discussed the Great Emperor of Fengdu’s divine appointments and Ye Ming’s choice to serve as an Impermanence official.
• Ye Ming asked what gift the Heaven-Eroding Lord had brought Meng Po as they approached the Bridge of Helplessness.
• The Heaven-Eroding Lord showed Ye Ming a Bagua Compass and explained its uses for divination and setting formations.
• Ye Ming demanded that the Heaven-Eroding Lord give her both compasses as compensation for her lost vacation.

Li Boyang told Chen Yun that Flying Sky Stockade planned to mass-produce gliding wings using cloud silk brocade, making individual flight increasingly accessible across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. He predicted the region would need flight regulations and safety standards, while expressing greater confidence in the aerial base stations Wu Zhen was developing with Big Girl.

• Chen Yun asked Li Boyang whether the textile mill should expand production of cloud silk brocade because Flying Sky Stockade planned to buy it in bulk.
• Li Boyang explained that Wu Zhen had achieved preliminary mass production of gliding wings and had improved their design so their membrane wings could extend and retract.
• Chen Yun asked whether the improved gliding wings could now be widely distributed, and Li Boyang explained how wind spells could make them usable for flight.
• Li Boyang said the Hundred Lands Mountain Range would eventually need flight regulations and safety standards because gliding wings could become widely available and suited the region's difficult terrain.
• Li Boyang said he had greater confidence in the aerial base stations Wu Zhen was developing with Big Girl.

Li Jingshu and Wu Zhen inspected a biologically constructed sky base station designed to extend Voice Transmission Talisman signals across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. When Li Jingshu questioned how Wu Zhen had developed its biotechnology, Wu Zhen revealed that Snake Bone, also known as Lingguzi, had helped her.

• Li Jingshu had proposed using sky base stations to relay Voice Transmission Talisman signals across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Li Jingshu examined Wu Zhen’s enormous, flesh-like station and learned it was built to withstand near-Earth orbit’s cold and low oxygen.
• Wu Zhen said the stations could provide region-wide signal coverage and could be fitted with weapons for defense.
• Li Jingshu questioned whether Wu Zhen had developed the biotechnology herself, and Wu Zhen denied involving Witch Mountain.
• Wu Zhen revealed that Snake Bone, also known as Lingguzi, had helped solve the station’s orbital environmental problems.