Recaps

Over ten years, Lü Yan mastered the cultivation arts and discovered that sword cultivation suited him best, using the sword to encompass countless techniques and Dao Paths. When he wondered whether his path had been arranged by the Dao Ancestor, Xiluo advised him to seek the answer at Purple Firmament Palace once he became a Dao Proving One.

• Lü Yan completed Foundation Establishment in three years, but the school forbade teaching him the Perception Method until his body had fully developed.
• Lü Yan spent ten years studying the hundred arts of cultivation, attracting the attention of the Three Realms and prompting Xiluo to deter would-be masters.
• Lü Yan found his path in sword cultivation and used the sword to perform a vast range of law techniques and divine abilities.
• Lü Yan wondered whether his sword path and rapid growth had been arranged by the Dao Ancestor.
• Xiluo told Lü Yan that he could ask the Dao Ancestor at Purple Firmament Palace after becoming a Dao Proving One, explaining that there the Dao Ancestor would speak without reserve.

Li Boyang explained that he had delayed Lü Yan’s cultivation to build his knowledge and character, while Xiluo admitted she had tormented him as Li Boyang’s stand-in. They then saw signs of trouble involving Zhuang Zhou in the Heavenly Realm, where Śakra’s howl shook the Nine Heavens and a vortex of Nectar of Immortality appeared.

• Xiluo questioned Li Boyang about why he had restricted Lü Yan’s practice of the Perception Method, and Li Boyang said the past fifteen years had been meant to cultivate Lü Yan’s character and knowledge.
• Xiluo recalled how Lü Yan had relied on the Fifth Generation · Bio-Armor Cells for basic cultivation, then studied and improved his Breathing Method.
• Xiluo revealed that she had treated Lü Yan as Li Boyang’s stand-in, and Li Boyang remarked on Lü Yan’s misfortune.
• Li Boyang showed Xiluo an image of Good View City in the Heavenly Realm after sensing a problem on Zhuang Zhou’s end.
• Śakra · Indra howled and shook the Nine Heavens as Li Xi and Subhūti watched, and a milky-white vortex appeared at the center of the earth.

Lü Yan visited Hanzhi at the almshouse where he had first put his studies into practice, explaining that he would soon eat a Peach of Immortality. Watching them from Flying Sky Stockade, Yunxiao noticed Hanzhi’s affection for him and said the Red Matchmaker Star had stirred.

• Lü Yan arrived at the almshouse and reunited with Hanzhi, who remembered him as the only volunteer who had contributed both money and effort.
• Lü Yan told Hanzhi he had come to commemorate the place before his upcoming Peach of Immortality ceremony, and she welcomed him inside.
• Yunxiao watched Lü Yan and Hanzhi from the main peak while Qingji loaded valuable goods nearby.
• Qiongxiao and Bixiao explained that Hanzhi had come to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range before Yunxiao and chosen to stay.
• Yunxiao said Hanzhi seemed to have taken a fancy to Lü Yan and pointed out that the Red Matchmaker Star had stirred.

Lü Yan helped Hanzhi prepare dinner at her orphanage and learned that its children were outsiders whom the Mountain Folk’s public welfare systems would not support. Hanzhi explained that Nü E had helped establish the orphanage, while Lü Yan struggled to reconcile the children’s plight with the Dao Ancestor’s ideals.

• Lü Yan helped Hanzhi prepare and serve a lavish dinner to the orphanage’s children, quickly earning their affection.
• Lü Yan asked why Hanzhi managed the orphanage alone, and Hanzhi explained that the Inexhaustible Treasury and charitable estates served their own communities.
• Hanzhi told Lü Yan that the children were outsiders who had wandered into the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and lacked recognized status there.
• Hanzhi revealed that Nü E knew about the children and had brought them to the orphanage, but the communal funds could not support them.
• Lü Yan objected that this was not the world the Dao Ancestor wanted, and Hanzhi explained that the Mountain Range was still far better than the outside world.

Lü Yan confronted Ao Mo, a deformed boy who resented the Mountain Folk for their privileged lives, and challenged him to stop venting and take action. Ao Mo accepted the challenge but left with a newly resolute gaze, leaving Lü Yan uneasy as his sword trembled.

• Ao Mo revealed that he was born with his unusual appearance and rejected Lü Yan’s assumption that he belonged to the Dragon Race.
• Ao Mo accused Lü Yan of being naive and privileged, condemning the Mountain Folk for enjoying the Dao Ancestor’s protection while ignoring others’ suffering.
• Lü Yan admitted his good fortune but argued that Ao Mo’s envy was no more useful than his own earlier sorrow, and pointed out that he and Hanzhi were trying to make a difference.
• Lü Yan urged Ao Mo to look toward the future, while acknowledging that he needed to understand the world’s harsh realities better.
• Ao Mo admitted that venting was meaningless and resolved to take concrete action before walking away, as Lü Yan’s treasured sword began to tremble.

Lü Yan learned that Ao Mo rejected kindness because of his painful past and apologized to Hanzhi for asking about it. Alone, Ao Mo remembered his mother’s death and his father’s cowardice, leaving him convinced that he had survived as a coward just like Ao Fei.

• Lü Yan asked Hanzhi why Ao Mo had confronted him, and she explained that Ao Mo instinctively rejected concern because of his background.
• Hanzhi refused to discuss Ao Mo’s past merely to satisfy Lü Yan’s curiosity, and Lü Yan apologized for overstepping.
• Ao Mo overheard their exchange and briefly smiled, then worried that Lü Yan was unsuitable for Hanzhi.
• Ao Mo recalled his mother’s love for Ao Fei and how she returned to Black Water Pool to save him during the eldest prince’s attack.
• Ao Mo remembered escaping alone through an underground waterway, cutting off his dragon tail, and realizing he resembled the father he despised.

Lü Yan asked Nüshi why the timid South Sea Dragon Race had destroyed the nine-headed serpent guarding Black Water Pool. Nüshi revealed that the dragons had sought the protection of the South Sea Dragon Girl, Sagara, and began explaining how they won her favor.

• Nüshi questioned why Lü Yan had come to Hundred Lands University instead of preparing for his longevity ceremony and Peach of Immortality.
• Lü Yan admitted he wanted to practice the Perception Method early, then asked Nüshi about the South Sea Dragon Race's attack on the nine-headed serpent at Black Water Pool.
• Nüshi explained that the South Sea Dragon Race was weak and lacked a powerful protector, unlike the other Dragon Races of the Four Seas.
• Nüshi revealed that the dragons had planned to attach themselves to Sagara, the South Sea Dragon Girl, who held the Mutton-Fat Jade Purifying Vase.
• Nüshi said that because Sagara was immature and childlike, the dragons could please her by finding her a playmate of a suitable age.

Nüshi told Lü Yan how Ao Fei fled the South Sea Dragon Race and how his wife, the mistress of Black Water Pool, was killed for sheltering him. After learning she may have left a hidden child, Lü Yan revealed that his sword had warned him about danger and explained his Azure Blade Divination of Heaven.

• Lü Yan learned that Ao Fei had been chosen as a playmate for the South Sea Dragon Race’s young dragon maiden, but fled after their friendship grew and he could no longer bear the arrangement.
• Nüshi explained that Ao Fei’s wife, the nine-headed serpent mistress of Black Water Pool, was killed by the South Sea Dragon Race, which wanted to erase the disgrace of his existence.
• Nüshi said the serpent was descended from Jiuying, had likely left a child, and might have been close to Dao Proving before her death.
• Nüshi told Lü Yan that a head of Xiangliu was kept on Bronze Island and asked what he had discovered about the serpent’s offspring.
• Lü Yan said his sword had warned him and described his Method of Sword Divination, which he called Azure Blade Divination of Heaven.

Lü Yan practiced the Perception Method by following his own path, quickly manifesting a primordial spirit and advancing into the Divine Realm of Refining Qi into Spirit Transformation. He then began gathering mixed-origin Yuan Qi and drawing in the sun’s pure yang power, starting his Pure Yang Yuan Qi perception method.

• Nüshi agreed to guard Lü Yan as he practiced the Perception Method, and Lü Yan declined her offer to help him commune with the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper.
• Lü Yan entered meditation and rapidly drew Yuan Qi to the Qi Gathering Platform, astonishing Nüshi and the other students.
• Lü Yan gathered his Life Primordial Qi through his body and lit the locations of his seven corporeal souls, manifesting a primordial spirit in his sea of consciousness.
• Lü Yan’s Divine Ability, Riding the Void and Controlling the Wind, emerged as his body completed its transformation into the Divine Realm of Refining Qi into Spirit Transformation.
• Lü Yan gathered mixed-origin Yuan Qi and used his Heavenly Eye to draw the sun’s pure yang power into it, beginning his Pure Yang Yuan Qi perception and advancement method.

Lü Yan refined True Yang Qi using his Fifth Generation Bio-Armor Cells and awakened the Pure Yang Divine Ability, strengthening his Primordial Spirit into a Yin Deity. Just as the cultivation appeared to end, the Bio-Armor Cells activated another hidden program and drew Star Power from a celestial palace.

• Lü Yan endured the True Yang Qi as Nüshi warned him not to push beyond his limits.
• Lü Yan activated his Fifth Generation Bio-Armor Cells to adapt to the True Yang Qi and guide it safely through his meridians.
• Lü Yan awakened the Pure Yang Divine Ability, first manifesting as True Solar Fire, and formed a cycle that combined True Yang Qi with Life Primordial Qi.
• Lü Yan's Primordial Spirit strengthened and began transforming into a Yin Deity that was unafraid of sunlight and could generate Yuan Qi.
• Lü Yan activated the Bio-Armor Cells again, prompting a celestial palace to send Star Power toward the Qi Gathering Platform.

Lü Yan bypassed the Star God Network’s restrictions to draw on Gouchen Heavenly Palace’s Star Power and used it to perform a powerful sword technique. His Great Luo perspective showed him a deformed dragon-serpent causing a flood in Yunmeng Marsh, and the creature noticed his gaze.

• Nüshi realized Lü Yan had activated Star Power Empowerment and warned Gouchen that an underage user had borrowed Gouchen Heavenly Palace’s power.
• Gouchen discovered that Lü Yan’s underage profile claimed he was eighteen thousand years old, revealing a loophole in the permission checks.
• Lü Yan used his Pure Yang Divine Ability to channel Star Power into his sword, producing eight blades that formed an Eight Trigrams formation and cast Azure Blade Divination of Heaven.
• Lü Yan’s perspective crossed time, and he saw a dragon-serpent travel downstream through Yunmeng Marsh, unleashing destructive winds and waves.
• The dragon-serpent turned toward Lü Yan’s gaze and revealed its deformed form, with only half of a single horn.

Ao Mo left the charitable home in Flying Sky Stockade and revealed his monstrous dragon-and-snake form to Hanzhi, who comforted him and promised that everyone would await his return. As he swam downstream, Yunxiao sensed that his growing power was stirring the earth veins and water veins.

• Ao Mo entered the stream and revealed his fearsome true appearance to Hanzhi.
• Hanzhi joined Ao Mo in the water, reassured him, and told him not to take Lü Yan's words to heart.
• Ao Mo said he would return, then swam downstream as Hanzhi watched him leave.
• Yunxiao appeared behind Hanzhi, and Qiongxiao and Bixiao joined them in teasing her.
• Yunxiao watched Ao Mo's departure and sensed that his passage was stirring the earth veins, surging the water veins, and spreading water Qi.

Qinghe and Wuluo investigated a spreading disturbance in the Earth Veins and water veins across the Hundred Lands Mountain Range. The disturbance was moving south along a river near Yunmeng Marsh, and its cause remained unknown.

• Alarms sounded at the Supreme Purity Heavenly Palace as the mountain range’s Earth Veins and water veins grew abnormally active.
• Qinghe arrived at the main control center and asked Wuluo what was causing the disturbance.
• Wuluo reported that the affected nodes were continuing to spread and said an Innate Deity’s birth was one possible cause.
• Wuluo connected the disturbed nodes on the screen and showed that the disturbance was moving south along the main river channel near Yunmeng Marsh.

Wuluo traced the spreading anomalies through the Hundred Lands Mountain Range and concluded that they were part of an unusual Divine Ascension Ritual heading toward the South Sea and beyond the Mystic Garden Barrier. She connected the ritual to the Heavenly Emperor’s Hidden Capital in Kunlun, but the scale of the activity left her uncertain about its purpose.

• Qinghe asked whether an Innate Deity could move before birth, and Wuluo said the anomalies’ deliberate route made that explanation unlikely.
• Wuluo mapped the disturbances along the mountain range’s waterways, showing that they avoided Yunmeng Marsh and led toward the South Sea.
• Qinghe reacted gravely to the destination, recalling that she had survived the South Sea upheaval that destroyed her tribe.
• Wuluo explained that the phenomenon aimed to leave the Mystic Garden Barrier and identified it as an unconventional Divine Ascension Ritual.
• Wuluo described the ritual preserved in the Heavenly Emperor’s Hidden Capital, which had once transformed selected living beings into deities.
• Qinghe realized a ritual was underway in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range, while Wuluo questioned why it was activating such an immense network of earth veins and water veins.

Lü Yan entered Bronze Island with a decree from Gouchen and reached the Human Head Tree, where he met the White Bone Bodhisattva, Lingguzi, and the serpent Xiang Yao. Lingguzi said Lü Yan had come to ask about the torrential rain and used Xiang Yao’s favor to ensure he answered honestly.

• Lü Yan found Hanging Silk Lady guarding Bronze Island’s core and presented Gouchen’s decree to gain passage.
• Hanging Silk Lady verified the decree, opened the way, and let Lü Yan proceed through the core area.
• Lü Yan reached the Human Head Tree and met Lingguzi, the White Bone Bodhisattva.
• Xiang Yao lowered his head from the tree and acknowledged that Lü Yan had completed part of his fate configuration, leaving him a favor.
• Lingguzi told Xiang Yao that Lü Yan wanted to learn about the torrential rain and spent Xiang Yao’s favor to secure honest answers.

Lü Yan questioned Xiang Yao about the Nine-Headed Serpent stirring up the South Sea and the relentless rain, learning that the answers involved a Divine Ascension Ritual. Xiang Yao traced the serpents’ origins to the first Witch King and revealed Jiugui’s fixation on finding her adoptive father in others.

• Xiang Yao agreed to answer Lü Yan’s questions honestly until sunset, while Lingguzi stayed to listen.
• Lü Yan asked Xiang Yao about the Nine-Headed Serpent he had seen in a vision and its connection to the rain.
• Xiang Yao identified the serpent as Jiugui’s child with Ao Fei and called him an accursed offspring whose Divine Ascension Ritual would bring disaster.
• Xiang Yao explained that the first Witch King hatched and raised the eggs that became Xiangliu and Jiugui, who were siblings with very different temperaments.
• Xiang Yao said Jiugui had searched for her deceased adoptive father in others and was therefore unsurprisingly drawn to Ao Fei.

Lü Yan questioned Xiang Yao about Ao Fei’s torrential rains and learned that they heralded a dangerous Water Traveling Dragon Transformation ritual. Xiang Yao explained why the ritual required Great Xia’s unique terrain, leaving Lü Yan to consider the risks Ao Fei faced in the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

• Lü Yan challenged Xiang Yao to explain how he knew about Ao Fei, and Xiang Yao refused to reveal his source.
• Lü Yan reasoned that Xiangliu’s other surviving heads might be connected to Jiugui’s Black Water Pool, and Xiang Yao recognized his suspicion.
• Xiang Yao explained that he and Jiugui inherited the Nine Transformations in One Day ability and learned the Water Traveling Dragon Transformation ritual from their father.
• Xiang Yao said Ao Fei’s torrential rains were a precursor to the ritual and explained that it required powerful, balanced water and earth veins found only in Great Xia.
• Xiang Yao warned that the Hundred Lands Mountain Range remained too small and dangerous to safely support Ao Fei’s transformation.

Ao Mo’s attempt to complete the Water Traveling Dragon Transformation brought him to the southern sluice gate, where Chi Fou confronted him over the damage his torrential rains had caused. Driven toward Qi Deviation by his desire for revenge, Ao Mo accepted Mahoraga’s influence and transformed into an accursed dragon.

• A golden-armored divine statue stopped the swollen river at the southern sluice gate as Ao Mo emerged with a flood dragon’s head and a body covered in wounds.
• Ao Mo asked Chi Fou to let him pass, but she accused him of repaying the Flying Sky Stockade’s kindness with harm to the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.
• Chi Fou recognized that Ao Mo’s incomplete Divine Ascension Ritual had brought him close to Qi Deviation, and Ao Mo declared that he did not care if he became a demon so long as he gained power for revenge.
• Mahoraga emerged from the sea of living beings’ subconscious minds and began merging with Ao Mo as his horns changed and the gathered Primordial Qi rushed into him.
• Ao Mo transformed into an accursed dragon, drew moisture from heaven and earth, and unleashed torrential rain.

Chi Fou confronted Ao Mo as his transformation drove him toward madness, while Skanda’s golden-armored form struck him down. Ao Mo survived by shedding his body and reemerged stronger, and Qinghe revealed that Skanda was a prototype Vajra Warrior as the fight continued.

• Chi Fou reflected that Mahoraga’s enticement and Ao Mo’s growing power had warped his reason and temperament, and she suspected Jiugui’s connection to him.
• Ao Mo charged Chi Fou, but Skanda struck him with a demon-subduing pestle and stomped him into the river.
• Ao Mo’s mangled body proved to be an empty shed shell, and he attacked Skanda again in a smaller, stronger form after using his Nine Transformations in One Day.
• Qinghe explained to Wuluo that Ao Mo could adapt to attacks unless killed in one blow, while Skanda was an engineering prototype called a Vajra Warrior.
• Wuluo recognized Chi Fou as the legendary Arbiter of Fate Goddess and asked why she was fighting; Qinghe replied that Chi Fou disliked fighting and that Wuluo should keep watching.

Chi Fou used Skanda to force Ao Mo to expend his final transformation, but let him escape rather than take his life. She then stopped the torrential rain and prepared to use the River Chart and Luo River Book to protect the land and its living beings.

• Chi Fou analyzed the Star God Network's data and concluded Ao Mo could transform only once more that day.
• Chi Fou ordered Skanda to lift the restrictions on his Law Seals and attack Ao Mo without holding back.
• Skanda crushed Ao Mo's neck until Ao Mo used his third transformation and escaped beneath the river, leaving behind his snakeskin.
• Chi Fou chose not to pursue Ao Mo because she hated taking life and believed in protecting the possibilities of living beings.
• Chi Fou stopped the rain, dispersed the clouds, and unfurled the River Chart and Luo River Book.

Lü Yan found Chi Fou restoring Skanda's water veins and learned that Ao Mo had become vastly more powerful through the Water Traveling Dragon Transformation. After Skanda brought Chi Fou back to Li Jingshu, she reflected that Lü Yan and Non-Crying Child were fundamentally different.

• Lü Yan recognized the River Chart and Luo River Book and asked Chi Fou where Ao Mo had gone.
• Chi Fou explained that Ao Mo had grown stronger after battles, merged with the Mahoraga, and was nearing Dragon Transformation.
• Chi Fou told Lü Yan that Ao Mo had headed toward the South Sea and warned that even Skanda might struggle to kill him.
• Skanda used the Power of Spiritual Travel to take Chi Fou to Li Household Village, where Li Jingshu asked whether the Vajra Warrior had proved useful.
• Chi Fou praised Skanda's abilities, then told Li Jingshu that Lü Yan was not like Non-Crying Child and would never become another version of him.

A vast Ocean of Milk made of Nectar of Immortality formed in Jade Capital Heaven, drawing the Eight Legions and Śakra’s forces into a spreading battle. Minghe opened a passage to the Netherworld beneath the ocean, contaminating the Nectar and turning it deadly to all but the Asuras and Yakshas.

• Li Boyang, Xiluo, Jinjiao, Yinjiao, and Wangshu watched the Heavenly Realm through the Haotian Mirror as an Ocean of Milk took shape in Jade Capital Heaven.
• Śakra sent his Garudas to investigate the Nectar of Immortality, and Lu Ya led them in fighting the Naga and Mahoragas as the conflict spread.
• Śakra brought his Devas into the growing battle after Kinnaras and Gandharvas joined the fighting around the Ocean of Milk.
• Deadly poison erupted from the ocean’s whirlpools, killing beings who entered the contaminated Nectar and halting the fighting.
• Minghe led the Asuras and Yakshas through the whirlpools, driving the other forces away from the Ocean of Milk.
• Śakra discovered that Minghe had opened a passage between the Heavenly Realm and the Netherworld, making the contaminated Nectar lethal to all but the Asuras and Yakshas.

Minghe and Śakra’s battle escalated into a Great Luo battlefield that engulfed the Thirty-Three Heavens and threatened to spread into the Yin World and mortal world. As Lu Ya watched, he noticed a Mahoraga growing stronger by consuming the poisoned Ocean of Milk and rushed to kill him.

• Śakra led the Devas and Garudas against Minghe, while the Eight Legions clashed around them in the Ocean of Milk.
• Minghe used Avici and Yuan Tu, manifestations of his Dao of Slaughter, to keep Śakra locked in a prolonged stalemate while pursuing a foothold in Jade Capital Heaven.
• The Great Luo battle’s distortions of space and time swept up the Eight Legions and spread from Yama Heaven through nearly all of the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Dao Proving Ones from other times and spaces intervened, worsening the chaos until it began spreading toward the Yin World and the mortal world.
• Lu Ya spotted a Mahoraga defeating three Garudas and growing stronger by consuming poisoned Nectar of Immortality.
• Lu Ya sensed a crisis and swooped toward the Mahoraga, intending to kill him before he became immune to the Garudas’ attacks.

Lu Ya pursued the Mahoraga through the battlefield, but Chi escaped into the Ocean of Milk, whose depths gave birth to the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures. The tree revealed fruit that served as gateways to distant worlds, and the Mahoraga entered the fruit showing Ao Mo confronting Chiru at the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

• Chi shed his body with Snake Slough and split into nine, fleeing Lu Ya while the Garudas failed to stop him.
• Lu Ya caught and crushed nine of Chi's incarnations, then realized the real Mahoraga had escaped again.
• The Ocean of Milk began to boil, and the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures grew from its depths, drawing astonishment from the assembled fighters.
• The tree's fruit displayed scenes throughout the Three Realms and beyond, while Minghe watched it with barely concealed greed.
• The Mahoraga emerged from the Ocean of Milk and plunged into the fruit showing Ao Mo confronting Chiru at the Hundred Lands Mountain Range.

Subhūti and Li Xi examined the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures, whose fruits revealed places people yearned for, and Subhūti connected it to Mahākāśyapa’s plans. Subhūti realized Mahākāśyapa may have used his own will to unify all beings’ subconscious minds through Amala Consciousness, and condemned him as a madman.

• Subhūti and Li Xi observed that the Wondrous Tree of Seven Treasures showed places people longed for and could not be fully perceived, even by Li Xi’s Heavenly Eye.
• Subhūti concluded that Mahākāśyapa had left behind the tree and had deliberately died to alter his origins and the future of Amitabha Buddha’s reincarnation.
• The chapter explained how Buddhist thought developed the five consciousnesses, mental consciousness, Manas Consciousness, and Alaya Consciousness before Mahākāśyapa proposed Amala Consciousness as a pure source of Buddha-nature.
• Subhūti questioned whether Mahākāśyapa had truly opened Amala Consciousness and realized he might have used his own self-awareness to dominate the subconscious minds of all living beings.
• Subhūti cursed Mahākāśyapa, recognizing that the tree’s projections of people’s yearnings aligned with Mahākāśyapa’s plan to unify their minds.