Recaps

Baihu confronted Dongfang Yueming in a hotel suite and tested him with increasingly powerful attacks, only to discover that he vastly outmatched her. Hong Gui arrived and found Dongfang Yueming pinning Baihu against a column, leaving her jealous as Baihu fled.

• Baihu searched the suite for Dongfang Yueming and accused him of being the assassin who killed Judge.
• Baihu attacked Dongfang Yueming with her White Tiger palm strike and Baihu Heaven-Rending Slash, but he effortlessly destroyed both attacks.
• Baihu realized Dongfang Yueming had reached the True Power Realm and tried to escape, but he caught her and pinned her against a column.
• Hong Gui entered the suite and saw Dongfang Yueming holding Baihu in a suggestive position.
• Baihu broke free, warned Dongfang Yueming she would remember the score, and escaped through the damaged window.
• Hong Gui confronted Dongfang Yueming with jealousy, asking whether he wanted to pursue one of the Night Watchers' tigresses.

Dongfang Yueming reassured Hong Gui after overpowering Baihu, then used his system to fuse several dual cultivation techniques into a perfected heaven-grade art. He planned to use its power to raise Hong Gui’s cultivation and carried her to bed to begin cultivating.

• Dongfang Yueming pulled Hong Gui into his arms and explained that Baihu had started the fight, while Hong Gui wondered at his overwhelming strength.
• Hong Gui brought out the profound-grade Yin-Yang Joyous Union Art and downloaded six yellow-grade dual cultivation techniques for Dongfang Yueming.
• Dongfang Yueming used his system to perfect the seven techniques and fuse them into the heaven-grade Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Good Fortune Art.
• Dongfang Yueming comprehended Good Fortune Replenishment, which let him convert his True Power into cultivation for a partner without permanently losing his own reserves.
• Dongfang Yueming asked Hong Gui about her Meridian Opening Eighth Level cultivation, then carried her to the bed to begin dual cultivation.

Hong Gui used Dongfang Yueming’s Good Fortune Replenishment secret art during their night together and surged to Meridian Opening Upper-Tier Perfection. She returned to the Li Family estate and demanded its inherited Profound Grade True Power technique for herself.

• Hong Gui broke through to Meridian Opening Ninth Level as Dongfang Yueming’s True Power refined her cultivation.
• Hong Gui urged Dongfang Yueming to continue, and their night together brought her to Meridian Opening Upper-Tier Perfection with Inner Qi and Outer Gang Qi.
• Li Canghai learned that Hong Gui had escaped her room after guards discovered a decoy formation.
• Hong Gui returned to the Li Family estate and demanded the family-inherited Profound Grade True Power technique.
• Li Canghai began to refuse, still believing Hong Gui was only at Meridian Opening Eighth Level.

Hong Gui revealed her flawless breakthrough to Meridian Opening Perfection, obtained the Li Family’s Ziwei True Power Art, and learned that her father would not let her access the Sea of Consciousness art. Meanwhile, Long Batian moved to seize the spirit mine market as a deacon discovered that the Wu Family Variants had died activating a sinister sacrificial formation.

• Hong Gui demonstrated her breakthrough to Meridian Opening Perfection, convinced Li Canghai she had suffered no damage, and received the Li Family’s mystic-grade Ziwei True Power Art.
• Hong Gui asked Li Canghai to show her the Sea of Consciousness art, but he refused and warned her of its dangers.
• Dongfang Yueming planned to visit the Li Family’s forbidden area that night to inspect the Sea of Consciousness Realm art.
• Long Batian and the Long Family forced their way into the spirit mine market, claiming they would search it for Pan Family fugitives and prohibited goods.
• A Chu Family deacon found the Wu Family Variants dead and desiccated around a formation drawn in their blood, then realized they had sacrificed themselves to activate a ritual.

A sacrifice by the Wu Family’s xenos opened a breach in the Boundary, allowing a demonic beast tide to attack the Demon Capital. As Hong Gui prepared to warn Dongfang Yueming, a terrifying spiritual storm erupted from the Li Family manor’s forbidden back mountain.

• A crack opened in the Boundary, and demonized Ferocious Beasts poured through as the defense forces tried to hold them back.
• An S-class disaster warning sounded throughout the Demon Capital, alarming its martial artists and civilians.
• Li Canghai learned that the Wu Family’s xenos had sacrificed themselves and that the Boundary had been breached.
• Li Canghai told Hong Gui to flee with him to an underground shelter, but she thought of warning Dongfang Yueming.
• A vast spiritual storm erupted from the Li Family manor’s forbidden back mountain, revealing the pressure of the Sea of Consciousness Realm.

As a Boundary crisis erupted over the Demon Capital, Dongfang Yueming went to the Li Family estate to exploit the ancestor’s absence and steal techniques from his secret chamber. He acquired a basic Sea of Consciousness art and two Soul Techniques, then set out to enter a new realm of mental power.

• The Li, Chu, and Tang ancestors discovered that their sacrifice had anchored coordinates to a weak point in the Boundary, while Long Batian condemned them for endangering the Demon Capital.
• The Sun Grade investigator ordered the three ancestors to help seal the Boundary gap and assigned Long Batian’s delegation to evacuate civilians and maintain order.
• Dongfang Yueming sensed the growing danger and rushed to the Li Family estate, where Hong Gui told him the ancestor had left.
• Dongfang Yueming slipped past the forbidden grounds’ defenses and found three jade slips in the Li Family ancestor’s secret chamber.
• Dongfang Yueming learned the Spirit-Concentrating Art, Spirit-Shocking Spike, and Mental Barrier, then left to pursue the materialization of mental power.

Dongfang Yueming opened his Sea of Consciousness, perfected two soul techniques, and sensed a dangerous disturbance at the Boundary. With the Demon Capital’s defenses focused elsewhere, he stole cultivation methods and soul techniques from the Chu and Tang families, leaving with three Sea of Consciousness methods and six soul techniques.

• Dongfang Yueming spent system points to advance his Spirit-Concentrating Art to Sea of Consciousness Perfection and gained the ability to project his Divine Sense.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected Spirit-Shocking Spike and Mental Barrier, comprehending the soul techniques Formless Soul Annihilation and Wall of Sighs.
• Dongfang Yueming sensed a corrupting demonic aura from the Boundary and suspected its defensive line had suffered a serious failure.
• Dongfang Yueming used The Ends of the Earth Are Within Reach to enter the Chu Family’s secret chamber and steal its Sea of Consciousness cultivation method and two soul techniques.
• Dongfang Yueming entered the Tang Family’s scripture pavilion and stole another cultivation method and two soul techniques, bringing his total to three methods and six soul techniques.

Dongfang Yueming perfected and fused his spiritual arts, reaching Intermediate Sea of Consciousness Perfection, then planned to leave Demon Capital with Hong Gui to seek more materials. As the Li Family prepared for the demonic beast tide, Hong Gui revealed that the Night Watchers' headquarters might hold the cultivation arts he still needed.

• Dongfang Yueming perfected the Chi Yan Spirit-Tempering Record and two soul skills, fused them into mystic-grade arts, and gained the ability to control objects with his thoughts.
• Dongfang Yueming decided he needed five more yellow-grade materials and planned to take Hong Gui to Central Capital before Demon Capital became more dangerous.
• The Li Family patriarch discovered that someone had touched the Spirit-Concentrating Art's spiritual restriction and feared an incomprehensibly powerful intruder had entered his secret chamber.
• The Li Family patriarch told Li Canghai that the border had fallen, ordered the family's core members to prepare to evacuate, and warned them not to cause trouble.
• Dongfang Yueming returned to Hong Gui, told her he had obtained the three families' cultivation arts, and said they would go to Central Capital for more.
• Hong Gui warned that the Night Watchers' headquarters in Demon Capital held several sea of consciousness cultivation arts.

Dongfang Yueming set out to raid the Night Watchers headquarters for a Sea of Consciousness cultivation method while the city's strongest fighters went to defend the Boundary. At headquarters, a mysterious entity possessed Qinglong and targeted Baihu, believing she carried an ancient founder's inheritance.

• Dongfang Yueming decided to infiltrate the Night Watchers headquarters, told Hong Gui to wait, and vanished using the Horizon Within Reach.
• The Night Watchers' Sun Grade investigator and the three great families' patriarchs flew toward the Boundary as Dongfang Yueming continued toward headquarters.
• Qinglong struggled after swallowing a dark purple pill, and the mysterious entity revealed that it was divine blood before invading and possessing him.
• The possessed Qinglong sensed that the city's strongest defenders had left and resolved to feast on Baihu, whose pure white true qi suggested she held an ancient inheritance.
• The entity transformed into black-purple mist and slipped through the underground chamber's door, heading toward the upper floors to find Baihu.

Baihu struggled to control the murderous True Power of her Heaven Grade Taibai Slaughter Sword Scripture when an eerie presence appeared in her cultivation room. Meanwhile, Dongfang Yueming infiltrated the Night Watchers' treasury and stole Sea of Consciousness techniques and Soul Techniques, including a Profound Grade scripture and a defensive Soul Technique.

• Baihu's Taibai Slaughter Sword Scripture drove her True Power into a dangerous frenzy, threatening backlash and qi deviation.
• A strange dripping sound and eerie laugh came from a shadowy corner, and Baihu grabbed her saber and demanded to know who was there.
• Dongfang Yueming bypassed the Night Watchers' treasury defenses and searched its deepest shelves for Sea of Consciousness and Soul Techniques.
• Dongfang Yueming took three Yellow Grade Sea of Consciousness techniques and the Profound Grade Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns Illusory Spirit Scripture.
• Dongfang Yueming also collected seven Yellow Grade Soul Techniques and the Profound Grade Acala Divine Soul Bell.

Dongfang Yueming perfected his Sea of Consciousness and Soul Techniques, gaining heaven-grade arts and detecting a fight at Night Watchers headquarters. He arrived as a disguised monster overwhelmed Baihu, just before it attacked her.

• Dongfang Yueming fused his Sea of Consciousness arts into the heaven-grade Indestructible Primordial Spirit True Scripture and reached Divine Sense Like the Sea.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected and fused his Soul Techniques, gaining the heaven-grade Supreme Chaos Ninefold Divine Tower and other soul abilities.
• Dongfang Yueming sensed a battle between Baihu and the impostor Qinglong, whose aura contained anomalous demonic qi.
• The impostor Qinglong injured Baihu and revealed that it wanted the ancient inheritance within her.
• As Qinglong attacked Baihu with a corrosive black net, Dongfang Yueming appeared and said its vessel was too ugly.

Dongfang Yueming annihilated the monster possessing Qinglong and learned from Baihu that ancient human experts had established the Boundary and left behind inheritances. Baihu revealed that the monster had targeted the incomplete inheritance she possessed, then stopped Dongfang Yueming as he prepared to leave.

• Dongfang Yueming froze Qinglong's attack and destroyed its black scythe with tribulation lightning.
• Dongfang Yueming trapped the escaping slime fragments with his divine sense and annihilated their consciousnesses with mental spears.
• Baihu questioned Dongfang Yueming's strength and concluded he must have obtained an ancient inheritance.
• Baihu explained that exiled human experts had created the Boundary and that she had gained an incomplete inheritance targeted by the monster.
• Dongfang Yueming denied obtaining an inheritance and turned to leave, but Baihu called him back after making a decision.

Baihu repaid Dongfang Yueming for saving her by giving him her Heaven Grade cultivation methods and two rare Earth Grade Soul Techniques. After leaving her to recover with Hong Gui, Dongfang Yueming declared that he would head to the Boundary and deal with the monsters beyond its gap.

• Baihu taught Dongfang Yueming her Heaven Grade methods through the Soul Condensation Realm, though her inheritance had no record of what came next.
• Dongfang Yueming learned the Taibai Spirit Platform Foundation Establishment Diagram and Taibai Soul Condensation Sword Canon, along with Baihu's two Earth Grade Soul Techniques.
• Dongfang Yueming thanked Baihu and told her to find Hong Gui because she was badly injured and the area was unsafe.
• Dongfang Yueming left and said he would take them to the Boundary and fill the gap there, along with the monsters outside it.

Dongfang Yueming used Baihu’s gifts and his system points to perfect his Spirit Platform and Soul Condensation techniques, gaining immense spiritual defenses and a soul shaped into a sword. Armed with new soul techniques, he set out toward the city boundary, where demon beasts and powerful martial artists were gathered.

• Baihu dismissed Dongfang Yueming’s plan to flatten the boundary as reckless but decided to seek refuge with Hong Gui to survive the chaos.
• Dongfang Yueming spent points to perfect the Taibai Spirit Platform Foundation Establishment Diagram, gaining spiritual counterattacks and immunity to same-realm soul attacks.
• He perfected the Taibai Soul Condensation Sword Canon, allowing his soul to leave his body, roam by day, and ultimately transform into a spiritual sword.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected Baihu’s earth-grade Soul Techniques and fused the Spirit-Slaying Flying Dagger with the Great Wilderness Soul-Shattering Spear to create the heaven-grade Taixu Spirit-Slaying Flying Star.
• He headed toward the city boundary, hoping to exploit the battle between demon forces and powerful martial artists to gain unexpected rewards.

After Baihu told Hong Gui that Dongfang Yueming had destroyed the creature possessing Qinglong, Dongfang Yueming returned and chose to travel to the Central Capital for stronger cultivation methods and techniques before investigating the border. The chapter ended as he sensed a powerful, hostile visitor approaching.

• Baihu arrived at Hong Gui’s suite wounded and recounted how Dongfang Yueming had killed the creature possessing Qinglong with a single lightning strike.
• Dongfang Yueming emerged from the void and announced that they should prepare to leave for the border.
• Dongfang Yueming suspected that the monsters and the sealed world might be connected to the Primordial Sea and the Evil Gods from Beyond the Domain.
• Dongfang Yueming changed their destination to the Central Capital to seek a way beyond Soul Condensation and collect unconventional soul techniques.
• Dongfang Yueming sensed someone approaching with powerful golden true power and warned that they came with bad intentions.

Dongfang Yueming used his soul sword to drive Long Batian and the Long Family away from the Li estate, then prepared to leave Demon Capital for the Martial Dao Secret Codex Expo in Central Capital. Before departing with Hong Gui and Baihu, he annihilated the hidden Variants across the city.

• Long Batian demanded half of the Pan Family's assets and threatened the Li Family, but Dongfang Yueming struck him with invisible sword intent and forced him to flee.
• Baihu told Dongfang Yueming about Central Capital's upcoming Martial Dao Secret Codex Expo, where rare Soul Techniques and ancient artifacts would be displayed.
• Hong Gui said goodbye to Li Canghai, who let her leave with Dongfang Yueming after she assured him that Dongfang Yueming could protect her.
• Dongfang Yueming used his Divine Sense to find hidden Variants throughout Demon Capital and annihilated their souls with Flowers Bloom with a Thought, Souls Annihilated.
• Dongfang Yueming, Hong Gui, and Baihu left for Central Capital.

The Boundary defense forces and eleven Sea of Consciousness Realm experts fought off the first demonic beast assault, but their power was constrained by the Spirit Platform Realm demon kings waiting beyond the barrier. A demonic creature revealed that hidden pieces in Central Capital and Demon Capital were meant to create chaos and help bring down the Boundary from within and without.

• Demonic beasts poured through the void rift and breached a section of the Boundary wall, threatening the human defensive line.
• The four arriving Sea of Consciousness Realm experts joined the seven already stationed at the Boundary and helped hold back the beast tide.
• The Sea of Consciousness Realm experts fought for three hours, suffering injuries and spiritual corrosion before forcing back the first wave.
• The Sun Grade investigator explained that human Spirit Platform Realm seniors could not intervene without provoking the demon kings waiting beyond the barrier.
• A group of demonic creatures plotted to use hidden pieces in Central Capital and Demon Capital to cause chaos and collapse the Boundary defenses.

Dongfang Yueming brought Hong Gui and Baihu from Demon Capital to Central Capital, where Variants attacked the Martial Dao Secret Codex Expo. As human Sea of Consciousness Realm experts faced two powerful monsters, three disguised attackers revealed themselves, and Dongfang Yueming arrived above the chaos.

• Dongfang Yueming carried Hong Gui and Baihu through the sky from Demon Capital toward Central Capital.
• Variants burst into the International Martial Dao Expo Center and attacked the gathered martial artists.
• An elder and other martial artists fought the first Variants, but two Sea of Consciousness Realm monsters smashed through the dome and killed the elder.
• An old Daoist and an old monk appeared to confront the monsters, while three disguised family guards revealed True Power Realm Perfection auras behind them.
• Dongfang Yueming arrived above the shattered expo center with Hong Gui and Baihu and looked down at the massacre.

Dongfang Yueming intervened as the Central Capital’s defenders were about to fall, killing the Variants with heavenly lightning and a soul technique. After demanding the expo’s unconventional Soul Techniques, he learned and fused them into a new Heaven Grade technique.

• Dongfang Yueming rescued the old monk and the azure-robed Daoist by killing a True Power Perfection Variant with Heavenly Grade lightning.
• Dongfang Yueming annihilated the souls of two Sea of Consciousness Realm demonic creatures and two remaining traitors with a Heaven Grade Soul Technique.
• Dongfang Yueming demanded the unconventional Soul Techniques from the expo, and the azure-robed Daoist gave him a case containing them.
• Dongfang Yueming used the System to master the techniques and fused seven Yellow Grade techniques with Soul Search and Spirit Seizure.
• Dongfang Yueming obtained the Perfection-level Heaven Grade special Soul Technique Great Wilderness Soul-Capturing Chains.

Dongfang Yueming perfected powerful Heaven Grade soul techniques while, in Central Capital, he saved the expo center from demonic creatures and traitors. A Sun Grade investigator learned that Central Capital was safe and heard that a mysterious young expert had defeated the attackers, with Baihu beside him.

• Dongfang Yueming gained the Heaven Grade soul techniques Myriad Arts Soul Capture and Taixu Illusion and Destruction True Scripture, including One Thought, One World.
• A Sun Grade investigator received word that Central Capital's expo center had been attacked by Variants, demonic creatures, and an insider.
• The investigator learned that the Variants in Demon Capital had suddenly died and that Baihu and Qinglong were missing, with demonic residue found in Qinglong's chamber.
• The green-robed old Daoist told the Sun Grade investigator that Central Capital was safe after a mysterious young senior killed the invading demonic creatures and traitors in one move.
• The old Daoist revealed that Baihu was with the mysterious senior and seemed to have a close relationship with him.

After saving the Central Capital, Dongfang Yueming sought knowledge of the realm beyond Soul Condensation and learned that humanity’s Spirit Platform Realm patriarch might know more. The demon king launched an all-out assault on the Demon Capital border, where the patriarch emerged to confront it as the battle between the two Spirit Platform Realm experts began.

• The Sun Grade investigator concluded that Dongfang Yueming was likely a Spirit Platform Realm expert and ordered the Central Capital authorities to treat him with utmost respect.
• The old Daoist and old monk offered Dongfang Yueming access to Great Xia’s treasury, but he instead asked about the realm beyond Soul Condensation; the old Daoist pointed him toward the patriarch guarding the Demon Capital border.
• Baihu wondered whether Dongfang Yueming had reached the peak of Soul Condensation after hearing his question and recalling his display of power.
• A Spirit Platform Realm demon king discovered that its forces sent to the Central Capital had been destroyed and ordered the entire demon army to attack the border.
• Thousands of demons and more than a dozen Sea of Consciousness Realm lords overwhelmed the human defenses, prompting the old Daoist, old monk, Dongfang Yueming, Hong Gui, and Baihu to head for the front.
• The demon king struck at the defenders with a massive hand of demonic qi, but humanity’s Spirit Platform Realm patriarch cut it apart with a sword of mental power and faced the demon king.

Dongfang Yueming cleansed Central Capital of hidden Variants and demonic threats, then headed for the front lines with Hong Gui and Baihu. Wang Teng blocked their way and threatened them, unaware of Dongfang Yueming’s strength, while the old Daoist warned that Wang Teng was the Spirit Platform ancestor’s only remaining heir.

• A Spirit Platform Realm battle raged at Demon Capital’s boundary, leaving the watching Sea of Consciousness experts helpless as they feared for Great Xia’s fate.
• Dongfang Yueming used Flowers Bloom with a Thought, Souls and Spirits Destroyed to kill tens of thousands of corrupted people and Variants hidden throughout Central Capital.
• Dongfang Yueming set off for the boundary with Hong Gui and Baihu after clearing the city of its hidden threats.
• Wang Teng confronted Dongfang Yueming, demanding compensation for the Purple-Gold Demon Ape killed by his technique and threatening to take his secret art.
• The blue-robed old Daoist warned Dongfang Yueming that Wang Teng was the direct great-grandson and only remaining heir of the Spirit Platform Realm ancestor fighting the Demon King.
• Wang Teng ignored the warning, shoved the old Daoist aside, and demanded that Dongfang Yueming surrender his technique and serve him or leave Hong Gui and Baihu behind.

Dongfang Yueming killed Wang Teng after uncovering his crimes, despite pleas to spare the heir of a Spirit Platform ancestor. He then flew with Hong Gui and Baihu toward the Demon Capital’s border battlefield.

• The old Daoist and old monk pleaded with Dongfang Yueming to spare Wang Teng for the sake of his great-grandfather and Great Xia’s defenses, but Wang Teng ordered his guards to attack.
• Dongfang Yueming used the Heavenly Dao Dharma Eye to shatter the souls of Wang Teng’s four True Power Realm guards with a single glance.
• Dongfang Yueming crippled Wang Teng, used Myriad Arts Soul Capture to discover his crimes, and destroyed his soul.
• Dongfang Yueming left with Hong Gui and Baihu, flying toward the battle at the Demon Capital’s border.

The demonic beast tide broke through the Boundary Great Wall as Great Xia’s defenders were overwhelmed. Elder Wang fell to the Lingtai Demon King, leaving the surviving humans convinced that Great Xia was finished.

• Demonic beasts poured through massive gaps in the Boundary Great Wall, and a Sea of Consciousness Realm government expert was killed, leaving eight human fighters alive.
• Elder Wang fought the Lingtai Demon King in the heavens and burned his source spiritual power to strengthen his attacks.
• The Lingtai Demon King dispersed into demonic qi and pierced Elder Wang’s back, corroding his body and spiritual power.
• Elder Wang fell from the sky as his spiritual sword dissolved, and he believed Great Xia was finished.
• The Lingtai Demon King declared the land would become its race’s pasture, while the defenders gave up hope and the Demon Capital’s boundary defense collapsed.

Dongfang Yueming arrived at the Boundary battlefield with two women and effortlessly dispersed the Lingtai Demon King's attack. He unleashed his soul technique to annihilate the demonic army, leaving the surviving humans stunned.

• The Lingtai Demon King sent a mountain-sized demonic sphere toward the falling Elder Wang and the human experts.
• Dongfang Yueming appeared above the battlefield with two women and dispersed the sphere with a casual wave.
• Dongfang Yueming released his full aura, forcing the Sea of Consciousness Realm demonic creatures to the ground.
• Dongfang Yueming used Flowers Bloom with a Thought to annihilate the souls of the demonic beasts and creatures across the battlefield.
• The human survivors stared at Dongfang Yueming in shock as the demonic army lay dead.