Recaps

After leaving Great Xia, Dongfang Yueming advanced his body cultivation, crossed the Beast Defense Frontier, and secured passage to the Central Continent. He arrived in the Cloud Water Dynasty with Hong Ling and learned of the Battle of the Flood Dragon Gate, while Xi Zhenyue and Gao Long joined the Heaven-Surging Alliance.

• Dongfang Yueming refused the Earth Spirit Sect’s offer rather than abandon Shi Qing, then returned to Great Xia and received the Origin Page from Qin Rushuang, which fused his perfected techniques.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected his body-tempering methods, learned that Shi Qing had left for the Central Continent, and departed to hunt beasts and search for Hongxiu.
• Dongfang Yueming destroyed the beast tide at the Beast Defense Frontier, killed its powerful leader, and upgraded Light Snow before setting out for the Great Han Dynasty.
• Jiao Yu’er recruited Dongfang Yueming for a trip to Jade Fire Island, where he rescued her from a Fang Bone Shark after Brother Li abandoned her.
• Jiao Xiaotian paid for Dongfang Yueming’s passage aboard the Wave-Breaking Divine Vessel, and a red silk gift from the Jiao Clan patriarch granted him the Crimson Swirl Qi Refining Method, which he used to reach the Qi Refining Realm.
• A sea-beast attack struck the vessel, and Dongfang Yueming fought beside Hong Ling and Hong Bai while Xi Zhenyue directed a beast toward them, after the voyage, Xi Zhenyue and Gao Long joined the Heaven-Surging Alliance.
• In the Cloud Water Dynasty, Dongfang Yueming met Xie Ning and learned from Hong Ling about the Battle of the Flood Dragon Gate, then obtained the Nine-Turn Qi Refining Method from her.

Dongfang Yueming traveled to the Heavenly Splendor Dynasty, forged a path through conflicting cultivation methods, and entered Trial Valley under the alias Dongfang Ri. He survived its deadly fog trials and discovered that Gray Mist Pearls could turn their holders into temporary mist monsters.

• Dongfang Yueming killed Xi Zhenyue and Gao Long, perfected the Crimson Swirl Qi Refining Method, and formed a high-grade Qi Swirl Phenomenon with his Crimson Flame Fist Technique.
• Dongfang Yueming traveled toward the Heavenly Splendor Dynasty, perfected the Heaven-Surging Qi Refining Method, and fused it with the Crimson Swirl method to create the Water-Fire Yin-Yang Art.
• Dongfang Yueming escaped an ambush in Sand Snake Land, killed a Heaven-Surging Alliance expert, and perfected Cloud-Treading Steps before reaching the capital.
• Dongfang Yueming entered the Internal Force Realm, learned that his conflicting martial intents were difficult to treat, and developed the True Qi Skin Tempering Method while studying manuals in Tianhua City.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected his Body Tempering methods and martial arts, then registered for Trial Valley as Dongfang Ri and defeated Zhang Meng and Lang Xiaotian in the first-stage arena.
• Dongfang Yueming and the other contestants survived the gorge’s deadly mist monsters, with Dongfang Yueming rescuing Wei Meng in exchange for her Red Flame Hand and Red Flame Force Condensation Method.
• Dongfang Yueming learned that only three contestants could pass the narrow passages and that Gray Mist Pearls let their holders become Mist Phantoms that hunted others.
• Dongfang Yueming killed a disguised Hou Liang and another Gray Mist Pearl bearer, then deduced that the pearls offered a temporary path toward corruption.

Dongfang Yueming survived the Trial Valley massacre, returned through Cold Wind City, and defeated the families that tried to seize him before breaking through to the Martial Dao Grandmaster Realm. Back in Great Xia, he uncovered signs of a blood-draining calamity as Gao Hu and a rival spirit treasure fragment moved toward a confrontation.

• Chi Qing and Lang Po transformed into monsters during the Trial Valley slaughter, and Dongfang Yueming realized the trial required three monster offerings before escaping after killing the black-robed deacon.
• Dongfang Yueming boarded a ship home, saved its passengers from a Purple-Horned Demon Serpent, and killed Bai Zhanxiong and Bai Feng when the Bai family attacked him.
• Dongfang Yueming reached Cold Wind City, killed Hong Tao while protecting Jiao Yu'er, and learned that Hongxiu was likely in the Love Palace and could be reclaimed by someone who reached Innate Physique.
• The Yi family and Hong Batian joined forces against Dongfang Yueming, but he killed the Yi patriarch, Hong Batian, and the Yi family's core members, then took their martial arts and the Sea-Overturning Seal.
• Dongfang Yueming exchanged the Hong and Jiao clans' Grandmaster methods for the Yi family's methods, fused the techniques, and broke through to the Martial Dao Grandmaster Realm on his way home.
• Dongfang Yueming returned to Great Xia and learned that martial artists were disappearing after their essence blood was drained, while he strengthened Li Yue and heard that Gao Hu had vanished.
• Gao Hu reached the Internal Force Realm, and the iron fragment identified itself as part of the Bloodthirsty Awl and revealed that another fragment holder was at the Great Xia Martial Arts Academy.

Dongfang Yueming crushed the Great Qi Dynasty’s Grandmaster sects and traveled to the Central Continent, where he destroyed the Heaven-Surging Alliance’s plot against the Cloudwater Sect. He reached the Innate Realm and Treasure-Grade Innate Physique, while Yun Qian headed for Dragon Firmament Academy and Dongfang Yueming sought a higher-grade cultivation technique.

• Dongfang Yueming killed Gao Hu and Li Xuan, erased the Bloodthirsty Awl core’s consciousness, and later defeated the Zhao Family before returning Light Snow to Uncle Shi.
• Dongfang Yueming killed Yue Tao, Xi Feng, the Blood Refining Sect Grandmaster, and Li Potian, then took control of the Earth Spirit Sect and absorbed its spirit vein core.
• Dongfang Yueming subdued Grandmaster sects across the Great Qi Dynasty, gathered their inheritances, and reached the Grandmaster Limit before the Scarlet Flame envoy attacked and escaped.
• Dongfang Yueming killed Li Daoxuan and looted sects across the region, then boarded a ship for the Central Continent and erased the Purple-Horned Demon Serpent when it attacked.
• Dongfang Yueming learned about the Battle of the Dragon Gate and the Evolution Dragon Pool, then entered the Cloud Water Dynasty and targeted the Heaven-Surging Alliance for an Innate Physique method.
• Dongfang Yueming killed Gu Yue and arrived with Qu Yutang as the Heaven-Surging Alliance and Cloud-Overturning Gate attacked the Cloudwater Sect, where Zhao Wugou was preparing to sacrifice its patriarch.
• Dongfang Yueming killed Zhao Wugou and Shang Jiuyou, reached the Innate Realm during his fight with Xiao Tiance, then unlocked Divine Ability: Martial Dao and killed Xiao Tiance from afar.
• The Cloudwater Sect patriarch sent Yun Qian to Dragon Firmament Academy, while Dongfang Yueming perfected three body-forging methods, reached Treasure-Grade Innate, and concluded that he needed a higher-grade technique to advance further.