Recaps

Li Yunjing persuaded Zhang Jianchen to unite the lower realms against Qingxu and ultimately break free of the Mystic Yellow Immortal Realm’s control. Zhang Jianchen contacted other Dao Realms, and three agreed to send representatives to Tianyuan.

• Li Yunjing revealed his plan to unite the lower realms and establish an independent order where cultivators could become immortals without ascending to the Mystic Yellow Immortal Realm, and Zhang Jianchen agreed.
• Zhang Jianchen summoned the leaders of the seventeen oldest Dao lineages, and they agreed to reactivate ancient cross-realm teleportation arrays.
• The Crimson Sand and Netherworld arrays received no response, while the Golden Sand Dao Realm rejected Zhang Jianchen’s warning and offer of an alliance.
• The Vast Waves, Crimson Yellow, and Mystic Ice Dao Realms agreed to send representatives to Tianyuan to investigate Qingxu’s threat and consider cooperation.
• Dao Lord Lanxi, Dao Lord Chiyan, and Dao Lord Bingxuan arrived from their respective Dao Realms.

Li Yunjing and Zhang Jianchen secured alliances with three Dao Realms by demonstrating Tianyuan’s powerful foundations and exchanging warship technology. When an envoy reported that Qingxu’s army was about to conquer the Golden Sand Dao Realm, Li Yunjing decided Tianyuan would send help.

• Li Yunjing showed the representatives of the Vast Waves, Crimson Yellow, and Mystic Ice Dao Realms Tianyuan’s ten Ancestral Veins, void fleet, and Innate Immortal Artifact, and all three agreed to form an alliance.
• Tianyuan and the three Dao Realms exchanged warship designs and techniques, improving their ships enough for a Luozhen Province Class capital ship to injure a Loose Immortal.
• An envoy from the Golden Sand Dao Realm arrived near death and reported that Qingxu’s army had surrounded his realm and was close to breaking its barrier.
• Dao Lord Hanzun and others argued against helping Golden Sand because it had rejected Tianyuan’s earlier offer, but Li Yunjing urged them to save it to prevent Qingxu from growing stronger and to win the trust of other Dao Realms.

Li Yunjing led an allied fleet from the Tianyuan Dao Realm to rescue the Golden Sand Dao Realm from Qingxu’s forces. After defeating the enemy vanguard and welcoming Dao Lord Golden Sand, the allies entered the realm and discovered that it had suffered extensive damage.

• Li Yunjing persuaded the allied Dao Realms to send troops, and Zhang Jianchen appointed him supreme commander.
• The Luozhen, Vast Waves, Crimson Yellow, and Mystic Ice forces gathered at Heavenly Craft Valley and traveled through an unstable teleportation passage to the Golden Sand Dao Realm.
• Li Yunjing ordered the fleet to attack Qingxu’s forces from behind, destroying enemy warships and disrupting their assault on the realm wall.
• Dao Lord Hanzun led Cold Abyss warriors in a boarding attack while Dao Lord Lanxi and Dao Lord Chiyan supported the allied advance.
• Dao Lord Golden Sand led his defenders out through the realm wall, helping the allies crush the enemy vanguard and capture soldiers and supplies.
• Dao Lord Golden Sand welcomed Li Yunjing, and the allies entered the Golden Sand Dao Realm, where they saw that it was in a dire state.

After saving the Golden Sand Dao Realm, Li Yunjing helped it join and strengthen the alliance, which grew to seven Dao Realms and established a unified command and defense system. Qingxu revealed that his earlier attack had only been a probe and ordered an incarnation wielding thirty percent of his power to descend and pursue the Divine Seal of Creation.

• Dao Lord Golden Sand formally joined Li Yunjing’s alliance, and Li Yunjing gave the realm frigates and shipbuilding blueprints.
• Li Yunjing spent seven days reinforcing Golden Sand’s defenses before returning to Luozhen Province with his fleet.
• The Wind-Soaring and Vast Cloud Dao Realms sought protection, bringing the alliance to seven Dao Realms.
• Representatives established a joint command under Li Yunjing, shared shipbuilding plans, and organized mutual defenses.
• At Floating Tribulation Stone, Qingxu explained that the vanguard’s defeat had been a probe and ordered an incarnation with thirty percent of his power to descend.

Dao Lord Qingxu’s three-hundred-thousand-strong army confronted the allied forces of seven Dao Realms at Tianyuan’s northern barrier. After the armies exchanged formations and attacks, black tribulation fire threatened to burn through the allies’ defensive barrier.

• Zhang Jianchen assembled the seven realms’ allied forces at the northern barrier to face Dao Lord Qingxu’s advancing army.
• Xue Tu challenged the allied army, fought Fang Hexuan to an advantage, then withdrew after Mu You held him in combat for a hundred moves.
• Li Yunjing and the enemy commander ordered their forces into battle formations, and the Spirit-Devouring Formation’s black tornado struck the allies’ Mystic Yellow Eight Gates.
• The Crimson Yellow Dao Realm fired tens of thousands of flame shells, but the enemy’s Bone Umbrella Formation blocked them.
• The black-robed commander unleashed Heaven-Burning tribulation fire, and Dao Lord Lanxi warned that it could burn through the barrier.

Li Yunjing and the allied army fought off the enemy’s assault, with Dao Lord Hanzun killing their general, Xue Tu. The Divine Seal of Creation shattered Daoist Yinshen’s soul formation, but a powerful purple figure rose from the enemy ranks as the battle turned in the allies’ favor.

• Li Yunjing used the Five Aggregates Cauldron to absorb the enemy’s Tribulation Power as Xue Tu led a charge against the allied formation.
• The allied forces repelled the charge with spirit cannons and armored warriors, but both sides suffered heavy casualties.
• At Li Yunjing’s request, Dao Lord Hanzun fought Xue Tu, froze him with his ultimate technique, and killed him.
• Daoist Yinshen set up the Ten Thousand Souls Formation to harvest souls, but Li Yunjing redirected the souls with the Five Aggregates Cauldron while Mu You, Fang Hexuan, and the others broke his ghostly attack.
• Li Yunjing activated the Divine Seal of Creation, which dissipated Tribulation Qi and shattered the Ten Thousand Souls Formation, allowing the allied army to launch a counterattack.
• As the enemy army began to collapse, a purple figure surrounded by tribulation flames rose from its ranks and dismissed the fighters as trash.

Dao Lord Qingxu attacked Li Yunjing and the allied forces, overwhelming their formations until the Divine Seal of Creation summoned the Dao Ancestor of Creation’s remnant will. The Dao Ancestor confronted Qingxu over his corrupted Tribulation Dao and effortlessly dispelled his attack, leaving Qingxu shocked.

• Dao Lord Qingxu appeared on the battlefield and offered to spare Li Yunjing if he surrendered, but Li Yunjing refused.
• Qingxu’s finger strike pierced the allied forces’ layered formations, and Li Yunjing blocked it with the Five Aggregates Cauldron.
• Qingxu’s Purple Void Tribulation Fire battered the formations until the cultivators struggled to hold them together.
• The Divine Seal of Creation summoned the Dao Ancestor of Creation’s phantom, who dispelled the Tribulation Qi and purple fire.
• Qingxu rejected the Dao Ancestor’s plea to turn back and attacked him, but the Dao Ancestor swept away his palm print and declared his Dao wrong.

After the Dao Ancestor of Creation left with the Divine Seal, Qingxu went berserk and overwhelmed the defenders. Li Yunjing summoned a Lightning Tribulation against him, and its first strikes began suppressing Qingxu’s Tribulation Power while tempering Li Yunjing.

• The Dao Ancestor of Creation said the Divine Seal’s tribulations had run their course, then left with the seal for the Mystic Yellow Immortal Realm after telling Li Yunjing to conduct himself well.
• Qingxu grew stronger in his berserk state, wounded Dao Lord Hanzun, Xuanjizi, and Yunyouzi, and drove the allied forces toward despair.
• Li Yunjing decided lightning could counter Tribulation Power, left the formation, and summoned a Lightning Tribulation while challenging Qingxu to face it.
• Qingxu met the first lightning bolt with Tribulation fire, but the lightning entered his body and began melting away his Tribulation Power.
• The second lightning bolt struck both Qingxu and Li Yunjing; Li Yunjing endured it while tempering his body, while Qingxu staggered back and suffered disordered Tribulation Power.

Li Yunjing helped Tianyuan ascend into an Immortal Realm, defeated Qingxu’s incarnation, and became a True Immortal. With Qingxu’s true body threatening to descend, Li Yunjing united the alliance to strengthen its forces and prepare to strike into the void.

• Li Yunjing passed the lightning tribulation and reached tribulation transcendence perfection, while its final bolt gravely wounded Qingxu.
• The Tianyuan Dao Realm transformed into an Immortal Realm, allowing Xuanjizi and Yunyouzi to become True Immortals.
• Li Yunjing suppressed Qingxu’s attempt to self-destruct, and Yunyouzi killed his incarnation; Qingxu’s true body vowed to descend, but the allied army routed his leaderless forces.
• Three days later, a pillar of merit light helped Li Yunjing break through and become Tianyuan’s third True Immortal.
• Li Yunjing called the alliance leaders together, ordered stronger defenses, shared shipbuilding, and recruitment of more Dao Realms, and announced plans to strike into the void.