Recaps

Shi Xuan confronted the Five Elders of Heavenly Zen when they tried to bar the crowd from entering the hidden treasure. After identifying himself as the Dao-Seeking Academy genius Slaughter-Breaking Sword, he proved his strength by killing Elder Tiger with one sword strike.

• The Five Elders of Heavenly Zen arrived and warned everyone away from the hidden treasure, but Shi Xuan said he would enter with Liang Yi and the others.
• Shi Xuan revealed that people in the Land of Slaughter called him Slaughter-Breaking Sword, and the crowd recognized him as a rising Dao-Seeking Academy genius.
• Elder Tiger demanded proof of Shi Xuan's identity, and Shi Xuan accepted his challenge.
• Shi Xuan displayed Sword Intent Great Perfection and severed Elder Tiger's head with a single sword strike.

Shi Xuan entered the Emperor Shadow Secret Treasury with Liang Yi and encountered an old man whom Old Ghost Fu recognized as his master. The old man revealed that the treasury was a place for cultivation where they might comprehend the True Essence of the Great Dao.

• Shi Xuan defeated Elder Tiger, took his corpse, and entered the secret treasury with Liang Yi and the others.
• The Four Elders of Heavenly Zen warned the remaining cultivators about Shi Xuan before entering, and the star gate closed after all eighty-one trial participants had gone inside.
• An ancient voice announced that the Emperor Shadow Secret Treasury would remain open for eighty-one days, and Shi Xuan continued onward without pursuing a possible Great Emperor's inheritance.
• Shi Xuan and the others found a stone chamber filled with cultivators meditating and sparring, where Old Ghost Shou recognized his master.
• Old Ghost Fu greeted the old man, who woke and said the treasury might let master and disciple comprehend the True Essence of the Great Dao.

Shi Xuan uncovered that the stone-wall moves were meant to strengthen cultivators’ True Intent rather than be learned as techniques, and he guided Liang Yi to use the same method. After eighty days in the stone chambers, Liang Yi reached the Perfection of Sword Intent, drawing the attention of the other cultivators.

• Jin Xi explained that the Emperor Shadow Secret Realm contained inheritances left by Great Emperors before they ascended.
• Shi Xuan studied the moves on the first stone wall, resisted their influence with his Dao heart, and realized they were meant to help cultivators comprehend True Intent.
• Shi Xuan instructed Liang Yi to attack the wall’s moves with his Sword Intent, helping him deepen his understanding.
• Shi Xuan used his Sword Intent against the moves in successive chambers until it was defeated in the seventh chamber.
• After eighty days, Liang Yi shattered the wall’s moves with his Sword Intent and announced that he had reached its Perfection.
• Old Ghost Fu asked Liang Yi how he had made such progress.

Liang Yi perfected his Sword Intent and left the hidden treasury with Shi Xuan, who was still struggling to advance his True Intent. The Four Ghosts of South Mountain asked to become Shi Xuan’s followers, and he agreed to consider them if they passed the Heart-Questioning Mirror in Dao-Seeking City.

• Liang Yi reached the next stone chamber with his treasured sword, while the Four Ghosts of South Mountain and other cultivators followed him, hoping to learn from him.
• Liang Yi told Shi Xuan that his Sword Intent had reached perfection, then asked questions about cultivation as Shi Xuan patiently answered.
• After the hidden treasury’s cultivation period ended, Shi Xuan and Liang Yi left, followed by the Four Ghosts of South Mountain, the Four Elders of Heavenly Zen, and Jin Xi’s group.
• Shi Xuan stopped the Four Ghosts of South Mountain and heard Old Ghost Fu ask to become his lackeys so they could mend their ways.
• Shi Xuan told the Four Ghosts they could qualify as his followers if they passed the Heart-Questioning Mirror in Dao-Seeking City, and they agreed to try.

After returning to Dao-Seeking City, Shi Xuan brought the Four Ghosts of South Mountain to the Shi Residence, then visited his master Chu Feng at Dao-Seeking Academy. He described his difficulty comprehending the True Essence of the Great Dao despite reaching True Intent Great Perfection.

• Shi Xuan ordered the Four Ghosts of South Mountain to follow him and brought them to the Shi Residence, where Uncle Yuan revealed that Shi Xuan was Great Sage Qiankun's personal disciple and the Northern Wasteland's eldest imperial grandson.
• Shi Xuan walked up Miaomiao Mountain with Liang Yi and felt an unfamiliar peace and tranquility.
• Shi Xuan met his two junior sisters, Chu Yuzhi and her sister, in Chu Feng's courtyard.
• Shi Xuan told Chu Feng that he could not comprehend the True Essence of the Great Dao despite reaching True Intent Great Perfection in two kinds of True Intent.

Chu Feng taught Shi Xuan the Taiji Fist Art to help him fuse his two perfected True Intents, then spent three years reciting scriptures beneath the bodhi tree until it became a Buddha tree. The dean assigned Chu Feng to lead Miaomiao Mountain’s team in the Ten Saints Grand Competition, which he agreed to do.

• Chu Feng told Shi Xuan that Taiji could fuse two True Intents, taught him the Taiji Fist Art, and urged him to listen to scriptures beneath the bodhi tree.
• Three years passed, and Chen Qianqian, Bai Qian, and the other disciples advanced in their cultivation.
• As Chu Feng recited scriptures, the bodhi tree radiated Buddha light across Miaomiao Mountain and helped cultivators enter a state of meditation.
• The bodhi tree comprehended the True Essence of the Buddhist Dao and became a Buddha tree, earning Chu Feng a system reward of ten points of True Essence of the Great Dao.
• The dean visited Miaomiao Mountain, learned Chu Feng expected to become a Saint within a year, and appointed him to lead the team at the Ten Saints Grand Competition.
• Chu Feng accepted the appointment and said he would meet the Saints of the other holy lands.

Chu Feng’s disciples gained insights beneath the Bodhi tree, and their breakthroughs gave him enough True Essence of the Great Dao to begin deducing the Great Dao. After eighty-one days of seclusion, Chu Feng’s deduction remained underway as an unusual phenomenon appeared above Dao-Seeking Academy.

• Bodhi Zi emerged from the Bodhi tree, received his name from Chu Feng, and greeted Chu Feng’s disciples and family as their junior brother.
• Xu Caichen comprehended the True Essence of the Literary Dao, Han Ping comprehended the True Essence of Yin-Yang, and Chu Caiyi reached Time True Intent Great Perfection, earning Chu Feng system rewards.
• Chu Feng began deducing the Great Dao and dreamed through memories of his previous and current lives before deciding to merge all the Great Daos.
• Chu Feng remained in seclusion for eighty-one days while his disciples cultivated and Great Sage Golden Wing unsuccessfully sought an explanation from his adoptive father.
• The disciples noticed an unusual phenomenon in the sky above Dao-Seeking Academy.

Chu Feng fused the myriad Daos into his own Great Dao, became a Saint, and preached to Dao-Seeking Academy for three days. After his sermon brought breakthroughs and increased his Dao Resonance, he visited the dean and reaffirmed that he would always be his student.

• A vast heavenly phenomenon appeared above Dao-Seeking Academy, and cultivators across the city returned to witness a Saint's emergence.
• After nine days and nights, Chu Feng awoke, defined his Dao as the one original Dao, and saw his status panel record his Great Sage Qiankun title and cultivation.
• Chu Feng appeared before Bing Yan, Princess Miao Yu, and the academy disciples, announced his attainment, and began a three-day sermon beneath the bodhi tree.
• The sermon ended with breakthroughs among the listeners, and Chu Feng gained 220 points of True Essence of the Great Dao, which the system converted into two Dao Resonance.
• Chu Feng visited the dean, poured tea for him, and said he would always remain his student.

After becoming a Saint, Chu Feng learned how Saints cultivated and watched the news of his ascension reshape the fortunes of his disciples and their associated factions. As the Ten Saints Grand Competition approached, he took charge of Dao-Seeking Academy’s delegation and set out for Dao-Seeking City.

• Chu Feng asked the dean about cultivation after becoming a Saint, and the dean explained how Dao Resonance could eventually forge a Divine Spark and allow a god to travel the void.
• News of Chu Feng’s ascension spread across the Profound Heaven Continent, bringing prestige to his disciples and to the factions connected to them.
• Great Sage Benlei ordered Thunderclap Mountain Villa to seal its gates and limit recruitment so it would not let its new status make enemies.
• Chu Feng invited Great Sage Benlei to accompany him to the Ten Saints Grand Competition, and Benlei eagerly accepted.
• With three months left before the competition, Chu Feng left for Dao-Seeking City with Dao-Seeking Academy’s delegation after the dean entrusted the event to him.

Chu Feng led Dao-Seeking Academy’s disciples to Nine Cauldrons City for the Ten Saints Grand Competition and told his fellow Great Sages to let the disciples settle their grudges. Qin Qin asked to pursue revenge for her family’s murder at the competition, and Chu Feng gave her permission as the contest approached.

• Chu Feng assured the academy dean that he would bring every disciple back safely, then led Dao-Seeking Academy through the teleportation array to Nine Cauldrons City.
• Chu Feng brought the disciples to their guesthouse and ordered them not to cause trouble before the competition began.
• Chu Feng told Ye Mo and Lin Ming that the disciples could settle their grudges, and the Great Sages agreed to intervene only if someone broke the rules.
• Qin Qin asked Chu Feng for permission to seek revenge at the competition, and he agreed to help investigate who had murdered her family.
• Bing Yan comforted Qin Qin, and Chu Feng told her to rest and prepare for the competition.

Cao Youqian and Shi Xuan visited the Inquiring Fragrance Courtyard in Nine Cauldrons City, where Cao Youqian used its entertainers to gather information about the prodigies in the Ten Saints Grand Competition. He learned the names Moke and Wuming, and questioned the latter name.

• Chu Feng reassured Bing Yan about Qin Qin and revealed that he had asked Daqian to investigate which prodigies the holy lands were sending to compete.
• Cao Youqian took Shi Xuan to the Inquiring Fragrance Courtyard, saying he wanted to find out whether the competition would offer interesting opponents.
• The madam led them to Yaojing Pavilion, where two red-haired demonesses joined them at their window seat.
• Cao Youqian offered the demonesses high-grade spirit stones for truthful answers about the holy lands' prodigies, while Shi Xuan pretended to be drunk.
• One demoness identified Moke of Great Thunderclap Temple, and the other named Wuming of the Divine Sword Holy Land, prompting Cao Youqian to question her answer.

Cao Youqian learned that powerful newcomers from the Heaven Continent would join the Ten Saints Grand Competition, while Chu Feng prepared his disciples for the contest. The competition began at the Nine Cauldrons Secret Realm, with the Divine Sword Holy Land entering first and the Dao-Seeking Academy poised to follow.

• Cao Youqian paid two witches for news that Wuming had come from the Heaven Continent to challenge Prodigy Xiao, while Moke had mastered Buddhist True Essence and defeated a bodhisattva in debate.
• Cao Youqian and Shi Xuan told Chu Feng about the reinforcements, and Chu Feng agreed to guide his disciples before the competition.
• Three days before the competition, Great Sage Mountain-Mover led the Dao-Seeking Academy's delegation toward Nine Cauldrons Mountain after Chu Feng gave a speech and ordered them to set out.
• The lord of Nine Cauldrons City opened the secret realm after a ceremony and announced that the competition would last forty-nine days.
• The Divine Sword Holy Land entered first as the previous competition's winner, and Chu Feng ordered the Dao-Seeking Academy's disciples to set out.

Chu Feng entered the Nine Cauldrons Secret Realm with representatives of the holy lands, where the Saints gathered to decide the rules for their competition. After Great Sage Nether Passage challenged him, Chu Feng demonstrated a terrifying Great Dao of the Netherworld that overwhelmed Nether Passage and stunned everyone, leaving the skeletal hand suspended before him.

• Chu Feng explored the Nine Cauldrons Secret Realm with his divine sense and sensed that its rules differed from those of the Profound Heaven Continent.
• The holy lands and other factions gathered, and Great Sage Godslayer, Great Sage Blood Sea, and Great Sage Nether Passage proposed deciding the competition's rules by determining a winner.
• Great Sage Nether Passage challenged Chu Feng, and Chu Feng mocked his Great Dao before inviting both Nether Passage and Blood Sea to attack him together.
• Great Sage Nether Passage transformed the realm into a hellish landscape, but Chu Feng dismissed it as an empty display and offered to show him the real Great Dao of the Netherworld.
• Chu Feng summoned an enormous skeletal hand and an eighteen-level purgatory that overwhelmed Nether Passage, then stopped the hand before it seized him and asked what he thought of Chu Feng's Great Dao.

Chu Feng defeated Great Sage Nether Passage and Great Sage Blood Sea, then helped set the Ten Saints Grand Competition’s format. The competition began with disciples below Nirvana scheduled to fight first.

• Chu Feng revealed his mastery of the Great Dao of the Netherworld, then invited Great Sage Blood Sea to challenge him.
• Great Sage Blood Sea unleashed the Wrath of the Blood Sea, but Chu Feng summoned a treasured sword and destroyed the sea of blood, forcing Blood Sea to concede.
• Great Sage Godslayer declined to fight Chu Feng and proposed two formats for the Ten Saints Grand Competition.
• Chu Feng chose disciple challenges, and the Saints agreed to hold three days of matches for disciples below Nirvana before matches for those above Nirvana.
• Chu Feng returned to the Dao-Seeking Academy camp, told its members to prepare their disciples, and the competition began half an hour later.

Shi Hao challenged Shi Xuan at the Ten Saints Grand Competition to settle their grudge, and the two revealed their Dao Integration Realm strength. Shi Hao unleashed a sword strike with Sword Intent Great Perfection, while Shi Xuan calmly prepared to counter it.

• Shi Hao challenged Shi Xuan, and Shi Xuan accepted the duel without involving their families.
• Shi Xuan and Shi Hao released their Dao Integration Realm presences, with Shi Hao revealing a fully developed Saint Physique.
• Shi Hao drew his sword and used Dragon Roars Through the Nine Heavens, turning his Sword Intent into a true dragon.
• Shi Xuan drew his sword and swung casually toward Shi Hao's attack.

Shi Xuan effortlessly broke Shi Hao’s sword intent, then revealed himself as the Land of Slaughter’s Slaughter-Breaking Sword and used his killing intent to deepen Shi Hao’s fear. Shi Hao unleashed his Sha Qi and holy light for another attack as Jin Xi realized Shi Xuan had been the one who saved her.

• Shi Xuan shattered Shi Hao’s full-strength sword strike with an ordinary move and dismissed his abilities.
• Shi Hao, shaken by his defeat and long-standing resentment toward Shi Xuan, summoned Sha Qi and raised his cultivation to Peak Dao Integration.
• Cao Youqian, Xiao Chen, and Qin Qin discussed Shi Hao’s unusual Sha Qi while Chu Feng trusted Shi Xuan to handle the fight.
• Shi Xuan released overwhelming killing intent and said he would deepen Shi Hao’s fear.
• Shi Xuan put on a bronze mask, and the crowd recognized him as the Land of Slaughter’s Slaughter-Breaking Sword.
• Jin Xi realized Shi Xuan had saved her before, while Shi Hao gathered holy light and Sha Qi on his sword and began another strike.

Shi Xuan defeated Shi Hao with the true True Essence of Sword Dao, leaving Northern Abyss unable to pursue its plans for the Northern Wasteland. Qin Qin then challenged the Great Evolution Holy Land’s heaven’s chosen over the destruction of her family and sects, and the chapter ended with the Holy Land’s Saint asking whether Chu Feng would let the juniors settle the grudge themselves.

• Shi Hao’s sword strike failed against Shi Xuan’s True Essence of Sword Dao, and Shi Hao admitted defeat before collapsing into Jin Xi’s arms.
• Shi Xuan returned to the Dao-Seeking Academy’s camp, where he reported to Chu Feng and received praise from his fellow disciples.
• Qin Qin stepped forward to challenge the Great Evolution Holy Land’s heaven’s chosen, asking whether its Dao Integration or Nirvana cultivators would face her together.
• Chu Feng explained that Qin Qin held a personal grudge because the Great Evolution Holy Land’s disciples had killed her family and destroyed several sects she had belonged to.
• The Great Evolution Holy Land’s Saint asked Chu Feng whether he intended to let Qin Qin and the sect’s juniors settle the matter themselves.

At the Ten Saints Grand Competition, Qin Qin killed Yulong Qingfeng in one move after he admitted the Dragon-Taming Clan had preyed on the weak. The Dragon-Taming Noble Family's Holy Son, Yulongzi, then entered the battlefield to face her.

• Chu Feng agreed that the duel would follow the competition's rules, with no consequences pursued afterward, and Great Sage Extreme Yang sent Yulong Qingfeng to fight Qin Qin.
• Yulong Qingfeng admitted the Dragon-Taming Clan had seized what it wanted from the secular world and summoned a Nirvana Realm flood dragon.
• Yulong Qingfeng used Human-Dragon Unity to strengthen the flood dragon and attacked Qin Qin with Furious Sea's Wild Roar.
• Qin Qin stopped the waves with one pluck of her zither, then destroyed Yulong Qingfeng and the flood dragon with a second move.
• Yulongzi rebuked his cousin Yulong Qingtian for lowering his head, told him to be more thorough next time, and stepped onto the battlefield.

Qin Qin and Yulongzi fought over the past attempt to seize her eyes, with the winner deciding Yulong Qingtian’s fate and the loser agreeing to punish the person responsible. Yulongzi conceded after Qin Qin’s World-Destroying Demonic Pupils swallowed his attack, leaving the crowd stunned by her superior comprehension of the True Essence of the Great Dao.

• Yulongzi asked what his younger brother had wanted from Qin Qin, then agreed that Yulong Qingtian would be hers if he lost and the person responsible for the old affair would die if he lost.
• Yulongzi summoned the Dragon-Taming Divine Sword and attacked Qin Qin with Dragon Soars Through the Nine Heavens.
• Qin Qin countered with sonic Sword Qi, and the clash’s smoke cleared to reveal her extraordinary innate abnormal pupils.
• Yulongzi merged the azure flood dragon into his sword, rose to Great Sage strength, and unleashed Dragon Rules the Nine Heavens.
• Qin Qin used World-Destroying Demonic Pupils to swallow Yulongzi’s true dragon manifestation and engulf him in demonic light.
• Yulongzi emerged unharmed but admitted defeat, saying Qin Qin’s comprehension of the True Essence of the Great Dao surpassed his.

Cao Youqian stepped forward for the Dao-Seeking Academy and challenged the gathered holy lands, then faced Buddha Son Moke of the Great Thunderclap Temple. After Cao Youqian withstood Moke’s Buddhist attack unharmed, both revealed their Immortal Physiques and their opposing presences reached a standoff.

• Cao Youqian volunteered to fight first and challenged the other cultivators to face him.
• Buddha Son Moke answered Cao Youqian’s challenge and struck him with Buddha’s Light Shines Everywhere.
• Cao Youqian emerged unharmed and taunted Moke to use a stronger attack.
• Moke revealed his Jin Gang Indestructible Immortal Physique, and Cao Youqian responded by revealing his own Immortal Physique and manifestation.
• Cao Youqian and Moke faced each other as their pressure locked in a standoff over the battlefield.

Cao Youqian defeated Buddha Son Moke with a single punch, then faced Holy Son Yixi and his bloodthirsty Yixi Divine Sword. After dozens of exchanges, their battle paused, leaving the onlookers unsure who had won.

• Moke unleashed Ten Thousand Buddhas Pay Homage, but Cao Youqian shattered the Buddhist seal and Moke's manifestation with his Extreme Dao Divine Fist.
• Moke admitted defeat and left after Cao Youqian acknowledged his strength.
• Holy Son Yixi stepped forward, revealed the Yixi Divine Sword, and said he intended to fight Xiao Chen after testing Cao Youqian.
• Yixi drew his devil sword and transformed amid a blood-red haze, while Cao Youqian expanded his body and displayed many kinds of True Intent.
• Cao Youqian and Yixi traded blows for dozens of exchanges, and the onlookers waited to see who had won.

Cao Youqian defeated Holy Son Yixi with his Peerless Fist and challenged the remaining holy lands’ champions. Wuming arrived to test Xiao Chen, and Cao Youqian prepared to fight him.

• Cao Youqian and Holy Son Yixi exchanged powerful attacks, and Cao Youqian defeated him with the Peerless Fist.
• Yixi accepted his defeat and left, while Cao Youqian called for another opponent.
• Wuming arrived and said he had come to see whether Xiao Chen was truly the Invincible Sword.
• Wuming drew his sword and revealed the presence of Human and Sword Unity, stirring Xiao Chen’s desire to fight him.
• Chu Feng advised Xiao Chen to let Cao Youqian test Wuming, and Xiao Chen agreed to watch.
• Cao Youqian and Wuming prepared to begin their battle.

Cao Youqian defeated Wuming and then overwhelmed the other challengers at the Ten Saints Grand Competition. Great Sage Zhansheng declared him the champion, with no one objecting.

• Wuming and Cao Youqian each used Heaven and Human Unity, dividing control of the Nine Cauldrons Secret Realm before their clash tore open space.
• After they reappeared injured, Wuming conceded defeat, saying Cao Youqian’s body had overcome his swordsmanship, and then collapsed upon returning to his camp.
• Cao Youqian challenged the crowd, defeated Gui Ming with one punch, and bested the other holy land prodigies who came to fight him.
• Cao Youqian returned to the Dao-Seeking Academy’s camp, and Great Sage Zhansheng declared him champion of the Ten Saints Grand Competition.

Chu Feng discussed the Ten Saints Grand Competition’s spoils with the academy head and chose the newly formed Hongyuan Continent for the Dao-Seeking Academy. After the ten holy lands divided the remaining worlds, the Great Sages led their disciples out of the Nine Cauldrons Secret Realm, ending the competition.

• Chu Feng told the academy head he wanted to explore another continent rather than remain at the Dao-Seeking Academy, and received Elder Jin’s jade slip detailing the four worlds.
• After reviewing the information, Chu Feng chose the Hongyuan Continent at the division meeting, despite its dangerous innate beings.
• The other nine holy lands selected the remaining three continents, completing the division of the spoils.
• The ten Great Sages returned to their camps and led their disciples out of the Nine Cauldrons Secret Realm.

After the Ten Saints Grand Competition, Chu Feng prepared to travel to the Hongyuan Continent and establish a Dao-Seeking Academy or sect. He arrived at the Holy Institute with Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian, met Divine King Zhen, and reunited with his master.

• The Dao-Seeking Academy celebrated its first-place finish, and Cao Youqian and Chu Feng received praise from the cultivators and elders.
• Chu Feng studied information about the Hongyuan Continent and, half a year later, received an appointment, resources, a dean's token, and a Great Emperor statue for establishing an academy or sect there.
• Chu Feng took Xiao Chen and Cao Youqian through the teleportation array to the Holy Institute, where Cao Youqian reunited with Great Sage Xuanhuo.
• Great Sage Xuanhuo led Chu Feng and his disciples to meet Divine King Zhen, who welcomed them and invited Chu Feng to stay at the Holy Institute.
• Chu Feng's master appeared in the hall, and Chu Feng and his disciples greeted him.