Recaps

Ao E broke out of an ambush and awakened his bloodline, but Yu Tunzhou overwhelmed him and killed Ao Chen before the Dragon Gate abruptly withdrew Ao E from the trial. Yu Tunzhou then pursued Ji Zhaoxuan, whose companions betrayed and silenced him, and confronted him about Great Yan’s succession plans.

• Ao E led his companions into battle against the warriors surrounding them, killed several enemies, and fought the Lion King and three others.
• When one opponent fled, Ao E’s bloodline memory awakened and he routed the remaining fighters, but Yu Tunzhou descended and beat him into the ground.
• Ao Chen shielded Ao E from Yu Tunzhou’s punches and was killed, while the Dragon Gate suddenly withdrew Ao E from the trial before he could finish saying he would withdraw.
• Yu Tunzhou learned that Yinglong had taken greater notice of him, then resumed his pursuit of Ji Zhaoxuan to question him about the powers behind the Dragon Gate.
• Xiao Yanzhi and Tantai Mingyu attacked Ji Zhaoxuan, temporarily silenced him, and withdrew; Yu Tunzhou knocked Jiang Fengyang aside and demanded to know whether Great Yan planned to replace its crown prince.

Yu Tunzhou tested whether a powerful being protected Ji Zhaoxuan, then continued through the Dragon Gate Contest as his companions withdrew from the blood rain. By the fifteenth blood rain, he encountered An Ruyu and decided to follow her after mistaking her decision to leave him alone for a suspicious plot.

• Yu Tunzhou struck at Ji Zhaoxuan, who escaped with his second edict in a beam of rainbow light, leaving Yu Tunzhou to worry about powerful beings interfering in the contest.
• Yu Tunzhou reunited with Lin Yueheng, but they could not find Dharma Master Jiese or Dharma Master Miedu before they later rejoined Ao Xiyu and Nishang.
• Deng Canglan discussed how people judged good and evil with Jin Buxi and Zhang Buyu, then said the stage was nearing its end and he might not reach its true secret.
• An Ruyu drove off a group of martial artists who recognized her high ranking, then studied the two suns in the sky.
• As the blood rains intensified, Ao Xiyu, Nishang, and Lin Yueheng withdrew one by one, leaving Yu Tunzhou to travel alone toward the divine mountain.
• Yu Tunzhou met An Ruyu during the fifteenth blood rain; when she walked away without approaching him, he suspected a scheme and decided to follow her.

Yu Tunzhou questioned An Ruyu about the powers seeking treasures in the Dragon Gate and learned that the Incense-Smelling Cult had been ordered to claim several hidden legacies. He continued through the blood-rain trial, reached the peak of the second stage of the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art, and discovered a wounded scarlet dragon coiled around the divine mountain.

• Yu Tunzhou confronted An Ruyu, who said the Incense-Smelling Cult sought the Dragon Race’s water fortune and divine weapons, treasures hidden by great powers, and anything left behind by the Human Emperor.
• An Ruyu suggested that a member of the Twelve Mothers belonged to the Supreme Purity Lineage and asked Yu Tunzhou to join her against the other powers at the end of the trial before leaving.
• Yu Tunzhou continued through the blood rains, encountered Niu Tuntian and later Feng Yanleng and Kong Ling, and pressed on alone as the trial grew harsher.
• By the thirtieth blood rain, Yu Tunzhou’s Eight-Nine Mysterious Art had reached the peak of its second stage, and his Indestructible Golden Light had grown exceptionally strong.
• During the thirty-first blood rain, Yu Tunzhou pursued mysterious footsteps, found an ancient Dragon Race skeleton, and emerged near the divine mountain at dawn.
• Yu Tunzhou saw a huge, wounded scarlet dragon coiled around the mountain, recognized its black blood as the source of the black mist, and heard Huntian identify it as Torch Dragon.

Yu Tunzhou studied Torch Dragon’s wounds and scales, gaining insight into how to build his Inner Heaven and Earth and choosing to enter the Dao through Taiji before returning toward Wuji. As the intensified blood rain and black mist forced the other challengers from the trial, Yu Tunzhou’s completed Taiji Diagram dissolved the power of eternal stillness around him.

• Yu Tunzhou and Huntian identified the black wounds on Torch Dragon as a power of eternal stillness that could erase existence, and Yu Tunzhou glimpsed a complete world within one of Torch Dragon’s scales.
• Yu Tunzhou realized he could begin forming his Inner Heaven and Earth by turning his acupoints into grotto-heavens, with his breath and internal Qi circulation serving as Qi veins.
• Yu Tunzhou chose to develop his Dao Embryo through Taiji first and then follow the path back toward Wuji; his Dao Embryo began unfolding the Five Innate Grand Stages.
• The intensified thirty-first blood rain overwhelmed Niu Tuntian’s bloodline manifestation and Huang Tian’s Nine Yang Divine Meridians, forcing both to leave the trial; Kong Ling, Feng Yanleng, and An Ruyu also withdrew.
• As black mist swept toward Yu Tunzhou while he remained immersed in his insight, a living Taiji Diagram appeared around him and dissolved the blood rain and the power of eternal stillness.

Torch Dragon awakened and halted Yu Tunzhou’s Dao Path evolution, then asked him to help the Dragon Race uncover the hidden culprit behind its decline. After Yu Tunzhou agreed and recommended Ao Xiyu, the Dragon Gate rankings placed her first because she had gained the favor of a Daoist School Heavenly Venerable, leaving her bewildered.

• Torch Dragon awakened, stopped Yu Tunzhou’s sudden enlightenment, and promised the trial participants a chance to refine or reconsider their Dao Paths.
• Torch Dragon recognized Yu Tunzhou as Xuandu, learned that he had not known of the old agreement with the Dragon Race, and asked him to help expose the culprit manipulating the Dragon Gate.
• Yu Tunzhou agreed to assist the Dragon Race, recommended Ao Xiyu as a promising dragon, and learned that the next trial would test Dao Paths before the Dragon Gate Contest began.
• The Dragon Gate rankings placed Ao Xiyu first, moving Ao E to third and prompting him to demand an explanation.
• The Ancestral Dragon’s remnant soul explained that Ao Xiyu ranked first because she had gained the favor of a Daoist School Heavenly Venerable, leaving Ao Xiyu confused about who it meant.

Ao Xiyu’s rise in the Dragon Palace stirred speculation about the Dragon Race’s future alliances, while Yu Tunzhou’s prolonged survival secured his lead in the second trial. The third trial began on the Dao Inquiry Platform, where the Stele of the Great Dao showed each contender a vision of their own path, but Yu Tunzhou saw only himself.

• Ao Xiyu learned that a Daoist School Celestial Venerable had taken notice of her, prompting Ao E and the overseas dragons to reconsider what her rise meant for the Dragon Race.
• Niu Tuntian learned that Huang Tian had endured the final trial until the Dragon Gate expelled him, while Yu Tunzhou’s stone step remained empty.
• Xiao Yanzhi prepared the Lesser Three Talents Formation and discussed targeting Yu Tunzhou, as Kong Ling questioned Feng Yanleng about whether he would be their final obstacle.
• Yu Tunzhou returned to the highest stone step, and the Dragon Gate ended the second trial before beginning the Dao Inquiry Platform trial.
• The contestants were seated before the Stele of the Great Dao and saw visions tied to their own Dao Paths, while Yu Tunzhou saw only himself in the stele.

As Great Yan’s political crisis deepened, Kou Ziling confronted Emperor Tianshun and offered himself as Imperial Preceptor. Inside the Dragon Gate, numerous prodigies broke through and manifested their Dao Paths, while Yu Tunzhou’s still-unrevealed Dao began dissolving every other phenomenon into Wuji.

• Feng Xu learned that Lu Daolin had defeated the Incense-Smelling Cult’s guardian heavenly king and was heading toward Shaolin Temple, leaving the Gold-Wielding Guard fearing that he might next challenge the Divine Capital.
• Kou Ziling entered Emperor Tianshun’s forbidden garden, described the emperor’s dwindling support, and offered himself for the vacant post of Imperial Preceptor.
• Wu Xuan and Lin Yueheng manifested their rival Blood River and river-sword Dao Paths, while Jiese, Miedu, Peng Fei, Xuanfa, and a Six-Eared Macaque displayed further breakthroughs on the Dao Inquiry Platform.
• Jin Buxi watched as Young Hero Guo, Kong Ling, Niu Tuntian, Huang Tian, and others revealed extraordinary phenomena, including Deng Canglan’s black-and-gold lotus and Kong Ling’s Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Feng Yanleng chose her saber and sword over her bloodline inheritance, but a human-headed, serpent-bodied phantom embraced both paths and awakened her bloodline further.
• As the third trial neared its end, the other phenomena faded around Yu Tunzhou, whose spreading void dissolved their laws and returned the world to Wuji.

Yu Tunzhou comprehended his Dao Path as “There is no Outer Dao beyond me in heaven and earth,” and formed an incomplete Dao Sprout Immortal Embryo. After the third trial ended and the Dragon Gate Contest began, he turned away from the summit to challenge everyone on the stairway, declaring that anyone who survived his fists could enter the Dragon Gate.

• Yu Tunzhou looked into the Stele of the Great Dao, answered that the Great Dao was within himself, and understood the true form of his Dao Path.
• Yu Tunzhou’s Chaos Dao Embryo transformed into an incomplete Dao Sprout Immortal Embryo, causing heaven and earth to return to Wuji.
• The third trial ended, and the contestants gathered on one broad staircase as they learned that only ten could enter the Eternal Dragon Gate.
• Xiao Yanzhi, Kong Ling, and Jin Buxi each made plans to advance or hinder their rivals during the contest.
• As the Dragon Gate Contest began, Yu Tunzhou turned from the summit and descended the staircase beneath his overwhelming Fist Intent.
• Yu Tunzhou introduced his name to the gathered contestants, challenged them to face the fist technique he had used against the Martial Ancestor, and promised entry to those who survived.

Yu Tunzhou challenged everyone at the Dragon Gate Contest and fought off the strongest contenders while using their attacks to temper his Inner Heaven and Earth. He stood between the gathered fighters and the Dragon Gate, then walked toward them and invited them to attack again.

• Yu Tunzhou declared that anyone who survived his fist could enter the Dragon Gate, and Niu Tuntian charged him first but was sent flying by his fist intent.
• Yu Tunzhou summoned a vast Kunpeng Spirit Aspect that overwhelmed Yuan Liu’s Six-Eared Macaque and disrupted the fighters on the stairs; he then stopped Peng Fei from reaching the Dragon Gate and threw him down.
• Lin Yueheng, Niu Tuntian, and other fighters launched a coordinated assault, but Yu Tunzhou’s new technique, Ranging Freely Across the Eight Extremes, let him counter their attacks while tempering his Inner Heaven and Earth.
• Yu Tunzhou drove back Kong Ling, Yuan Liu, and Huang Tian, breaking Huang Tian’s True Yang Domain with a punch; the battle’s aftershocks forced the other martial artists to retreat.
• Miedu and Kong Ling joined the fight as Yu Tunzhou continued to hold the top of the stairs, while Feng Yanleng and An Ruyu watched and Deng Canglan remained occupied with Jin Buxi.
• Yu Tunzhou withdrew his fist intent and walked toward the gathered enemies, saying that once his flower bloomed, all other flowers would perish.

Yu Tunzhou endured a combined assault, completed the foundation of his Inner Heaven and Earth, and defeated his attackers with a stronger punch. After An Ruyu broke the formation of Xiao Yanzhi and Tantai Mingyu, Yu Tunzhou scattered Tantai Mingyu’s uncontrolled heavenly lightning with a word and turned his attention to An Ruyu, who prepared to reveal a Divine Ability.

• Niu Tuntian, Kong Ling, Daoist Xuanfa, Dharma Master Jiese, and the others attacked Yu Tunzhou, but his Taiji Domain absorbed most of their blows before breaking.
• Yu Tunzhou completed Vast Sea and Azure Deep, formed the Dao Sprout Immortal Embryo, and struck back with a punch that drove his attackers into retreat.
• Xiao Yanzhi, Tantai Mingyu, and a third ally formed the Heaven-Earth-Human Lesser Three Talents Formation and tried to reach the Dragon Gate, but An Ruyu struck the third ally and broke their formation.
• Tantai Mingyu forced her uncontrolled heavenly lightning toward Yu Tunzhou, but he said, “Scatter,” and dispersed the bolt without moving.
• Yu Tunzhou swept aside Xiao Yanzhi’s remaining obstruction and advanced on An Ruyu as she blended into the void and offered to demonstrate a Divine Ability.

An Ruyu used a void-based Divine Ability to send Yu Tunzhou into a nascent world of chaos, but he escaped by wielding the Dao of Wuji. After the Ancestral Dragon’s remnant soul asked him to stop blocking the contestants, the Eternal Dragon Gate announced it would close in one hundred breaths, and the crowd rushed toward it.

• An Ruyu concealed herself in another world and used a finger strike to banish Yu Tunzhou into a world of chaos.
• Yu Tunzhou recognized the chaotic realm, used the Dao of Wuji to tear open a rift, and returned to the staircase.
• An Ruyu conceded to Yu Tunzhou, while the Ancestral Dragon’s remnant soul urged him to let the younger contestants reach the Dragon Gate.
• The Dragon Gate announced it would close in one hundred breaths, and Niu Tuntian led a charge toward it with Peng Fei and Kong Ling following.
• The contestants rushed into action, and several previously unseen figures below the staircase moved toward the Dragon Gate at extraordinary speed.

Yu Tunzhou let the contenders fight for the Dragon Gate while he killed Wu Xuan and warned Lin Yueheng and Jiese that powerful beings awaited inside. After entering, Yu Tunzhou found a vessel made from the Ancestral Dragon’s bones, while the hidden forces behind the contest began to emerge.

• Niu Tuntian, Kong Ling, and Peng Fei fought their way toward the Dragon Gate as Huang Tian charged into the battle, and Yuan Liu slipped away before An Ruyu and Feng Yanleng entered the gate.
• Yu Tunzhou learned that Wu Xuan was a successor of Ancestor Minghe and struck him down after Deng Canglan banished Wu Xuan’s consciousness and seized his blood-colored statue.
• Yu Tunzhou warned Lin Yueheng to stay out of the Dragon Gate, then let Daoist Xuanfa and Miedu enter and cautioned Jiese about the dangers within.
• Jiese told Yu Tunzhou that Xiao Yanzhi and other unfamiliar figures had entered unnoticed, while Xie Linchuan warned him not to go in.
• Yu Tunzhou entered the Dragon Gate and found a vast vessel that recalled Huntian’s secret about the Ancestral Dragon’s bones being made into a boat to ferry the world.

Yu Tunzhou entered the Dragon Gate and uncovered hidden contenders as the Dragon Race tried to identify its enemies. When the Immortals and Gods behind the contenders appeared and fought over the treasures, a powerful Yuxu presence swept the battlefield clean and demanded that everyone withdraw.

• Yu Tunzhou discovered that twelve people had entered the Dragon Gate and learned from the Ancestral Dragon's remnant soul that several participants had concealed identities.
• Xiao Yanzhi demanded forty percent of the treasures for the Heavenly Court, while Yu Tunzhou rejected his offer and attacked him.
• An Ruyu identified the gray-robed man as a Ji Clan candidate, and Yu Tunzhou broke through his Rahu Rebellion-Quelling Cultivated Body.
• The Dragon Gate revealed staircases leading to treasures, including the River Diagram and Luo River Diagram and the Demon-Summoning Banner, prompting the contenders to summon their patrons.
• Kong Xuan, Xuanwu, the Buddha, and the Purple Forbidden Enclosure joined the battle, but a Yuxu power swept away their attacks and struck down Xiao Yanzhi.
• A thunderous voice declared that the world's rare treasures belonged to the virtuous and ordered everyone to withdraw.

Yu Tunzhou used the Dragon Gate world’s power to awaken the Vajra Bracelet and smash the imperial figure’s projection, then destroyed the gray-robed man’s star formation and projection. He turned the bracelet on An Ruyu, who invoked the Primordial Mother, while Kong Xuan urged Xuanwu to join forces.

• Yu Tunzhou entered Unity of Heaven and Celestial Person with the Ancestral Dragon’s help and poured the Dragon Gate’s power into the Vajra Bracelet.
• Yu Tunzhou struck down the imperial figure’s projection with four blows, destroying it after Xiao Yanzhi’s death had severed its anchor.
• Yu Tunzhou smashed through the gray-robed man’s Zhou Heaven Star Battle Grand Formation and struck him down as he tried to flee.
• Yu Tunzhou aimed the Vajra Bracelet at An Ruyu, trapping her in the void; An Ruyu invoked the Primordial Mother.
• Kong Xuan asked Xuanwu to join forces against the Vajra Bracelet, but Xuanwu remained unruffled.

Shouxin received a prophecy that the final tribulation was approaching as Yu Tunzhou fought An Ruyu’s summoned Mothers and joined Xuanwu against Kong Xuan at the Dragon Gate. While the Dragon Race inherited its lost secrets, a sealed tomb stirred and someone inside roared, “Dao Venerable!!!”

• A young Daoist sent Shouxin to deliver a prophecy to the ancestral courts, declaring that the final tribulation was approaching and the Supreme Purity Lineage must emerge.
• An Ruyu summoned several Mothers to protect herself, but Yu Tunzhou shattered their projections with the Vajra Bracelet, forcing her to escape into the void.
• Yu Tunzhou realized the Vajra Bracelet’s power was pushing him toward assimilation by the world’s will, just as Xuanwu intervened to free the Demon-Summoning Banner from Kong Xuan.
• Guangchengzi struck Kong Xuan with the Heaven-Flipping Seal, giving Yu Tunzhou the opening to attack with the Vajra Bracelet and trap Kong Xuan between them.
• The Ancestral Dragon’s remnant soul searched for the mastermind as Ao Xiyu received the Dragon Race’s inherited secrets and Ao Zhen shed a blood-red tear.
• A long-sealed tomb deep within the Dragon Gate began shaking, then fell still before a voice inside roared, “Dao Venerable!!!”

Yu Tunzhou seized the River Diagram and Luo River Diagram, the Demon-Summoning Banner, and the Golden Crow Divine Intent as the Eternal Dragon Gate began to collapse and seal itself. The Azure Emperor blocked the escaping water fortune, Feng Yanleng revealed her divine nature, and Yu Tunzhou learned that Zhang Buyu was tied to the hidden culprit, while An Ruyu quieted the Human Emperor’s mausoleum.

• The Ancestral Dragon’s remnant soul told Yu Tunzhou that a hidden mastermind was stealing the Innate Water Fortune and that Ao Xiyu would lead the Dragon Race descendants sent out of the Dragon Gate.
• Yu Tunzhou used the Vajra Bracelet to suppress the River Diagram and Luo River Diagram, which then entered his Primordial Spirit Heaven and Earth, and he captured the Demon-Summoning Banner.
• Yu Tunzhou used the Vajra Bracelet to suppress the Golden Crow phantom, freeing Huang Tian from the Golden Crow Divine Intent.
• The Ancestral Dragon’s remnant soul warned Yu Tunzhou that Zhang Buyu of Floating Hill Mountain bore traces of the culprit, while Xie Linchuan used his grandmaster’s token to let the Azure Emperor block the water fortune outside the Dragon Gate.
• Feng Yanleng revealed her divine nature and went into the depths of the Dragon Gate with Kong Xuan, while Yu Tunzhou learned that the culprit’s trail led to Zhang Buyu.
• An Ruyu reached the Human Emperor’s mausoleum and touched its stone door, calming the disturbance within; the Daoist wondered who she was and resolved to investigate the Incense-Smelling Cult.

Yu Tunzhou returned from the Dragon Gate with warnings about hidden forces and found Zhang Buyu waiting at the South Sea Dragon Palace. Meanwhile, An Ruyu emerged carrying the Luo River Diagram, Chen Fuyou and Jiang Wenxuan discussed the Northern Dark Sea’s next moves, and Ao Xiyu questioned whether Yu Tunzhou had dragon blood.

• Yu Tunzhou learned from Guangchengzi that an unknown figure had stirred up the Dragon-Phoenix War and the Heavenly Court’s collapse, and that the figure had appeared again at the Dragon Gate.
• The Dragon Gate expelled Yu Tunzhou and the others to the South Sea Dragon Palace, where he noticed Zhang Buyu had also returned.
• Deng Canglan told Miedu that a Buddhist monk had aided him in childhood and that the Future Buddha had sent him to meet a disciple in Luofu Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Fuyou and Jiang Wenxuan discussed the Northern Dark Sea’s defenses, the Xie Household, and the possibility of intervening in the Central Plains, while a powerful presence emerged from the east.
• An Ruyu returned from the Dragon Gate carrying the Luo River Diagram, and Qingxuzi urged her to return to the sect.
• Ao Xiyu asked Yu Tunzhou whether he had dragon blood after revealing that the Ancestral Dragon had instructed her to follow his orders.

Yu Tunzhou returned from the Dragon Gate Contest with the River Diagram and the Demon-Summoning Banner, while the survivors revealed the contest’s heavy casualties and his victory over the strongest fighters. The Dragon Gate’s fallout spread across the Central Plains and overseas, and the chapter ended with the Xiao Household learning that Xiao Yanzhi had died and ordering an investigation into the failed plan.

• Ao Xiyu told the South Sea Dragon King that the Ancestral Dragon had chosen her and that the Dragon Gate’s bloodline inheritance could help the Dragon Race recover, while the returning factions learned of the Dragon Race’s losses and the overseas dragons’ betrayal.
• The External Scenery experts heard that Yu Tunzhou had challenged the strongest fighters and driven them to unite, then watched his unrivaled bearing as he left to cultivate and investigate Zhang Buyu.
• Huang Tian resisted the Golden Crow’s whispers, reaffirmed his path of pure yang, and resolved to surpass ten suns and become the radiant great sun of the heavens.
• Overseas, Kong Ling revealed that Feng Yanleng was carrying Her Majesty Emperor Wa and that the Demon-Summoning Banner had fallen into Central Plains hands.
• Kou Ziling told Emperor Tianshun that the Immortals and Gods’ struggle had ended and that the one behind the emperor had failed, then wondered whether a returned Immortal or God had defeated the Xiao and Tantai Households.
• The Xiao Household learned that Xiao Yanzhi’s life lamp had gone out, and Xiao Wanghe ordered an investigation into his death and the failure of the Emperor Lord’s plan.

Yu Tunzhou refined his understanding of the River Diagram, his Dao Sprout Immortal Embryo, and his transformed Divine Abilities while preparing to develop his Inner Heaven and Earth. Elsewhere, rumors of his victory in the Dragon Gate spread, as Zhang Buyu remained at the Dragon Palace and Jin Buxi was secretly followed.

• Yu Tunzhou discovered that the River Diagram had merged with his Primordial Spirit Heaven and Earth, where Little Black had transformed into a Kunpeng.
• Yu Tunzhou confirmed that his Dao Sprout Immortal Embryo was perfected, clarified his Dao Path as the Outer Dao beyond which there is no self under heaven, and examined his Limitless Gang Qi and natal Divine Abilities.
• Yu Tunzhou found that Taiji Domain could deflect more force and that Swallow the Sun and Refine the Moon could threaten an External Scenery Third Layer expert without first accumulating Grand Yin and Grand Yang Qi.
• Ao Feng warned Zhang Buyu that demonic forces were searching for him and persuaded him to write to the Nanhua Sect while an osprey watched him.
• At a tavern, Jin Buxi confirmed that Yu Tunzhou had suppressed more than a dozen Dao Path manifesters, and Luo Lan publicly defended Yu Tunzhou's victory.
• An agent reported that Jin Buxi and Daoist Mingxin had passed through the area, and his companion ordered him to keep following them to uncover Jin Buxi's role in Great Yan's destruction.

Yu Tunzhou emerged from the Dragon Gate with strength approaching the Earth Ranking, learned of the upheaval facing Great Yan, and set out for Floating Hill Mountain with Zhang Buyu. On the road, demonic-path forces ambushed them, and Yu Tunzhou struck back as a powerful Blood River Dao expert called for Shen You.

• Jin Buxi told Daoist Mingxin that Heavenly Origin Pills were reportedly being sold in Junior Brother Yao's lineage, and Daoist Mingxin ordered him to investigate Tianhe's territory and clear their fellow disciples' names.
• After emerging from seclusion, Yu Tunzhou learned from Ao Feng that half a year had passed and the Martial Ancestor was preparing to enter the Divine Capital to fight the old prince.
• Yu Tunzhou decided to investigate Floating Hill Mountain, learned that the demonic path was searching for him, and asked Zhang Buyu to travel with him to the Eastern Wilderness.
• As Yu Tunzhou and Zhang Buyu left the Dragon Palace, Yu Tunzhou sensed the Heavenly Court Fragment stirring but suppressed its response and continued on their journey.
• Two Half-Step External Scenery attackers from the Heavenly Demon Sect and Blood River Dao ambushed Yu Tunzhou and Zhang Buyu, and Yu Tunzhou crippled them with one stomp.
• Yu Tunzhou threatened the Blood River Dao External Scenery expert who had been waiting ahead, then attacked when the man tried to flee; the expert summoned Shen You for help.

Yu Tunzhou defeated Shen You and killed the Blood River Dao attackers, then faced Xuanyangzi of the Supreme Origin Sect, whose Soul-Summoning Banner he damaged with a powerful Divine Ability. As Xuanyangzi struggled to control the banner’s rebellious spirits, Yu Tunzhou advanced beneath gathering thunderclouds instead of retreating.

• Yu Tunzhou shattered Tao Guan’s defenses, but Shen You arrived and intervened before he could finish the Blood River Dao expert.
• Shen You asked Yu Tunzhou whether his junior brother Deng Canglan was alive, but Yu Tunzhou attacked instead and overcame Shen You’s Seven Killings Sword.
• Yu Tunzhou pursued Shen You, killed Tao Guan on the way, and carried Zhang Buyu away as Xuanyangzi arrived and struck at him.
• Xuanyangzi summoned his Soul-Summoning Banner, but Yu Tunzhou’s black-and-white Divine Ability pierced it and sent its vengeful souls into chaos.
• Yu Tunzhou advanced toward Xuanyangzi while thunderclouds gathered overhead, and Shen You realized the Supreme Origin Sect elder was about to face more than the banner’s Yin clouds.

Yu Tunzhou endured a heavenly tribulation while pursuing Xuanyangzi, whose Spirit Aspect and Soul-Summoning Banner could not protect him from the lightning. After the Supreme Origin Ghost Emperor intervened to help Xuanyangzi survive the final strike, Yu Tunzhou recovered quickly and chased him again, leaving Daoist Qingya and Zhuang Qingping stunned by the sight.

• Yu Tunzhou summoned a heavenly tribulation against Xuanyangzi, who used his Mysterious Yin Guixu Aspect to strike Yu Tunzhou before fleeing with the thunderclouds following them.
• The heavenly lightning struck both men; Yu Tunzhou endured the tribulation while Xuanyangzi's Soul-Summoning Banner was badly damaged and his defenses failed.
• Xuanyangzi called upon the Supreme Origin Ghost Emperor to block the ninth bolt, but the intervention left him gravely injured and angered the patriarch.
• After the tribulation ended, Xuanyangzi fled, and Yu Tunzhou recovered and pursued him, finding that the lightning had strengthened his body and Dao Sprout Immortal Embryo.
• At the foot of Mount Cangwu, Daoist Qingya and Zhuang Qingping saw Yu Tunzhou chasing the battered Xuanyangzi and realized that Yu was the pursuer.

Yu Tunzhou and Daoist Qingya cornered the gravely wounded Xuanyangzi, but a Blood River power revived him after he self-destructed. As a new Blood River Dao Dharma Aspect challenged Yan Huifeng, Shen You left with intelligence about the Blood River’s secret, and Feng Xu prepared to report the events to the emperor.

• Xuanyangzi fled Yu Tunzhou until Daoist Qingya joined the chase, and the two attacked him together.
• A Blood River Dao Dharma Aspect confronted Old Gang Leader Su, then called out Yan Huifeng to fight; Old Gang Leader Su warned him not to attack Yu Tunzhou.
• With Old Gang Leader Su protecting him, Yu Tunzhou and Daoist Qingya overwhelmed Xuanyangzi, who self-destructed after trying to summon the Supreme Origin Ghost Emperor.
• A river of blood swallowed Xuanyangzi’s remains and Primordial Spirit, while Old Gang Leader Su sent Yu Tunzhou to recover and went to watch Yan Huifeng’s battle.
• Shen You recognized the Blood River’s revival power as a likely reason for the Supreme Origin Sect and Blood River Dao alliance, then left to trade his intelligence for information on Deng Canglan.
• Feng Xu read Little Shen’s report on the battle, sent the intelligence to the Star Palace and Jixia Academy for the Three Rankings, and prepared to brief the emperor.

Emperor Tianshun met secretly with Kou Ziling, who sought the imperial family’s cooperation in reclaiming Great Yan’s human Dao fortune. Meanwhile, Yu Tunzhou recovered from his tribulation, learned more about Xue Wuya’s Blood Sea power, and received a life-saving pill from Old Sect Leader Su before setting out to witness the world’s coming chaos.

• Feng Xu reported that Yan Huifeng had kept Xue Wuya suppressed for four days, but Xue Wuya recovered from every attack and Yan had not yet used his immortal sword.
• Emperor Tianshun questioned Feng Xu about the Dharma Aspects and ordered the Star Palace to add the newly ascended expert to the Heaven Ranking and monitor him.
• After Feng Xu left, Kou Ziling met Emperor Tianshun and proposed reclaiming the human Dao fortune held by the old prince, urging the emperor to ask whether he would face the Martial Ancestor with that support or alone.
• Yu Tunzhou restored his Inner Heaven and Earth, formed the third wondrous scenery, and discussed with Great Sage Huntian how his tribulations seemed to scale with his overall strength.
• Old Sect Leader Su told Yu Tunzhou that Xue Wuya drew on the Netherworld Blood Sea, gave him a life-saving pill, and warned that the world was nearing chaos.
• Yu Tunzhou reflected on Great Yan’s threatened fall and went down the mountain to witness the lives and upheavals of the mortal world.

The new rankings crowned Yu Tunzhou first on the Dragon and Tiger Ranking and placed him seventy-second on the Earth Ranking, shocking people throughout the realm. After arriving in Taikang City with Zhang Buyu, Yu Tunzhou found two mysterious messages linking Floating Hill Mountain to the Human Emperor’s death.

• The three rankings were released, naming Yu Tunzhou first on the Dragon and Tiger Ranking and seventy-second on the Earth Ranking, while the Heaven Ranking gained three new names.
• Deng Canglan entered Luofu Grotto-Heaven with the rankings and stunned its guardians with Yu Tunzhou’s achievements.
• Yu Tunzhou and Zhang Buyu reached Taikang City in the Eastern Wilderness and planned to travel onward to Floating Hill Mountain.
• Someone threw a black iron token into Yu Tunzhou’s room, and Yu Tunzhou discovered a hidden note stating that Floating Hill Mountain was connected to the Human Emperor’s death.