Recaps

Yu Tunzhou followed a cryptic warning about Zhang Buyu back to Floating Hill Mountain, where he and Zhang set out for White Dragon Pass. Meanwhile, Floating Hill Mountain’s elders weighed the danger posed by Yu Tunzhou and their plans for the immortal cauldron, while Jin Buxi sought permission to approach it.

• Yu Tunzhou gave Zhang Buyu a guest elder token and a letter warning that returning to Floating Hill Mountain was dangerous, and Zhang recognized the handwriting as Jin Buxi’s.
• Zhang Buyu inferred that Jin Buxi wanted him to go to the market at White Dragon Pass, and Yu Tunzhou agreed to escort him there that night.
• Floating Hill Mountain’s elders discussed Zhang Buyu’s return, their dealings with the Xie Household, and the risk of provoking Yu Tunzhou; their senior elder ordered them to avoid acting rashly.
• Jin Buxi asked Daoist Shouzheng for permission to seek the immortal cauldron’s recognition, and his master agreed.
• Jin Buxi went to the temple holding Floating Hill Mountain’s ancient immortal weapon, which no cultivator of the sect had ever gained recognition from.

Jin Buxi failed to win the Immortal Cauldron’s support, so he resolved to expose the forbidden Heavenly Origin Pill scheme and investigate Three Autumns City with Daoist Mingxin. Meanwhile, Yu Tunzhou took Zhang Buyu to White Dragon Pass, where they began examining the circumstances of Yao Liang’s death.

• Jin Buxi invoked the Human Emperor Seal before the Immortal Cauldron, but its artifact spirit rejected him and said it would help only when the Immortal Dao truly awakened.
• Jin Buxi left the temple determined to bring Floating Hill Mountain’s hidden wrongdoing into the open, while an old man watched him from the forest.
• Yu Tunzhou and Zhang Buyu escaped Taikang City before Jinghu arrived to escort them, and Daoist Mingxin learned they had disappeared.
• Jin Buxi rang the Heavenly Bell, accused someone in the sect of using the forbidden Heavenly Origin Pill Formula, and set off with Daoist Mingxin to investigate Three Autumns City.
• Zhang Buyu told Yu Tunzhou that Deng Canglan had hinted Yao Liang secretly ate people, and the pair reached White Dragon Pass to investigate why Yao Liang had traveled there.

Yu Tunzhou and Zhang Buyu infiltrated White Dragon Pass to investigate Yao Liang, only to discover he had been killed by Deng Canglan and that the Five Rivers Chamber of Commerce mistook Zhang Buyu for a Reincarnated Spirit Physique. Nan Guan negotiated to buy Zhang Buyu, while Yu Tunzhou sensed an ancient presence hidden beneath the market.

• Yu Tunzhou and Zhang Buyu disguised themselves and entered White Dragon Pass’s black market, where Yu Tunzhou drew attention by attacking a stall owner.
• Nan Guan brought Yu Tunzhou and Zhang Buyu underground and revealed that Yao Liang had been dead for more than half a year, killed by Deng Canglan of the Heavenly Demon Sect.
• Nan Guan mistook Zhang Buyu for a valuable Reincarnated Spirit Physique and offered Yu Tunzhou ten Primordial Pills for him, arranging a transaction in three days.
• After Yu Tunzhou and Zhang Buyu were escorted to a guest chamber, Nan Guan told Zhao Xuan that he planned to investigate them further and seize Zhang Buyu if possible.
• Yu Tunzhou told Zhang Buyu that he sensed an obscure, ancient presence underground, reminiscent of the Immortals and Gods who had descended at the Dragon Gate.

Yu Tunzhou discovered that the Five Rivers Chamber of Commerce had imprisoned martial artists and was opening a rift to contact Primordial Immortals and Gods. After Nan Guan exposed Yu Tunzhou’s presence and ordered his men to seize him, Yu Tunzhou revealed overwhelming power and confronted Nan Guan and Zhao Xuan.

• Nan Guan reported Lu’s claim about Yao Liang and the reincarnated spirit body to his superiors, then rushed out after hearing that the ritual had gone wrong.
• Yu Tunzhou cultivated in the secret chamber as providence from the rankings nourished his Dao Sprout Immortal Embryo and loosened his bottleneck.
• Yu Tunzhou left the chamber when the hidden presence of Immortals and Gods grew turbulent, found imprisoned government prisoners and Pine Mountain Sect disciples, and learned from Guo Feng that the Chamber of Commerce had used them to refine demonic pills.
• Yu Tunzhou followed the presence underground and found Nan Guan and Zhao Xuan suppressing a rift that connected to Primordial Immortals and Gods.
• Nan Guan bluffed until Yu Tunzhou revealed himself, then ordered his men to seize him, but Yu Tunzhou killed the advancing Divine Ability martial artists with an invisible force and covered the hall with his shadow.

Yu Tunzhou defeated Zhao Xuan at the Five Rivers Chamber of Commerce’s underground branch and forced Nan Guan to reveal the history of the Nether Passage Rift. Nan Guan explained why the sect had targeted Guo Feng’s group, and Zhang Buyu was left shaken by the revelation that their junior sister’s bloodline was used to refine a Heavenly Origin Pill.

• Yu Tunzhou defeated Zhao Xuan, identified himself to Nan Guan, and made Nan Guan agree to disclose what he knew in exchange for a difficult choice.
• In Three Autumns City, Daoist Mingxin told Jin Buxi how Floating Hill Mountain moved to the Eastern Wilderness and worked with other righteous factions to drive out wicked-path followers.
• Nan Guan explained to Zhang Buyu and the others that the Eastern Wilderness contained ancient battlefield ruins and gateways to the Immortal Realm, including the Nether Passage at White Dragon Pass.
• Nan Guan revealed that Guo Feng and his five fellow disciples carried ancient immortal and god bloodlines that drew fallen immortals toward the gateways.
• Nan Guan said their youngest junior sister’s bloodline could be used to refine a Heavenly Origin Pill that would quiet the fallen immortal for three months, and Zhang Buyu asked him to repeat the name of the pill.

Yu Tunzhou uncovered the Five Rivers Chamber of Commerce’s use of the Heavenly Origin Pill to suppress gateways and condemned its leaders for disguising other crimes as sacrifice for the Eastern Wilderness. After learning that a captive martial artist had been sent to Jade Lion City, he left with Zhang Buyu while Zhao Xuan was left crippled.

• Nan Guan explained that Floating Hill Mountain had used the Heavenly Origin Pill to extract bloodlines and suppress nine growing gateways, and that Guo Feng’s junior sister was being refined into a pill.
• Yu Tunzhou questioned Nan Guan’s motives, concluded that the group was concealing a greater plan, and restrained him after Nan Guan’s silence suggested they had also refined people without Immortal or God bloodlines.
• Yu Tunzhou took Nan Guan and Zhang Buyu to inspect the closed gateway, then questioned the captured Zhao Xuan about the pills and the Five Rivers Chamber of Commerce.
• Zhao Xuan revealed that the Pine Mountain Sect martial artist had been sent to Jade Lion City, and that blood sacrifices could keep the gateway quiet for about a month.
• Yu Tunzhou crippled Zhao Xuan after he refused to answer several questions, then left the cavern with Nan Guan and Zhang Buyu.

Yu Tunzhou uncovered the Yao Household’s human sacrifices for refining Heavenly Origin Pills and destroyed its Alchemy Chamber. He then faced Yao Qingyan in Jade Lion City, where his second Swallow the Sun and Refine the Moon began consuming the elder’s Spirit Aspect.

• Yu Tunzhou told Zhang Buyu that Nan Guan’s claims would not shake his Dao heart and argued that the Heavenly Origin Pill scheme served the conspirators’ interests.
• Yu Tunzhou looted the Five Rivers Chamber of Commerce branch, found a Heavenly Origin Pill, and set off with Zhang Buyu for Jade Lion City.
• Yao Chongshan and Xiao Zheng inspected the Yao Household’s Alchemy Chamber, where blood from captive descendants of Fallen Immortals was used to refine pills.
• Yu Tunzhou revealed himself in the chamber and annihilated its furnaces, attendants, and captives with Wuji chaos, leaving a deep crater in the Yao residence.
• Yao Qingyan attacked Yu Tunzhou with his white jade lion Spirit Aspect, but Yu Tunzhou’s Swallow the Sun and Refine the Moon dissolved it as the dark sun spread over Jade Lion City.

Yu Tunzhou destroyed the Yao Household’s ancestral grounds and killed its elder after uncovering its role in refining Heavenly Origin Pills, then set out to investigate the other portals to the Immortal Realm. In Three Autumns City, Jin Buxi confronted Daoist Mingxin over Floating Hill Mountain’s willingness to sacrifice people, and Mingxin warned that Yu Tunzhou and Zhang Buyu were in danger.

• Yu Tunzhou’s Black Sun devoured much of the Yao estate, and Yao Qingyan used the Yao Household’s Nine Origins bloodline ability to halt it briefly.
• Yu Tunzhou unleashed a third Black Sun, killed Yao Qingyan, Yao Chongshan, and Xiao Zheng, then left Jade Lion City with Nan Guan.
• Yu Tunzhou sent Zhang Buyu toward White Water Mountain and demanded that Nan Guan reveal the locations of the other portals to the Immortal Realm.
• A hidden observer reported to his sect that the Yao Household’s ancestral grounds had been destroyed and that Yu Tunzhou’s Divine Ability might involve the Great Dao of Limitlessness.
• Jin Buxi rejected Daoist Mingxin’s defense of sacrificing people with immortal and god bloodlines, and Mingxin warned that Jin had endangered Yu Tunzhou and Zhang Buyu by involving them.

After Yu Tunzhou destroyed the Jade Lion Yao Household’s ancestral grounds and killed its elders, the Yao and Nan households branded him a demonic villain and mobilized the Eastern Wilderness to hunt him. Yu Tunzhou entered Fallen Soul Ravine with Nan Guan as his guide and encountered a guarded passage, hoping the site’s leakage of immortal power would answer his questions.

• Daoist Mingxin told Jin Buxi that Yu Tunzhou had destroyed the Yao Household’s ancestral grounds and killed Yao Qingyan, then predicted that Yu Tunzhou was finished.
• Yao Baimei learned that the Yao Household had been devastated and left Floating Hill Mountain with his killing intent rising.
• Yao Qingli persuaded Shen Ce to leave seclusion by telling him that Lu Huaiqing had died and Yu Tunzhou was his successor who had fallen to the demonic path.
• Yao Qingfeng and Nan Zhongwei agreed to hunt Yu Tunzhou, issue a bounty, and spread the claim that he had become a demonic villain.
• Feng Xu reported Yu Tunzhou’s actions to the old prince, who declined to send help and told him to keep watch on the Xiao Household.
• Yu Tunzhou forced Nan Guan to guide him into Fallen Soul Ravine, where a voice ordered them to leave the forbidden passage.

Yu Tunzhou discovered that the aristocratic clans had left the portals at Fallen Soul Ravine dangerously undermanned, then awakened a Human Emperor Secret Method that let him absorb the Fallen Immortals’ presence. As his new power began to ignite, Lin Yueheng and Daoist Xuanfa agreed to confront the External Scenery experts hunting him.

• Yu Tunzhou captured the guards at the hidden stronghold and learned that the portals had erupted, Heavenly Origin Pills had run short, and the External Scenery guards had left.
• Yu Tunzhou accused the aristocratic clans of hoarding pills and using the portals to pressure Daoist Shouzheng, then entered the cavern and found two rifts filled with the presence of Fallen Immortals.
• Huntian identified a being behind a rift as a subordinate god of the Thunder Ministry who recognized the Human Emperor, and Yu Tunzhou realized the Fallen Immortals might be gods defeated and exiled by the Human Emperor.
• Yu Tunzhou’s fragment revealed a Human Emperor Secret Method; he combined it with the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art, his Kunpeng Primordial Spirit, and his pure fist intention to absorb the turbid Qi and kindle a flame in his Dantian.
• As External Scenery experts summoned by the Yao Household flew through a border city to hunt Yu Tunzhou, Lin Yueheng met Daoist Xuanfa and agreed to take on one pursuer each.

An Ruyu killed Yao Qianhe at the Yao Household ruins, while the Yao and Nan Households assembled a large force to hunt Yu Tunzhou. Yu Tunzhou mastered the Human Emperor’s method for breaking Immortal Dao arts and began fighting the pursuers at Fallen Soul Ravine, where he vowed to kill them first.

• Yao Qianhe returned to the ruined Yao Household grounds, where An Ruyu trapped and killed him with the Divine Descent Technique.
• Nan Songhe, Zhou Chong, and Liu Fengxian encountered Huang Tian, who attacked them with a blazing domain and forced them from the sky.
• Liaochen told Shen Ce that Xuanku and Daoist Shouxin had entrusted him with protecting Yu Tunzhou, and Shen Ce abandoned the hunt to accompany him.
• Yu Tunzhou mastered the Human Emperor’s One Qi Breaks Ten Thousand Methods, which absorbed the chaotic power around the Immortals and Gods Portals.
• Yao Qingfeng and another Yao Household vassal confronted Yu Tunzhou at Fallen Soul Ravine; Yu Tunzhou killed the vassal and challenged the assembled hunters to fight.

Yu Tunzhou killed Yao Qingfeng and continued toward Cangling City, while the Yao-Nan alliance suffered mounting losses and Nan Feng's group investigated the unexplained halt in the portals' invasion. The chapter left Nan Feng ordering a full search for Yu Tunzhou as the alliance's hunt slipped out of control.

• Yao Qingfeng fled from Yu Tunzhou and begged Yao Qingli and Shen Ce for help, but Yao Qingli abandoned him and escaped in another direction.
• Yu Tunzhou broke Yao Qingfeng's nine-headed lion Divine Ability with One Qi Breaks Ten Thousand Methods and killed him, bringing the alliance's deaths to three External Scenery experts.
• Lin Yueheng and Daoist Xuanfa killed two more External Scenery experts, then saw An Ruyu carrying a severed head and suspected she was heading toward Yu Tunzhou.
• Huang Tian killed three External Scenery experts but struggled to suppress the Golden Crow Divine Intent in his mind, while Yu Tunzhou decided to raid the Nan Household at Cangling City.
• Nan Feng arrived at Fallen Soul Ravine, found Yao Qingfeng and another expert dead, and learned that the portals' invasion had halted despite the lack of a sealed formation.
• Nan Feng ordered her companions to contact the Yao Household and search for Yu Tunzhou, believing he could reveal what had happened at Fallen Soul Ravine.

Nan Zhongwei decided to reinforce the hunt for Yu Tunzhou as the Nan Household lost contact with its External Scenery experts. Yu Tunzhou entered Cangling City with Lin Yueheng and Daoist Xuanfa, and An Ruyu revealed that she knew about the Devil Lord behind the Nan Household and the Human Emperor beneath Floating Hill Mountain.

• Nan Zhongwei told the Nan Household elders that the life lamps of the missing hunters might be unreliable and ordered guest elders and vassal clans to join the hunt for Yu Tunzhou in exchange for Heavenly Origin Pills.
• Yu Tunzhou reached Cangling City with the captive Nan Guan, questioned him about the immortal god portals and Floating Hill Mountain, then slipped into the city alone.
• Lin Yueheng and Daoist Xuanfa met Yu Tunzhou in Cangling City and joined him in raiding the Nan Household estate after revealing they had followed An Ruyu there.
• Yu Tunzhou explained the Nan and Yao households' Heavenly Origin Pill practices to Lin Yueheng and Daoist Xuanfa, and the three found An Ruyu outside a pavilion guarded by the will of immortals and gods.
• An Ruyu presented Yu Tunzhou with a severed head and said she had come because she feared for his safety, then asked whether he meant the Devil Lord behind the Nan Household or the Human Emperor suppressed beneath Floating Hill Mountain.

An Ruyu revealed that one of the Human Emperor’s Three Corpses was suppressed beneath Floating Hill Mountain and proposed working with Yu Tunzhou to counter the Eastern Wilderness crisis. After Yu Tunzhou and his allies attacked the Nan Household to sever its connection to the Nine Netherworlds, the group split up to address the remaining threats; meanwhile, Huang Tian faced another fight, and Zhang Buyu encountered a waiting Daoist at White Water Mountain.

• An Ruyu explained that the Human Emperor had failed to sever his Three Corpses using a method left by the Dao Venerable, and that one corpse was suppressed beneath Floating Hill Mountain beside an Immortal Cauldron.
• An Ruyu offered to help Yu Tunzhou relieve pressure on the Immortals and Gods Portals, and Yu Tunzhou shared One Qi Breaks Ten Thousand Methods with Lin Yueheng and Xuanfa before they agreed on a plan.
• Yu Tunzhou, An Ruyu, Lin Yueheng, and Xuanfa attacked the Nan Household estate, where Yu Tunzhou and Xuanfa summoned lightning that struck the Pill Tower and severed the household’s connection to the Nine Netherworlds.
• Lin Yueheng and Xuanfa left to suppress four portals, while Yu Tunzhou and An Ruyu departed to find Zhang Buyu; Nan Zhongwei watched them escape as his household fell into chaos.
• Huang Tian ignored the Golden Crow Divine Intent’s offer of a Divine Ability and charged toward three approaching External Scenery fighters despite his exhaustion.
• Zhang Buyu returned to White Water Mountain and headed toward a peak behind the Daoist temple, where a young Daoist called him Junior Brother and said he had been waiting.

Zhang Buyu learned that Floating Hill Mountain planned to use his Reincarnated Spirit Physique to reincarnate the Immortal Cauldron’s spirit, while Patriarch Zhenyan intervened as Yao Baimei tried to abduct him. Yu Tunzhou and An Ruyu reached Floating Hill Mountain, where a powerful Daoist nun blocked their way.

• Nan Zhao confronted Zhang Buyu at White Water Mountain and demanded that he return to the Nan Household, but Zhao Antong arrived to escort him away.
• Nan Zhao summoned Yao Baimei, who seized Zhang Buyu and Zhao Antong, but Patriarch Zhenyan folded space and separated them before inviting Zhang Buyu to walk with him.
• Daoist Mingxin revealed to Jin Buxi that Zhang Buyu’s Reincarnated Spirit Physique could let the Immortal Cauldron’s spirit reincarnate free of the world’s Great Dao suppression.
• Patriarch Zhenyan told Zhang Buyu that the Immortals and Gods Portal was only the beginning of Floating Hill Mountain’s troubles, then sensed another portal raging within the sect.
• Yu Tunzhou and An Ruyu discussed the Heavenly Court ruins, the wider crises facing the Central Plains, and An Ruyu’s desire to see one of the Human Emperor’s Three Corpses.
• A white-haired Daoist nun at least at the External Scenery Fourth Layer blocked Yu Tunzhou and An Ruyu from entering Floating Hill Mountain.

An Ruyu revealed the Incense-Smelling Cult’s connection to the Human Emperor and gained entry to Floating Hill Mountain alongside Yu Tunzhou, whose seal fragment proved to be the true Heaven and Earth, Mountains and Rivers Seal. At the mountain, An Ruyu described a disastrous future for the Eastern Wilderness and revealed that Yu Tunzhou was not part of the future she had seen.

• Shouguan initially barred An Ruyu and Yu Tunzhou from entering Floating Hill Mountain, but An Ruyu displayed the Human Emperor Seal and summoned the Azure Clouds Primordial Sovereign, prompting Shouzheng to let her in.
• Yu Tunzhou’s seal fragment emerged and resonated with a presence inside Floating Hill Mountain, revealing itself as the true Heaven and Earth, Mountains and Rivers Seal; Shouguan then agreed to take both visitors to Grand Martial Uncle Zhenyan.
• Zhenyan sent Zhang Buyu into the temple to seek the immortal cauldron’s recognition after it resonated with Yu Tunzhou’s seal.
• An Ruyu told Zhenyan that their allies were addressing the threatened gateways and that they had temporarily severed the Nan Household’s connection to the Nine Netherworlds.
• An Ruyu revealed the Luo River Diagram, prompting Huntian and the River Diagram to react, and then described a future in which the Human Emperor’s three corpses ran rampant and the Nan Household conquered the Eastern Wilderness.
• An Ruyu said she was present in the future she had seen, but Yu Tunzhou was not.

An Ruyu revealed that Floating Hill Mountain’s plans could not avert the destined descent of the Devil Lord and upheaval of the Human Emperor’s Three Corpses, so Yu Tunzhou and An Ruyu were sent to persuade the Immortal Cauldron to act. The chapter ended with Yu Tunzhou suspecting that the gateway to the Human Emperor’s realm held the key to controlling the cauldron.

• An Ruyu told Daoist Zhenyan that Yu Tunzhou was a variable, but the Devil Lord’s descent and the Three Corpses’ upheaval were destined outcomes that Floating Hill Mountain could not prevent by changing its plans.
• An Ruyu explained that the Immortal Cauldron could suppress the Devil Lord but would not necessarily obey Floating Hill Mountain, and that waiting for its spirit to reincarnate into Zhang Buyu would take too long.
• Daoist Zhenyan agreed to let Yu Tunzhou and An Ruyu enter the temple to try to persuade the Immortal Cauldron, while warning that the Devil Lord could descend within a day or two.
• Daoist Zhenyan visited Daoist Shouzheng, who urged him to keep moving forward and offered to receive Yu Tunzhou and An Ruyu if the cauldron would not satisfy them.
• Yu Tunzhou asked An Ruyu whether Nether Passage and the gateway to the Human Emperor’s realm were the key to controlling the Immortal Cauldron.

Yu Tunzhou and An Ruyu confronted the Immortal Cauldron and learned it refused to help Floating Hill Mountain, while Daoist Shouzheng used the Luo River Diagram to delay the Human Emperor's Three Corpses and injure himself. As the Nan Household prepared to summon the Devil Lord, a majestic presence stirred behind the sealed gate, leaving Yu Tunzhou wondering whether the Human Emperor's Three Corpses had awakened.

• Nan Zhongwei convinced Nan Feng to summon the Devil Lord if Floating Hill Mountain had abandoned the Nan Household, and Nan Guan's bloodline later surged with demonic power.
• The Immortal Cauldron offered Zhang Buyu its intervention in exchange for control of his body for thirty years, but rejected Yu Tunzhou and An Ruyu's appeals and declared it had its own mission.
• Daoist Shouzheng unleashed the Luo River Diagram's Eight Trigrams formation over Floating Hill Mountain and the Nan Household, then withdrew it after Nan Feng was injured and ordered the blood formation activated.
• A withered hand reached through the Immortal Realm gate to attack Daoist Shouzheng, but the Luo River Diagram diverted it into the sealing platform beneath his cottage, delaying the Three Corpses' rampage.
• Huntian advised Yu Tunzhou to use the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art to persuade or frighten the Immortal Cauldron, while Yu Tunzhou sensed a majestic presence rising from behind the sealed formation.

Yu Tunzhou and An Ruyu awakened the Benevolent Corpse beneath Floating Hill Mountain, which passed on the method for wielding the Three Rankings of Heaven, Earth, and Man. As the Nan Household prepared the descent of the Six Desires Devil Lord, Yu Tunzhou drew on the Dragon and Tiger Ranking's fortune to advance his cultivation and stirred the Immortal Cauldron.

• An Ruyu used One Qi Breaks Ten Thousand Methods and the Investiture of the Gods fragment to awaken the Benevolent Corpse and suppress the Malevolent Corpse briefly.
• Daoist Shouzheng told Old Daoist Zhenyan that the complete Three Corpses Dao fruit lay beneath Floating Hill Mountain, and that the Obsession Corpse had escaped two hundred years earlier.
• The Benevolent Corpse passed An Ruyu and Yu Tunzhou the method for wielding the Three Rankings of Heaven, Earth, and Man, and Yu Tunzhou learned that An Ruyu could not use the Three Corpses to find the Human Emperor's Immortal Realm.
• Yu Tunzhou learned from Daoist Shouzheng that the Devil Lord's power would reach Cangling City within a day, then drew on the Dragon and Tiger Ranking's fortune to advance toward the Middle Divine Ability Stage.
• The Immortal Cauldron stirred when it sensed the Root of the Great Dao within Yu Tunzhou's Dao foundation.
• Nan Zhongwei ordered the Nan Household to sacrifice hundreds of Alchemists and pill apprentices as blood candles, and the household's descendants invoked the Six Desires Devil Lord as a fissure to the Nine Netherworlds opened.

Yu Tunzhou opened his fourth inner-world wonder and sensed a path to Xuandu Heaven before confronting Floating Hill Mountain’s immortal cauldron. As the Devil Lord’s presence spread across the Eastern Wilderness, Yu used the Immortal Qi of Dao and Virtue to suppress the cauldron and lift it with one arm.

• Ao Ming ordered the East Sea Dragon Palace’s texts, Spirit Veins, and treasures prepared for relocation if Floating Hill Mountain fell.
• Jiese, Lin Yue, and Huang Tian suppressed the unrest at their gateways as a sinister presence swept toward Cangling City, and the Golden Crow urged Huang Tian to refine his gateway.
• Shouguan brought Zhang Buyu to Floating Hill Mountain, where Zhang offered to let the ancestral artifact possess him, but Shouzheng sent him to see Yu Tunzhou instead.
• Shouzheng and An Ruyu suspected that Zhang Buyu and the ancestral artifact were caught in a hidden scheme, and Shouzheng vowed to face the primordial Devil Lord while Yu sought a way to break the deadlock.
• Yu Tunzhou opened Radiance of Moon and Sun as his fourth wonder, formed a cycle within his inner world, and opened a gateway toward Xuandu Heaven.
• Yu Tunzhou attacked the immortal cauldron, used Immortal Qi of Dao and Virtue to halt its power, and lifted it with one arm as Zhang Buyu watched.

Nan Zhongwei, empowered by the Devil Lord, nearly overwhelmed Daoist Shouzheng as the Nine Netherworlds rift expanded over Cangling. Yu Tunzhou arrived carrying the Immortal Cauldron, decapitated Nan Zhongwei, destroyed Cangling City, and brought the cauldron down on the rift.

• Nan Zhongwei fought Daoist Shouzheng with the Devil Lord’s Six Desires Devil Flame, forcing him onto the defensive as the rift spread devil Qi across Cangling.
• Shouzheng revealed the history and struggles of the Eastern Wilderness within his Dharma Aspect and used his Martial Dao to withstand Nan Zhongwei’s attack, then punched him apart.
• The Nan Household sacrificed many of its members to stabilize the rift, while Nan Zhongwei regenerated and resumed attacking Shouzheng.
• Yu Tunzhou carried the Immortal Cauldron from the Daoist temple after claiming the identity of Xuandu and agreeing to confront the Devil Lord.
• Yu Tunzhou used the cauldron to decapitate Nan Zhongwei and smash Cangling City into ash, then struck the rift as its vertical pupil reacted with anger.

Yu Tunzhou used the Immortal Cauldron to destroy the Nan Household and stop the Devil Lord’s attempt to descend, while a mysterious saber strike severed the passage to the Nine Netherworlds. Back at Floating Hill Mountain, Zhang Buyu encountered his returned master, Daoist Long Yan, whose unfamiliar regretful expression left him wary.

• The Devil Lord sacrificed the Nan Household’s descendants to strengthen the rift, and Shouzheng killed Nan Zhongwei after witnessing the clan’s destruction.
• Yu Tunzhou used the Immortal Cauldron to defeat Nan Feng and capture the true dragon spirit she summoned.
• The Devil Lord withdrew his power from Nan Feng, then reached through the rift and attacked Yu Tunzhou with a great hand.
• A mysterious saber strike severed the passage to the Nine Netherworlds, allowing the Immortal Cauldron to strike the rift and drive the Devil Lord back.
• Zhang Buyu left the Daoist temple and found Daoist Long Yan waiting outside, but his master’s regretful expression made him instinctively wary.

Yu Tunzhou drove back the Devil Lord with the Immortal Cauldron, while Daoist Zhenyan and Shouguan uncovered that Long Yan had secretly manipulated Floating Hill Mountain’s memories for decades. Long Yan tried to take Zhang Buyu away, but Yu Tunzhou returned with the cauldron and began crushing him under its power.

• The Immortal Cauldron suppressed the devilish Qi at Cangling, and old Daoist Zhenyan explained its power and incomplete state to Shouguan.
• Old Daoist Zhenyan questioned Shouguan about Long Yan, and she realized that she could not recall his master or much of his past.
• Daoist Long Yan told Zhang Buyu about the Human Emperor’s followers and revealed that Sage Emperor Yu had been cultivated as the Human Emperor’s heir.
• Daoist Shouzheng confronted Long Yan, identified his connection to the Taicang Long Clan, and learned that Long Yan intended to take Zhang Buyu away.
• Yu Tunzhou arrived above Floating Hill Mountain on the Immortal Cauldron, sealed the area, and challenged Long Yan to surrender or be suppressed.
• Yu Tunzhou questioned Long Yan about the person behind him and the Dragon Race’s old acquaintance, then used the Immortal Cauldron to crush Long Yan beneath its pressure.

Yu Tunzhou defeated Long Yan, survived a hidden attack from the Six Souls Banner, and learned that a powerful mastermind remained behind the Taicang Long Clan. After arranging for Zhang Buyu to stay at Floating Hill Mountain, he proposed spreading the Human Emperor’s Martial Dao throughout the Eastern Wilderness, prompting the Immortal Cauldron to ask whether the age of Redefining Dao and Virtue had begun.

• Yu Tunzhou used the Immortal Cauldron to subdue Long Yan, who killed himself after warning that they would meet again and sent a faint message west before dying.
• Yu Tunzhou tried to search Long Yan’s remains, triggering a vast attack from the Six Souls Banner, but the River Diagram within his Primordial Spirit Heaven and Earth dispersed it while Huntian seized Long Yan’s fragments.
• The Immortal Cauldron identified the Six Souls Banner as belonging to the Supreme Purity Lineage and revealed that it held the Human Dao Fortune entrusted to it by the Human Emperor.
• Daoist Shouzheng agreed to take Zhang Buyu as his disciple and examine him for hidden contingencies, while Yu Tunzhou told Zhang that Long Yan was probably still alive.
• Yu Tunzhou proposed inviting the other Immortals and Gods Portal defenders to Floating Hill Mountain and spreading the Human Emperor’s Martial Dao throughout the Eastern Wilderness; the Immortal Cauldron asked whether he represented the Daode Lineage in an age of Redefining Dao and Virtue.
• At the Eastern Wilderness border, Huang Tian suppressed the portal and decided to visit Yu Tunzhou, carrying his patriarch’s demand that Yu either return his share of Martial Fortune to heaven and earth or absorb it all.

Yu Tunzhou completed his fifth wondrous scenery and agreed with Floating Hill Mountain to spread the Great Spirit Courtyard method, challenging the Martial Dao monopoly as a great upheaval approached. He then learned that Buddha Son Dingguang had encountered trouble in the Luofu Grotto-Heaven and decided to return there after finishing matters in the Eastern Wilderness.

• Yu Tunzhou completed Star River Descending into the World as his fifth wondrous scenery and considered how his path might relate to the Daode Lineage’s power to redefine Dao and Virtue.
• Daoist Zhenyan and Shouzheng discussed the karmic consequences facing Floating Hill Mountain and the upheaval that Yu Tunzhou’s plan to spread martial arts could cause.
• Shouzheng explained that Yu Tunzhou’s improved Great Spirit Courtyard method could let ordinary people build martial foundations without relying on sects or Aristocratic Clans.
• Yu Tunzhou argued that the Human Race’s survival mattered more than preserving the clans’ monopoly, and Shouzheng agreed that Floating Hill Mountain would help spread the method in the Eastern Wilderness.
• Yu Tunzhou met Lin Yueheng and Dharma Master Jiese, who told him that Buddha Son Dingguang had possibly run into trouble in the Luofu Grotto-Heaven.
• Yu Tunzhou decided to return to the Luofu Grotto-Heaven after completing his work in the Eastern Wilderness.