Recaps

Miaoyin, Shen Ge, Zhang Lingyu, and Li Liu exchanged gifts, materials, and spirit medicines in the courtyard. After the group parted, Shen Ge went into seclusion to recover from his injury before refining the treasures.

• Miaoyin gave Zhang Lingyu a Water Ridge Branch and Zhang Fengge Azure Sky White Crane wings, then asked Shen Ge to craft a Five Fowl Fan from her rare bird feathers and flood dragon bones.
• Shen Ge sold Zhang Lingyu and Miaoyin batches of low-grade spirit medicines and gave each of them a third-tier spirit medicine.
• Li Liu gave Shen Ge the Spirit Gathering Formation Law Treasure she had made, and Shen Ge passed it to Zhang Fengge and paid Li Liu.
• Zhang Fengge accepted the formation disk after Shen Ge told her to discard it if she did not want it, and he promised to give her another Law Treasure soon.
• After the group said their farewells, Shen Ge went into seclusion to recover from the kick that had left him injured.

Shen Ge began crafting Law Treasures while Su Liuyue tested a repaired teleportation array and arrived in the Yaoguang Sea Area. Unable to contact Shen Ge or find him directly, she decided to use the Zhang Household to make herself known so he might come looking for her.

• Shen Ge finished a pearl Law Treasure for Zhang Fengge and began making Miaoyin's Five Fowl Fan.
• Su Liuyue activated the repaired teleportation array on an island in the South Sea and vanished before the array masters could stop her.
• Su Liuyue arrived at an underwater array in the Yaoguang Sea Area, failed to reach Martial Uncle Fenghuo, and realized she had no way to contact Shen Ge.
• Su Liuyue traveled to Sea Billow Island and learned from a talisman shopkeeper about the Zhang Household and its young lady's talisman master.
• Su Liuyue studied a sea chart, chose the Zhang Household as a way to draw Shen Ge's attention, and began preparing a written challenge.

Zhang Lingyu and Zhang Lingfeng received a challenge from the unknown Golden Core expert Su Liuyue and suspected it was a ploy to build a reputation. Zhang Lingyu prepared for an attack, but Su Liuyue never appeared, leaving the Zhang Household uncertain but relieved.

• Zhang Lingyu read Su Liuyue's letter threatening to attack the Zhang Household in two days and sensed Golden Core Stage Sword Intent.
• Zhang Lingyu and Zhang Lingfeng suspected Su Liuyue wanted to use their household and the Sea Fish Gang to make a name, and Zhu Shen asked Zhang Lingyu to investigate.
• Zhang Lingyu questioned his contacts, including Miaoyin, but nobody knew Su Liuyue or their origins.
• Zhang Lingyu guarded the Zhang Household when the appointed time arrived, but Su Liuyue did not appear, so he returned while remaining cautious.

Shen Ge completed the Five Fowl Fan for Miaoyin and learned that Su Liuyue had appeared in the Yaoguang Sea Area. Suspecting she might be his senior sister, he hurried to Sea Billow Island to find her.

• News of Su Liuyue's challenge and absence spread through the Yaoguang Sea Area, while she waited on Sea Billow Island for Shen Ge.
• Shen Ge finished refining Miaoyin and Gu Ye's supreme-grade Five Fowl Fan as onlookers watched from a distance.
• Miaoyin told Shen Ge that Su Liuyue had challenged the Zhang Household and the Sea Fish Gang but failed to appear.
• Shen Ge wondered whether Su Liuyue was his senior sister and left immediately for Sea Billow Island.

Shen Ge reunited with Su Liuyue on Sea Billow Island and learned that their grandmaster had reached the Spirit Severing Realm and gone to the Heavenly Desolation Domain. Though he agreed to return with her, Shen Ge delayed their departure to handle unfinished business, while Venerable Yaoguang guessed that Shen Ge’s reunion meant they could soon leave their current predicament.

• Shen Ge arrived at Sea Billow Island, where Su Liuyue revealed herself as his senior sister and welcomed him into her courtyard.
• Shen Ge and Su Liuyue exchanged news, and she told him their grandmaster had left for the Heavenly Desolation Domain after reaching the Spirit Severing Realm.
• Shen Ge asked about Martial Uncle Fenghuo and learned that he had become an evil aberration and might be returning to the Heavenly South.
• Shen Ge agreed to go back with Su Liuyue but said he first had a few things to take care of, then gave Zhang Fengge the magic treasure he had refined for her.
• At the secondary teleportation formation, Shen Ge created a paper-figure double to handle his tasks while Su Liuyue guarded him.
• Gu Ye told Venerable Yaoguang about Shen Ge’s reaction to Su Liuyue, and Venerable Yaoguang concluded that they might soon be able to leave.

Shen Ge collected two treasures from each major sect in exchange for the teleportation array’s location, then left after promising that someone would reveal it in a month. Venerable Yaoguang explained that the Heavenly Desolation Domain could offer a path to immortality, and the sect leaders decided to trust Shen Ge rather than risk losing access to the array.

• Shen Ge met Venerable Yaoguang and Miaoyin as an avatar and asked each major sect for two treasures, waiving the payment for Yaoguang Immortal Sect.
• Within ten days, the major sects brought fourteen treasures to Yaoguang Immortal Sect, and Shen Ge said they would learn the array’s location in a month.
• When Venerable Tianquan challenged Shen Ge’s trustworthiness, Shen Ge returned the treasures and revealed that he had found a way to reach the Heavenly Desolation Domain.
• Venerable Yaoguang returned the treasures to Shen Ge and promised that no one would pursue or retaliate against him; Shen Ge then left unchallenged.
• Venerable Yaoguang told the sect leaders that the Heavenly Desolation Domain’s Spiritual Qi could enable Spirit Severing, Tribulation Transcendence, and ascension to immortality.
• Venerable Kaiyang argued against pursuing Shen Ge, and the sect leaders agreed to trust his promise while anticipating that he might demand more for information about the domain.

Shen Ge returned with the Zhang Household to the Luo Heaven Sea, while Venerable Yaoguang and the other sect leaders prepared to evacuate for the Heavenly Desolation Domain. The chapter ended with the sect leaders learning that the Heavenly South still had a Spirit Severing Realm expert and deciding to find Shen Ge as soon as they arrived.

• Shen Ge sent Yaoguang the formation’s location, then returned to the underwater cave and left with Su Liuyue and the Zhang Household after Zhang Lingyu supplied the Spirit Stones.
• Venerable Tianquan and the others reached the formation, while Venerable Yaoguang stayed behind to organize the evacuation and entrusted him with Spirit Stones for Kaiyang’s junior brother.
• Venerable Yaoguang arranged for sect disciples to spread cultivation methods among mortals and helped select two hundred thousand people with cultivation talent, though the sects could evacuate only fifty thousand.
• Venerable Tianquan questioned Yaoguang’s delay, and Kaiyang defended his efforts to make arrangements for the mortals left behind.
• Venerable Tianshu reported that the Heavenly South’s top experts had gone to the Heavenly Desolation Domain, but a newly ascended Spirit Severing Realm emperor remained there.
• Venerable Kaiyang decided the group should seek Shen Ge upon arrival and then proceed directly to the Heavenly Desolation Domain.

Shen Ge returned to the Spirit Moon Sect and let his grief over Mu Wan pour out before visiting the Mountain-Viewing Pavilion. He reunited with Su Sui, gave her a treasured sword, and resumed teasing her as they found their familiar closeness again.

• At the sect gate, Su Liuyue urged Shen Ge to face his memories and turn his grief into motivation to become an immortal who could revive Mu Wan.
• Shen Ge entered the sect and spent hours walking through it, overwhelmed by memories and longing for Mu Wan.
• Su Sui, Lu Xiu, Wang Yan, Jin Ling, and Chu He each saw Shen Ge, while Lu Xiu explained that releasing his emotions could prevent them from building into a dangerous force.
• The next morning, Shen Ge sat alone in the Mountain-Viewing Pavilion where he had once spent time with Mu Wan.
• Su Sui joined Shen Ge, and he praised her Golden Core cultivation before giving her an ice-crystal longsword that suited her Sword Dao.
• Shen Ge and Su Sui traded teasing remarks, and their familiar, affectionate master-disciple bond returned.

Venerable Yaoguang and the other Luo Heaven Sea cultivators evacuated to the Heavenly South, leaving Liu Zongyuan behind and bringing mortals who were assigned local guardians. In Phoenix City, Song Junjie demanded fourth-tier items and cultivation methods from the visiting sects in exchange for passage to the Heavenly Desolation Domain.

• Venerable Yaoguang led the cultivators and mortals through the formation, while Liu Zongyuan stayed behind to watch over the Luo Heaven Sea; Yaoguang had destroyed the formation but secretly spread its foundation-building method as a treasure rumor.
• Venerable Kaiyang asked the Heavenly South’s ruler to settle the mortals, and the arriving group escorted the cultivators and their ships toward Phoenix City.
• The sect leaders rested in a palace side hall while the other cultivators camped outside the city, and Shen Ge welcomed Miaoyin, Gu Ye, Li Liu, Zhang Lingyu, and others to a restaurant.
• Song Junjie visited the sect leaders and demanded five fourth-tier items from each household, along with some cultivation methods, as payment for revealing the route to the Heavenly Desolation Domain.

Yaoguang and the others paid Song Junjie’s toll, while Han Yu sorted the supplies sent by the Imperial Preceptor and summoned Shen Ge. Shen Ge declined to join Han Yu’s expedition, saying he would wait until he reached the Nascent Soul Realm, then took the spirit medicines and left.

• Yaoguang rebuked Venerable Tianquan for complaining after they paid the toll and received a meal.
• Han Yu kept thirty percent of the spirit medicines from the Storage Bag and set aside the rest for the Spirit Moon Sect.
• Song Junjie summoned Shen Ge to see Han Yu, and Shen Ge left his companions in Su Sui’s care.
• Han Yu asked Shen Ge whether he would join the expedition, but he declined until after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Shen Ge finished his tea, took the spirit medicines from the table, and left.

The Luo Heaven Sea group and other cultivators prepared to leave the Heavenly South as Han Yu broke open the array on the Ice and Snow Plateau. Shen Ge parted from Zhang Lingyu and Miaoyin, then reunited with Li Xue, who joined the departing travelers.

• Miaoyin visited the Hall of Heroic Spirits with Lu Xiu and left a wooden carving before Mu Wan’s grave.
• Han Yu used a phoenix attack to shatter a large section of the array, allowing the cultivators to pass through.
• Zhang Lingyu and Miaoyin said goodbye to Shen Ge and promised to meet him again in the Heavenly Desolation Domain.
• Li Xue arrived at the array, accepted a flying sword and shield from Shen Ge, and left with the others.
• Shen Ge asked Zhang Lingyu and Miaoyin to help Li Xue if she encountered danger, and Zhang Lingyu agreed before departing.

After bidding farewell to Li Liu, Shen Ge returned to the Spirit Moon Sect and entered seclusion, while the Eagle King broke through to the Spirit Severing Realm. The Eagle King killed and devoured the Primordial Serpent, then set out for the seven great islands as the Luo Heaven Sea’s humans faced an uncertain and seemingly hopeless future.

• Shen Ge asked Li Liu where she would go, and she left to travel around the Heavenly South; he then returned to the Spirit Moon Sect and entered seclusion.
• The Eagle King emerged on a deserted island beyond the Luo Heaven Sea as a Spirit Severing cultivator and tested his power, destroying islands with a wind blade.
• The Eagle King found the Primordial Serpent during its attempt to become a Fifth-Tier Demon Beast and attacked it with a storm of Gang winds.
• The Eagle King crushed the Primordial Serpent’s head, destroyed its soul, and revealed that he had previously let it escape as blood food.
• The Eagle King devoured the Primordial Serpent and headed toward the seven great islands, leaving the humans of the Luo Heaven Sea facing a dark future.

After decades of seclusion, Shen Ge began his Nascent Soul breakthrough, drawing a powerful lightning tribulation that his yin-yang diagram started to absorb. As the tribulation escalated, a lightning White Tiger descended toward him.

• Ao Xi approached the mainland but returned to the sea with her father when he told her the grand elder was looking for her.
• Su Sui, Lu Xiu, and Zhang Fengge waited anxiously through Shen Ge's long seclusion, while Demon Kings later left the Heavenly South with many Demon Beasts.
• After another fifty years, black and white Qi rose from Shen Ge's retreat and formed a yin-yang diagram as his breakthrough began.
• Mo Qingyu, Chu He, Jin Ling, Su Liuyue, Wang Yan, and others withdrew to safety as Shen Ge's lightning tribulation gathered overhead.
• The yin-yang diagram ground a dragon-shaped bolt of lightning into power, but the tribulation sent a massive lightning White Tiger crashing down toward Shen Ge.

Shen Ge endured a series of increasingly deadly lightning tribulations as he formed his Nascent Soul, using his treasures, the Samsara Method, and his sword to survive. The chapter ended with him splitting a massive lightning pillar and the clouds above with a single strike, leaving Mo Qingyu stunned.

• Shen Ge shattered the White Tiger lightning tribulation with a sword strike, while Wang Yan, Su Liuyue, and Mo Qingyu sensed the terrifying power of his Samsara Method.
• Shen Ge endured an azure lightning bolt and three heavenly blades, but the final blade damaged his treasures and nearly cleaved him in two.
• Shen Ge narrowly escaped the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning, which struck the mountain and sheared off its peak.
• Two lightning tribulations merged into a massive pillar, prompting Mo Qingyu to move to save Shen Ge as the others feared he would die.
• Shen Ge unleashed a profound power through the Morning Longing Sword and split the lightning pillar and the dark clouds, astonishing Mo Qingyu.

After breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm, Shen Ge reassured Mo Qingyu that his devastating sword strike came from the Samsara Method and celebrated with his disciples. He gave Mo Qingyu a wisp of his divine soul and the Life and Death Instruction, then went to help his senior sister seek a breakthrough.

• Mo Qingyu worried that Shen Ge's sword strike meant he had been possessed, but Shen Ge told her it was a secret method from the Samsara Method.
• Su Sui, Lu Xiu, and Zhang Fengge congratulated Shen Ge, who gave them fourth-tier spirit medicines and sent them off to cultivate.
• Shen Ge gave Mo Qingyu a wisp of his divine soul and explained that he had not learned the Samsara Method at White Bone Mountain.
• Shen Ge gave Mo Qingyu the Life and Death Instruction and warned her not to cultivate it too deeply because its creator might have left it as bait.
• Shen Ge explained that Bai Lili could cultivate the other half of the Samsara Method, then went to help his senior sister, who had reached the peak of the Golden Core realm, pursue a breakthrough.

Shen Ge entered seclusion while several groups struggled across the Ice and Snow Plateau and emerged into a vast mountain forest. After the groups joined forces, Xuanguang killed Venerable Tianquan to enforce his authority, and Zi Nü took a little girl from the Kaiyang Sect.

• Shen Ge collected slivers of several acquaintances' divine souls and entered seclusion to separate offensive techniques from the Samsara Method.
• Luo Heaven Sea's remaining cultivators and another group led by Xuanguang continued their dangerous journeys across the Ice and Snow Plateau, while Bai Lili concealed her Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Daoist Qingguang led his group over a glacial cliff and down through the clouds into a vast forest, where they settled to recover and grow stronger.
• Yaoguang's group arrived less than three years later, and the two groups joined forces to cross the mountain forest.
• Xuanguang killed Venerable Tianquan after Tianquan and Zi Nü clashed, warning Luo Heaven Sea's cultivators to obey him.
• Zi Nü took a little girl from the Kaiyang Sect's group and then caused them no further trouble.

After thirty years, Su Liuyue passed her heavenly tribulation and formed her Nascent Soul, while Shen Ge continued to draw heaven’s attention. He later taught newly adapted techniques and spent the following years cultivating and studying arrays as his sect’s disciples advanced.

• The Eagle King slaughtered most of the Luo Heaven Sea’s human population after discovering that Yaoguang’s old allies had escaped through a teleportation array, then tortured Liu Zongyuan for information.
• Su Liuyue used fourth-tier pills refined with Wang Yan’s help to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm and face a heavenly tribulation.
• The heavenly tribulation destroyed Su Liuyue’s Heaven and Earth Cauldron and injured her, but she survived its final strike; lightning also targeted Shen Ge when he returned to the Spirit Moon Sect.
• Shen Ge taught his companions the adapted techniques Destruction Sword Qi and Annihilation Millstone, then spent ten years teaching, cultivating, and studying arrays.
• Su Sui reached Late Golden Core, Lu Xiu and Zhang Fengge remained at Middle Golden Core, Wang Yan reached Golden Core Peak, and Chu He, Jin Ling, and Qingfeng reached Late Golden Core.

Shen Ge prepared to leave the Heavenly South, entrusting the Spirit Moon Sect to Han Yu and inviting Li Liu to join his group. After Han Yu opened the formation, Shen Ge and his companions left the Heavenly South and began their dangerous journey onward.

• Shen Ge asked Han Yu to protect the Spirit Moon Sect, offered to take her with them, and received a request to revive her and her sister if he ever became an immortal.
• Shen Ge found Li Liu in Qingniao Valley, and she agreed to leave the Heavenly South with him.
• Shen Ge and Li Liu returned to the Spirit Moon Sect, where Wang Yan and the others finished arranging the sect's affairs and entrusted it to a new-generation disciple.
• Han Yu greeted the departing group at Phoenix City and broke the formation at the Ice and Snow Plateau with a single strike.
• Shen Ge and his companions bid farewell to Han Yu and left through the cave entrance, while Han Yu remained behind in the wind and snow.
• Shen Ge's group began their journey onward, relying on a concealment formation to avoid danger.

Shen Ge and his companions crossed the forest and learned that a group led by three Spirit Severing Realm experts had left the Thousand Hills Mountain Range fifty years earlier. They reached Thousand Hills Town, paid for temporary identity tokens, and entered the city to seek information at the Heavenly Knowledge Pavilion.

• Shen Ge and his companions survived encounters with Demon Beasts and left the icy region after seventy years without casualties.
• Shen Ge questioned a Golden Core old farmer, who told him that a murderous group led by three Spirit Severing Realm experts had left the mountains about fifty years earlier and gone separate ways in Thousand Hills Town.
• Shen Ge and his companions followed the farmer's directions and found the enormous Thousand Hills Town, where flight was prohibited.
• Shen Ge paid for temporary identity tokens for the group after learning that entry without residence tokens cost five hundred low-grade Spirit Stones per person.
• Shen Ge and his companions entered the city's inner district and went to the Heavenly Knowledge Pavilion to gather information.

Li Liu left Shen Ge and the Spirit Moon Sect members, who rented a courtyard and discussed how to establish themselves in the Heavenly Desolation Domain. Shen Ge chose the Vast Distant Mountain Range as their next destination, and he and Su Liuyue went to investigate local missions and prices.

• Li Liu declined Shen Ge's offer to travel together and departed after the meal.
• Shen Ge and the others rented a courtyard, then reviewed information about the Ancient Wilderness and its major forces.
• Mo Qingyu proposed establishing another Spirit Moon Sect, and Shen Ge suggested they first live as Rogue Cultivators and later build their own sect.
• Shen Ge chose the Vast Distant Mountain Range as a place to gather resources, while the others focused on cultivation and addressed their shortage of Spirit Stones.
• Shen Ge and Su Liuyue headed to the town's mission center to learn about available work and local prices.

Shen Ge and his companions left Thousand Hills Town to claim a remote cultivation site with two small Spirit Veins, then Shen Ge returned to town to collect a reward for killing two wanted Devil Cultivators. As he headed for the gates, he encountered a crowd welcoming Fairy Yuxin, whose strength impressed him.

• Shen Ge and Su Liuyue decided the city’s expenses were too high and left with their companions to find a place to cultivate.
• After three months, they settled in a scenic area about three hundred thousand li from Thousand Hills Town, killed the two Devil Cultivators occupying it, and began establishing a camp.
• Shen Ge went back to Thousand Hills Town and received five thousand five hundred Spirit Stones for the heads of Li Hei and Li Yuan.
• Shen Ge noticed envious onlookers at the reward counter but left without reacting, confident that few people could kill him easily.
• A crowd gathered to welcome Fairy Yuxin, and Shen Ge watched her approach on a powerful, flame-wreathed horse before deciding her affairs did not concern him.

Li Yuxin noticed Shen Ge’s talent and offered him a place as her follower in the Heavenly Sword Sect, but he fled rather than risk exposing his Samsara Method. Soon afterward, five masked cultivators ambushed him, and their leader attacked with a mass of ghost-filled devilish mist.

• Li Yuxin sensed Shen Ge’s extraordinary talent and asked him to follow her, but he was too startled to answer.
• Shen Ge learned that Li Yuxin was a powerful Heavenly Sword Sect disciple, then fled thirty thousand li to avoid her offer and protect the Samsara Method.
• Five masked cultivators ambushed Shen Ge, but he had been prepared and escaped injury.
• The attackers trapped Shen Ge and the surrounding peaks in a formation, while three Golden Core cultivators withdrew to guard it.
• Shen Ge drew the Morning Longing Sword and spread his sword wings as the Nascent Soul Middle Stage leader sent ghost-filled devilish mist surging toward him.

Shen Ge defeated a Nascent Soul Early Stage Devil Cultivator, escaped the surviving cultivator, and returned to Azure Moon Mountain with a formation and spoils. Li Yuxin’s split soul, who had been tracking him, approached Shen Ge and his companions to question them.

• Shen Ge used his sword formation and soul power to cripple a Nascent Soul Early Stage Devil Cultivator, while the Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator fled and the Golden Core Peak cultivators abandoned them.
• Shen Ge dismantled the trapping formation, collected the defeated cultivator’s Storage Bag and body, and returned to Azure Moon Mountain.
• Li Yuxin’s split soul watched Shen Ge and noticed the gathered cultivators’ rare Spirit Roots and possible connection to a sect.
• Li Yuxin descended to meet Shen Ge, Mo Qingyu, and Su Liuyue, and asked them to answer some questions.
• Shen Ge shaped a stone table and stools with Sword Intent, and Li Yuxin served the group Drifting Snow Tea and spirit fruits.

Li Yuxin questioned Shen Ge, Mo Qingyu, and Su Liuyue about their origins and demanded that they either follow her or return with her to her sect. Su Liuyue and Wang Yan agreed to go with Li Yuxin, while Shen Ge fled with the furious Mo Qingyu.

• Shen Ge told Li Yuxin that he and his companions came from Heavenly South and belonged to the Spirit Moon Sect.
• Li Yuxin questioned them about their connections to the group that had appeared fifty years earlier, then offered them the choice of following her or returning to her sect.
• Su Liuyue offered to follow Li Yuxin if she would leave Shen Ge and Mo Qingyu behind.
• Mo Qingyu struck at the stone table, but Shen Ge blocked her hand and killing intent before fleeing with her.
• Su Liuyue asked Li Yuxin to spare the others, and Li Yuxin summoned Wang Yan and declared that Su Liuyue and Wang Yan would follow her.

After Su Liuyue and Wang Yan were taken away by Li Yuxin, Shen Ge and his companions returned to cultivation, recognizing their weakness had left them vulnerable. Meanwhile, Ziyang and the other leaders began organizing the Myriad Stars Sect in the Rock Moon region and faced the challenge of gaining permission to establish themselves.

• Mo Qingyu vowed to someday enter the Heavenly Sword Sect and beat the woman who had taken Su Liuyue and Wang Yan, while Shen Ge promised to go with her to rescue them.
• Shen Ge blamed himself for the senior sisters' departure, then returned to his cave abode to cultivate as his companions also withdrew to cultivate.
• Ziyang heard reports that the Myriad Stars Sect's new territory had nearby rivals, limited resources, and fell under the authority of the Hundred Refinements Sect.
• Ziyang met with Fang Ding, Wan Xiao, Li Xueying, and Hanyue, and the leaders went inside to discuss the sect's many problems.