Recaps

Shen Ge defeated the thunder dragon with the power of Ghost Gate Pass, but the battle left him gravely injured. Li Xue took him away to recover, while Bai Lili sensed his presence in Azure Origin City and vowed to seek him out again.

• Shen Ge summoned a giant black hand and struck the thunder dragon with a sword, slicing off part of its tail before attacking again with a destructive yin-yang millstone.
• The thunder dragon collided with the millstone in a blinding explosion, and Shen Ge fell from the sky, badly injured but alive.
• Li Xue caught Shen Ge and carried him away through the array after Xu Wei told her not to disturb him.
• Venerable Thunder Sea wondered whether Shen Ge's strange cultivation method and Ghost Gate Pass were connected to reincarnation and Venerable Reincarnation.
• Bai Lili sensed a presence connected to reincarnation, realized Shen Ge was nearby, and promised to find him and defeat him again.

Shen Ge awakened after Xu Wei and Li Xue helped him recover, leaving his old body behind as an external avatar named Shen Linfeng. After reuniting with Li Xue and learning news about the Myriad Stars Sect and Lü Yang, he asked Xu Wei about White Dragon City and the Xinlan Sword.

• Shen Ge woke up and separated from his withered body, which revived as his external avatar.
• Shen Ge and his avatar, who called himself Shen Linfeng, bantered while Li Xue struggled to adjust to their identical presence.
• Shen Ge thanked Li Xue and Xu Wei for helping him, while Xu Wei asked whether he considered Li Xue unsuitable for him.
• Li Xue told Shen Ge that the Myriad Stars Sect had six people in the Spirit Severing Realm and that Lü Yang had become the dao companion of the Xue Household head's thirteenth legitimate daughter.
• Shen Ge asked Xu Wei what White Dragon City was and whether it had caused the old man to abandon his attack because of the Xinlan Sword.

Shen Linfeng told Li Xue that he was an independent version of Shen Ge, and they discussed his feelings about Mu Wan and his past. Meanwhile, Shen Ge headed to the Myriad Stars Sect to settle old scores, while Ziyang persuaded Xuanguang to leave rather than face him.

• Shen Linfeng explained to Li Xue that he could survive independently from Shen Ge, though he was weaker and still shared Shen Ge's feelings about Mu Wan.
• Li Xue asked Shen Linfeng about his past, and he began telling her about the childhood of the deceased Shen Ge.
• Shen Ge formed a new body and entered a teleportation array bound for the Myriad Stars Sect to settle matters there.
• Xuanguang waited in the sect with four ancient bronze lamps, while Ziyang urged him to flee before Shen Ge arrived to kill him.
• Ziyang reminded Xuanguang that Fenghuo had died after helping him and Junior Sister avoid a clash with Shen Ge, and Xuanguang finally agreed to leave.

Shen Ge arrived at the Myriad Stars Sect and confronted Ziyang over Xuanguang’s departure, then attacked him. The sect’s experts joined forces against Shen Ge, but he fought back with his Yin spirit powers and Morning Longing Sword as the battle escalated.

• Shen Ge reached the Myriad Stars Sect and silently examined four bronze lamps in the Spirit Moon courtyard while Ziyang and the other Spirit Severing Realm experts gathered.
• Shen Ge asked Ziyang where Xuanguang had gone, rejected his apology, and accused him of unfairness for letting Xuanguang leave.
• Shen Ge attacked Ziyang with a Yin-Yang Millstone, forcing Ziyang to defend himself to protect the disciples below.
• Qingguang, Liyue, Ye Xingchen, and Meng Yan joined the fight against Shen Ge after he warned them to stay out of it.
• Meng Yan unleashed a storm of lightning against Shen Ge, who cut through it with the Morning Longing Sword and challenged him to continue fighting.

Shen Ge fought five Spirit Severing opponents at the Myriad Stars Sect and began to falter after Meng Yan wounded him. A powerful sword strike opened an escape route, and Su Liuyue appeared to defend Shen Ge as her junior brother.

• Meng Yan intensified his golden lightning after Shen Ge injured him, while Ye Xingchen and High Person Liyue continued fighting alongside the others.
• Hanyue and High Person Liyue discussed why Shen Ge had turned against the sect, suspecting Xuanguang’s breakthrough and the death of Qingyou’s junior.
• Meng Yan struck Shen Ge from behind, and Ziyang, Ye Xingchen, Daoist Qingguang, and High Person Liyue attacked the opening.
• A domineering sword strike forced Hanyue and Daoist Qingguang to break away, allowing Shen Ge to block Meng Yan’s and Ziyang’s attacks and evade Ye Xingchen’s wood dragon.
• Daoist Qingguang and Hanyue stopped the sword strike, and Su Liuyue appeared before the sect masters and challenged them for bullying her junior brother.

Shen Ge attacked the Myriad Stars Sect to draw out the person he sought, fighting Ziyang while Su Liuyue held off Meng Yan and Hanyue. After Shen Ge unleashed the Ghost Gate Pass’s flames on the sect, Ziyang revealed why he had remained loyal to his master and began dissolving his own soul to trade his life for the master’s.

• Su Liuyue stopped Meng Yan’s lightning and fought him, later facing pressure when Hanyue joined the battle.
• Shen Ge fought Ziyang while Ye Xingchen tried to protect both men, then took a severe wound from Shen Ge’s sword and withdrew from the fight.
• Shen Ge summoned the Ghost Gate Pass and unleashed cyan flames across the sect, forcing High Person Liyue, Hanyue, and Ye Xingchen to block the spreading fire.
• Shen Ge approached Ziyang through the flames, and Ziyang explained that his master had saved and raised him after famine and plague destroyed his family.
• Ziyang began dissolving his soul, offering his life in exchange for his master’s and asking Shen Ge to stop.

Ziyang chose death rather than betray his master, and Shen Ge restrained the enraged elders of Spirit Moon Sect. Shen Ge then fought the sect leaders while Su Liuyue held off the others, determined to wait for Mu Wan’s return and kill him if he came back.

• Ziyang died before Shen Ge could stop him, and the elders of Spirit Moon Sect caught his body as the formation they had prepared took effect too late.
• Shen Ge restrained the former elders on Spirit Moon Peak, including Shangguan Ouyang, and declared that Ziyang’s death would not save his master.
• Shen Ge told Su Liuyue that he would spread the word and wait for Mu Wan to return, while she agreed to respect Sect Master Martial Uncle’s choice.
• Liyue, Daoist Qingguang, Ye Xingchen, Meng Yan, and the others attacked Shen Ge, and Su Liuyue took on the three sect masters.
• Shen Ge used Ghost Gate Pass to evade Meng Yan and Ye Xingchen’s attacks, then sent a giant sword of black Qi toward them as Su Liuyue held off Liyue and the other two.

Shen Ge pursued Xuanguang to avenge Mu Wan, while Xuanguang blamed Shen Ge for Ziyang’s death and fought him in the mountains. Su Liuyue faced Ye Xingchen, Meng Yan, Hanyue, and the other sect leaders as they moved to help Xuanguang.

• Hanyue halted the battle at the Myriad Stars Sect, and Shen Ge vanished before Su Liuyue and the others followed.
• Shen Ge and Xuanguang clashed in a barren mountain, where Shen Ge cut Xuanguang in half at the waist.
• Xuanguang blamed Shen Ge for Ziyang’s death and resumed fighting him, while Su Liuyue watched from a distant mountaintop.
• Ye Xingchen tried to intervene, but Su Liuyue stopped him, prompting him to challenge her with his Wood Spirit Domain.
• Meng Yan and the three sect leaders joined Ye Xingchen and confronted Su Liuyue, who drew her golden greatsword and invited all five to attack together.

Shen Ge killed Xuanguang, but felt no joy in his revenge and resolved to find Mu Wan through reincarnation. After Su Liuyue recovered Mu Wan’s soul lamp and parted from Shen Ge, their master Mo Qingyu chose not to go to the Myriad Stars Sect, where she might have to fight her disciples.

• Shen Ge pursued Xuanguang and destroyed his body and soul, ending the battle.
• Su Liuyue forced the spiritual power from her body to heal her injuries, and Daoist Qingguang and the other fighters left.
• Su Liuyue asked Shen Ge if he regretted his revenge, and he said he did not believe in reincarnation but was reincarnation and would find Mu Wan.
• Su Liuyue recovered Mu Wan’s extinguished soul lamp from Xuanguang’s Storage Bag and gave it to Shen Ge.
• Shen Ge and Su Liuyue discussed the Ancient Wilderness and their master before Shen Ge left to handle other matters.
• Mo Qingyu waited near the Myriad Stars Sect, then vanished rather than face the prospect of fighting her two disciples.

Song Junjie led the survivors from Heavenly South to Thousand Hills Town after their journey cost half the group their lives. Meanwhile, Shen Ge exchanged the Record of Exotic Beasts with Bai Wushuang for information about evil demons and a route to the Netherworld Domain.

• Song Junjie asked the survivors whether they would split up, and they chose to follow him; Ao Xi also stayed with them for safety.
• Song Junjie’s group reached Thousand Hills Town after more than half a month, having lost half their remaining members to attacks drawn by the battered ship.
• Fairy Qingyu met Bai Wushuang at the Luan Bird Forest, and Shen Ge arrived to hand over the Record of Exotic Beasts.
• Shen Ge asked Bai Wushuang about evil demons and the Netherworld, and Bai Wushuang explained their origins and named several dangerous locations.
• Bai Wushuang gave Shen Ge a scroll showing how to reach a teleportation array connecting the Netherworld Domain and Heaven’s Edge Domain, then drew three protective talismans from the book and gave them to him.

Bai Wushuang and Fairy Qingyu discussed the strange presence around a junior who had asked about the Land of the Netherworld, while Venerable Reincarnation took over Purple Eyes' body. In Thousand Hills Town, the Li Household decided to fight the Wang Household over its seized Spirit Stone vein, and the two sides agreed to battle outside town.

• Bai Wushuang and Fairy Qingyu observed that the junior's unusual presence appeared after his breakthrough and speculated that his cultivation method was responsible.
• Venerable Reincarnation overcame Purple Eyes and took control of her body, intending to use it as his eyes and ears before discarding it.
• Li Household members argued over the Wang Household's seizure of their Spirit Stone vein and blamed Li Yuan's daughter for bringing trouble upon them.
• The Li Household's old ancestor declared that they would fight, and the Li Household vanished before he struck at the Wang Household's ancestral grounds.
• An elder from the Wang Household blocked the old ancestor's attack with sword light, and both sides agreed to fight outside Thousand Hills Town.

The Wang Household patriarch joined Mo Qingyu and Su Liuyue in defeating the Li Household patriarch, while Shen Ge set out for the Chaos and Separation Plains and Meng Yan and Ye Xingchen considered leaving their sects. In the Fallen Devil Ravine, Su Sui and Zhang Fengge clashed with Blood Devil Grotto cultivators as Lü Yang and Lu Xiu were ambushed, leaving Lü Yang facing the enemy he recognized as Corpse Soul.

• The Wang Household patriarch enlisted Mo Qingyu and Su Liuyue to fight the Li Household patriarch, and the three grievously wounded him after a month-long battle.
• A black-marked woman and her companion drained dozens of corpses near Origin Exchange Mountain before disappearing as black smoke.
• Shen Ge decided to travel to the Chaos and Separation Plains to visit Lü Yang and his disciples.
• Meng Yan parted ways with his master Zhu Nian, and Ye Xingchen discussed with Daoist Qingguang whether to leave the Myriad Stars Sect.
• Su Sui and Zhang Fengge confronted Blood Devil Grotto cultivators transporting children through the Fallen Devil Ravine, and Su Liuyue recognized Zi Qi among them.
• Three Peak Nascent Soul cultivators ambushed Lü Yang and Lu Xiu; as Lu Xiu fled for help, Lü Yang recognized one attacker as Corpse Soul.

Shen Ge rescued Lü Yang, Lu Xiu, Su Sui, Zhang Fengge, and more than a hundred children from their attackers. After Zhang Fengge chose to take the children in, the group reunited and left, while the Blood Devil Grotto learned that Corpse Soul and the others had died and ordered its members to lie low.

• Corpse Soul and his junior brother overwhelmed Lü Yang, but Shen Ge arrived, shattered their attacks, and pulled the fleeing cultivators back.
• Shen Ge rescued Lu Xiu and killed the three men attacking Su Sui and Zhang Fengge with a slash of sword light.
• Shen Ge suggested sending the children to a nearby town or taking them in, and Zhang Fengge chose to adopt them.
• Su Sui and Lu Xiu told Shen Ge they feared Zhang Fengge had lost her desire to cultivate, but Shen Ge said her aspirations were her own.
• Lü Yang reunited with Shen Ge, and the group left together to celebrate over drinks.
• The Blood Devil Grotto learned that Corpse Soul and the others' soul lamps had gone out, and its sect master ordered everyone to keep a low profile.

Shen Ge entered the Yellow Wind Sands to find the Land of the Nine Netherworlds and question its fiends about reincarnation. He met the powerful ghost-path entity Lan Yu, brought her through Ghost Gate Pass, and began drawing the cavern’s Yin souls into it.

• Three years after leaving Su Sui, Shen Ge entered an underground cavern beneath the Yellow Wind Sands to search for the Land of the Nine Netherworlds.
• Shen Ge sensed a powerful presence and realized it had kept him circling nearby, so he approached it rather than trying to flee.
• A mysterious ghost-path senior appeared, recognized that Shen Ge was connected to a thunderclap of rule power, and discussed reincarnation with him.
• Shen Ge opened Ghost Gate Pass, and the senior entered, revealing her name as Lan Yu.
• Shen Ge expanded Ghost Gate Pass to draw the cavern’s Yin souls inside.

Shen Ge searched for clues about the world and Mu Wan’s resurrection before meeting Zhu Xiu in Desert Wind City. Zhu Xiu invited him into the newly opened wind cavern, where the two headed toward a secret realm connected to the Underworld.

• Shen Ge found nothing unusual in the underground cavern, then visited a temple in the Yellow Wind Sands and questioned an old monk about the Buddha.
• Shen Ge considered whether Buddhism in this world was connected to another world, but remained focused on resurrecting Mu Wan.
• Zhu Xiu met Shen Ge in Desert Wind City and invited him to enter the Underworld through the wind cavern to seek the Three Lives Flower and a senior’s lifebound Law Treasure.
• Shen Ge agreed, and he and Zhu Xiu waited nearly a month for the wind cavern to open.
• When the cavern opened, Shen Ge and Zhu Xiu appeared near its vortex, where Zhu Xiu spoke with City Lord Xue and warned Shen Ge about Dao Jin’s strength.

Shen Ge entered the Underworld with Zhu Xiu and City Lord Xue, where the Yin souls feared him and he found Other Shore Flowers. After they went their separate ways, City Lord Xue and Zhu Xiu both noticed something strange about Shen Ge’s presence.

• City Lord Xue led Zhu Xiu and Shen Ge through the entrance to the Underworld, where she warned them about the vicious ghosts and ghost kings.
• City Lord Xue noticed the Yin souls were unusually docile, while Zhu Xiu suspected they were afraid of Shen Ge.
• Shen Ge traveled through the Underworld unhindered, found red flowers he recognized as possible Other Shore Flowers, and moved them into the Ghost Gate Pass.
• City Lord Xue collected nether stones and Yin souls to use as artifact spirits, then watched Shen Ge thoughtfully.
• Zhu Xiu collected Three Lives Flowers and wondered whether Shen Ge had changed or taken up the Ghost Dao.

Shen Ge confronted a powerful ghost king and learned that the ghost king’s master, Weiyang, had left a stele describing his theories about samsara. The stele’s claim that souls return to heaven and earth left Shen Ge laughing through his sorrow.

• Shen Ge approached the strongest presence in the netherworld, and a ghost king emerged to attack him.
• A pitch-black door and a shifting ghostly figure appeared behind Shen Ge, making the ghost king wary and willing to answer his questions.
• The ghost king identified his master as Weiyang, who had ascended two hundred thousand years earlier, and led Shen Ge to a stone stele.
• Shen Ge read Weiyang’s account of the Three Lives Flower, which grew in the Land of the Nine Netherworlds.
• Shen Ge read Weiyang’s theory that souls return to heaven and earth and are remade through samsara, then collapsed into grief-struck laughter.

After discovering that the outcome he had pursued was an illusion, Shen Ge helped the Ghost King Yi escape and fell into despair. A year later, the Eight Domains war began, while Mo Qingyu battled a transformed Fenghuo and Shen Linfeng and Li Xue confronted Qingyu in a secret realm.

• Shen Ge emerged from his silence, told the Ghost King Yi he would take him out, and opened a black gate for him.
• Shen Ge sealed the gate as Ghost Qi churned around it, then brooded over his shattered hope and muttered about reincarnation.
• Zhu Xiu saw that the wind cave had closed, concluded Shen Ge had likely died, and vanished from Desert Wind City.
• One year later, an ethereal voice announced the start of the Eight Domains war, which allowed anyone below Mahayana to participate.
• Mo Qingyu confronted the transformed Fenghuo in the Archaic Region's Great Abyss and fought him and another opponent.
• Shen Linfeng and Li Xue met Qingyu in a Southern Li secret realm, where Shen Linfeng challenged him over the fake cultivation method and Qingyu urged them to hurry deeper inside.

A century after war erupted between the Heavenly Desolation Domain and the Devil Domain, Shen Ge joined Su Liuyue, Mo Qingyu, and Li Xue in a battle against Li Yuxin. Li Yuxin unleashed a Tribulation Transcendence treasure that nearly killed them, but Li Xue made it vanish, and the group fled after a distant expert struck them with divine sense.

• Ten years after Mo Qingyu's earlier defeat, Shen Ge remained missing while Shen Linfeng stayed active, and Zhu Tianyu realized Shen Ge was still alive.
• A hundred years later, the Devil Domain invaded, and the Heavenly Desolation Domain ordered cultivators at Nascent Soul Realm or above to fight at the Gods and Devils Battlefield.
• During the war's third year, Su Liuyue and Mo Qingyu confronted Li Yuxin, and Shen Ge and Li Xue joined them after a night of fighting.
• Li Yuxin endured attacks from all four opponents before revealing a painting that summoned a mountain and crushed them beneath its pressure.
• Li Xue's red light erased the mountain and scroll and made Li Yuxin vanish, allowing the four fighters to recover and leave.
• A Tribulation Transcendence expert's divine sense swept the area and injured the four from afar before withdrawing.

Shen Ge and the others escaped after an overwhelming divine sense attacked them, while Zhu Xiu fought five Devil Cultivators in the central war zone. Zhu Xiu broke their Five Devil Formation, and a flaming fist appeared in the Devil Qi as the battle continued.

• A Heavenly Sword Sect cultivator challenged a middle-aged Evil Qi cultivator for targeting Li Xinyu, who was only an avatar.
• Shen Ge and the others escaped using Li Xue's teleportation formation, and Mo Qingyu and Su Liuyue went into seclusion to recover.
• Zhu Xiu fought five Devil Cultivators and used his Blood Qi and war hammer to injure and drive back their attackers.
• Zhu Xiu summoned a sky-piercing painted halberd and unleashed a blood dragon, but the Devil Cultivators countered with the Five Devil Formation.
• Zhu Xiu shattered the giant devil's hand, severely injuring one Devil Cultivator, who teleported away and caused the formation to collapse.
• A flaming fist emerged from the Devil Qi, leaving a Spirit Severing Early Stage Devil Cultivator with nowhere to dodge.

Zhu Xiu and Ye Xingchen gained fame through major battles in the Gods and Devils War, while Shen Ge emerged from seclusion at the Spirit Severing Middle Stage. The chapter ended with Shen Ge telling his master that his original body had vanished from Mo Wind City more than a century earlier.

• Zhu Xiu fought four Devil Cultivators, helped spark a three-day battle, killed eleven Devil Cultivators, and advanced to the Spirit Severing Middle Stage.
• Ye Xingchen used his new Law Treasure bow and joined forces with Wanye to fight a Devil Cultivator attack; he survived the costly battle and earned the title Tyrannical Alchemist.
• Shen Ge emerged from seclusion after advancing to the Spirit Severing Middle Stage and joined his master, senior sister, fellow disciples, and Su Sui at a pavilion.
• Shen Ge learned that Li Xue was still recovering from severe injuries and told Mo Qingyi that his original body had been missing from Mo Wind City for over a hundred years.

Su Liuyue, Mo Qingyu, and Shen Linfeng tracked Shen Ge to a ruined Ghost Dao secret realm in the Yellow Wind Sands. After entering through the Ghost Gate Pass, Mo Qingyu confronted Shen Ge for risking his life and staying away for more than five hundred years.

• Xu Yaoyang told fellow cultivators that a dangerous Ghost Dao secret realm had appeared in the Yellow Wind Sands and warned Nascent Soul cultivators against exploring it.
• Su Liuyue and Mo Qingyu sensed Shen Ge's trace in the Ghost Qi, and Shen Linfeng concluded that Shen Ge was devouring the realm to create an Underworld and restore Samsara.
• Mo Qingyu angrily ordered Shen Linfeng to lead them to Shen Ge, and the three searched the Ghost Qi for ten days.
• A doorway marked Ghost Gate Pass appeared, and Su Liuyue, Mo Qingyu, and Shen Linfeng entered before it vanished.
• Shen Ge revealed himself inside the realm, and Mo Qingyu scolded him for endangering himself and failing to contact them for more than five hundred years.

Shen Ge rejected Mo Qingyu and Su Liuyue’s warnings and remained determined to find Mu Wan, even as his obsession threatened to consume him. After the others left the secret realm, Li Xue and Bai Lili arrived in the region, leaving their intentions unclear.

• Shen Ge argued that Mu Wan’s soul might vanish into heaven and earth and insisted he had to find her before it was too late.
• Su Liuyue challenged Shen Ge to consider whether he had the strength to defy heaven, reverse time, or establish Samsara, but Shen Ge ordered everyone out of the secret realm.
• Mo Qingyu and Su Liuyue left in dismay, while Shen Linfeng worried that Shen Ge’s obsession could become a heart demon and privately desired independence from his original self.
• Five Spirit Severing Realm cultivators tried to question Mo Qingyu and her companions about the secret realm, but withdrew after recognizing them and Shen Linfeng.
• More than half a month later, Li Xue and Bai Lili appeared in the region thick with Ghost Qi.

Bai Lili visited Shen Ge while he devoured a ghost Dao secret realm to build an underworld, and offered to help him. She claimed their yin and yang Samsara Qi—and their fates—were bound together, leaving Shen Ge to withdraw while she joined his effort.

• Bai Lili sensed Shen Ge devouring the secret realm to transform the space beyond Ghost Gate Pass into a true world and stepped through a portal to reach him.
• Shen Ge confronted Bai Lili, who teased him about sparing her because her father, Fenghuo, had helped him.
• Bai Lili explained that their Samsara Qi drew them together and said she had come to join Shen Ge's attempt to create an underworld.
• Bai Lili infused the secret realm with her Samsara Qi, speeding its devouring by thirty percent.
• Bai Lili warned that fighting her would force their yin and yang Qi to merge, and argued that their linked fates meant she could not escape the heavenly punishment.
• Shen Ge accepted her help without further argument and dissolved into ghostly Qi, while Bai Lili remained in the secret realm.

Three months after Shen Ge and Bai Lili emerged from a secret realm, their attackers triggered Heavenly Punishment when Shen Ge became its target. As lightning battered the region and the hand from Ghost Gate Pass began to break apart, a formation Li Xue had prepared lit up beneath Shen Ge.

• Three months later, Shen Ge and Bai Lili emerged from the secret realm and faced attacks from cultivators hoping to seize their treasures.
• Bai Lili opened Ghost Gate Pass, and she and Shen Ge used the Six Paths of Samsara Visualization Method to summon a fearsome presence that drove back some of their attackers.
• A hand wielding a fangtian ji emerged from Ghost Gate Pass, and its appearance brought down Heavenly Punishment as the cultivators fled.
• The lightning killed the Nascent Soul cultivators and many Spirit Severing experts, while Shen Ge stood within a protected area as the summoned hand began to break apart.
• A composite formation that Li Xue had secretly laid a month earlier lit up beneath Shen Ge.