Recaps

Shen Ge fought the Heavenly Punishment with help from Li Xue’s formation and Bai Lili’s Samsara Qi, but his Yin-Yang Great Millstone collapsed under the lightning. He summoned three ancient Demon Beasts from stone pages, leaving a Body Integration Realm expert shocked by their identities and the pages’ possible origin.

• Li Xue’s formation blocked the lightning, while Bai Lili lent Shen Ge her Samsara Qi and mocked his romantic entanglements.
• Shen Ge unleashed a black-and-white sword strike that split the sea of lightning, drawing the attention of a Body Integration Realm expert who suspected a connection to Samsara.
• Shen Ge formed a massive Yin-Yang Great Millstone that ground down lightning and let Bai Lili absorb its essence into Ghost Gate Pass.
• The Heavenly Punishment intensified and cracked the millstone, and a purple-tinged bolt struck Shen Ge before the formation collapsed.
• Shen Ge released three stone pages, summoning Little Kui Ox, Zhujian, and Wen; the Body Integration Realm expert recognized them as ancient exotic beasts and suspected the pages came from the Record of Exotic Beasts of the Bai Ze clan.

Shen Ge used six black vortices to absorb the Heavenly Punishment’s lightning, while Bai Lili struggled against the lightning filling her ghost domain. After locating Bai Lili, Shen Ge vanished toward the Lightning Origin, drawing the attention of onlooking experts who suspected a connection to Venerable Reincarnation.

• Three exotic beast imprints protected Shen Ge from the lightning, while Bai Lili considered using her Qiluo Pink Lotus.
• Five powerful figures appeared to watch the Heavenly Punishment, including Luo Lan and Zhang She.
• Shen Ge manifested six black vortices that grew to mountain size and swallowed vast amounts of lightning.
• Lightning flooded Bai Lili’s ghost domain, so she swallowed the Qiluo Pink Lotus and used a giant hand of Ghost Qi to suppress it.
• Shen Ge declared that he had found Bai Lili and disappeared toward the Lightning Origin, while Zhang She discussed capturing him with Luo Lan, who refused to take part.

After surviving the heavenly punishment, Shen Ge and Bai Lili merged, and Bai Lili discovered that Shen Ge came from another world. Shen Ge awakened with new control over the ghost domain as a mysterious figure declared that he had found the Lord of Reincarnation.

• The heavenly punishment ended, Shen Ge vanished from the magma, and Luo Lan and Liu Xianyang departed while Zhang She remained wary of acting.
• Inside the ghost domain, its remaining ghost Qi and Bai Lili flowed into the unconscious Shen Ge, forming a Xiantian Taiji diagram around him.
• A black-mist figure absorbed a wisp of Reincarnation Qi and proclaimed that he had found the Lord of Reincarnation.
• After seeing some of Shen Ge's memories, Bai Lili teased him about being from another world and provoked the reincarnation power before leaving his sea of consciousness.
• Shen Ge awoke and granted Lan Yu and Ghost King Yi partial authority over the ghost domain, while Bai Lili appeared and affirmed that she agreed with his decisions.

Shen Ge faced Venerable Reincarnation, whose clone trapped his own, and learned that the powerful stranger carried an elusive hostility resembling the Heavenly Dao. Unable to settle their conflict by force, Shen Ge proposed a ten-thousand-year contest between their clones, which Venerable Reincarnation accepted.

• Venerable Reincarnation restrained Shen Ge's clone, but Shen Ge's attempt to affect him with the Jade Pure Numinous Treasure Heavenly Venerable's image failed.
• Shen Ge and Bai Lili sensed a faint hostility connected to the Heavenly Dao, while Ghost King Yi and Lan Yu judged Venerable Reincarnation too powerful to defeat safely outside their world.
• Shen Ge sent another clone out to confront Venerable Reincarnation and acknowledged that the Return of the Soul Instruction had helped him regain a human body.
• Shen Ge refused to hand over his cultivation method and proposed that each side send ten thousand clones to hunt one another for ten thousand years.
• Venerable Reincarnation accepted the wager on the condition that their clones could sense one another, and Shen Ge left him a strand of Reincarnation Qi.

Shen Ge sent ten thousand soul fragments into the world to grow stronger, hoping to use them to break through to Tribulation Transcendence, and began a ten-thousand-year wager with Venerable Reincarnation. As their fragments scattered, the wager began, while a man in Azure Origin Palace sensed that the cultivation world’s future had changed.

• Shen Ge created ten thousand soul fragments, instilled them with the Life and Death Art and a desire to kill, and sent them into the night to grow stronger.
• Shen Ge told Bai Lili that he had sealed away some memories and intended to become an immortal and develop the Underworld.
• Venerable Reincarnation entered Shen Ge’s ghost domain, admired the complete little world, and left after Bai Lili opened a portal and checked for hidden measures.
• Shen Ge told Bai Lili to help him cultivate, and she agreed while resolving to make his sealed memories disappear forever.
• Venerable Reincarnation’s clone created ten thousand soul fragments, infused them with reincarnation Qi, and declared that he would claim the Lord of Reincarnation’s Dao.
• A handsome man in Azure Origin Palace sensed that the future of the cultivation world had grown grander and speculated that Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi would erupt again.

A young man who returned from the dead terrorized East Forest Village before a woman in white killed him, while a wealthy merchant’s son was born after a breeze seemed to turn a difficult labor around. The merchant named the child Shen Tianci, believing the heavens had spared him.

• An old man found a dead young man on a forest path, but the man revived, attacked him, and left rumors of a man-eating living corpse near East Forest Village.
• A few days later, a woman in white pursued and killed the revived young man with her flying sword, puzzled by how he had returned to life.
• In Green Leaf Town, a wealthy merchant waited anxiously as his wife struggled to give birth and ordered the midwife to save her when the child’s life was in danger.
• A breeze passed through the courtyard, the baby began to emerge, and the midwife later announced that both mother and son were safe.
• The wealthy merchant named his newborn son Shen Tianci, believing the heavens had intervened to save the family.

Shen Ge and Bai Lili traveled to White Dragon City, where the Dao Repository Academy recognized Shen Ge as the new master of its divine sword, Southern Splendor. Bai Shu approached them as Shen Ge revealed the sword, leaving its reception—and the surrounding cultivators’ interest—in question.

• Shen Ge and Bai Lili left their ghost domain to see the world, while the chapter recounted the fortunes of Shen Ge’s disciples and clone after the war.
• At Falling Rosy Clouds City, Shen Tianci tested as having supreme-grade metal and fire Spirit Roots and drew attention from Gale Sword Valley.
• Bai Lili shopped with Shen Ge in White Dragon City as the Dao Repository Academy’s Bai Shu sensed the Southern Splendor Sword and alerted the academy.
• Bai Shu told the academy’s experts not to seize the sword because it had acknowledged Shen Ge and he had ties to Venerable Xu.
• Bai Shu greeted Shen Ge and Bai Lili, and Shen Ge produced Southern Splendor, drawing greedy looks from nearby cultivators.

Shen Ge traded the Southern Splendor Sword for five years of access to the Dao Repository Academy's Scripture Pavilion, where he and Bai Lili studied rare cultivation methods. After another five years passed, Bai Lili neared the Body Integration Realm, and Shen Ge finished his contemplation and prepared to leave.

• Shen Ge agreed to give Bai Shu the Southern Splendor Sword in exchange for letting him and Bai Lili study in the Scripture Pavilion for five years.
• Shen Ge and Bai Lili entered the pavilion, where Shen Ge found his Divine Sense blocked from examining the higher floors and Bai Lili chose two illusion techniques.
• Bai Shu met with several Body Integration Realm experts, and the Southern Splendor Sword flew deeper into the academy after they confirmed it had been returned.
• Bai Lili completed an illusion cultivation that perfected her State of Mind and brought her to the threshold of the Body Integration Realm.
• After another five years of study, Shen Ge opened his eyes, revealed a brief Sword-Ray, and said it was time to leave.

Shen Ge and Bai Lili entered the Void Star Hall, where Shen Ge fought a three-headed lion and completed a new sword technique. He then summoned the Samsara Qi for a decisive attack as the battle continued.

• Bai Shu invited Shen Ge and Bai Lili to enter the Void Star Hall with the Dao Repository Academy, and they agreed to go when it opened a year later.
• Mo Qingyu and Su Liuyue discussed sending clones into the Void Star Hall and worried about Shen Ge’s absence and Zhang Fengge’s failing lifespan.
• Mo Shang taught students in Blue Sea Town after earning a fearsome reputation as the Yin-Harvesting Devil Lord.
• Shen Ge and Bai Lili entered the Void Star Hall using split souls, and Shen Ge began collecting Star Stone before a three-headed lion attacked him.
• Shen Ge fought the three-headed lion to temper his swordsmanship, then used Spring and Autumn to destroy the lion’s claw marks and complete the technique.
• Shen Ge declared he was done playing and summoned Samsara Qi, preparing a sword force that could decide life and death.

Shen Ge and Bai Lili continued their cultivation and returned to Moon-Supporting City, where Shen Ge encountered one of his separated soul fragments living as a child. Elsewhere, Zhang Fengge’s lifespan ended, and she bade farewell to Su Sui and Lu Xiu before vanishing.

• Shen Ge and Bai Lili split off numerous Peak Nascent Soul clones, including ten figures created by Bai Lili’s Lost Po and Departed Soul Method, then left to conduct an experiment.
• Three years later, Shen Ge and Bai Lili reunited in the Void Star Hall and defeated ten opponents at their realm, earning a formidable reputation.
• At the Hundred Flowers Pavilion in Moon-Supporting City, Bai Lili stayed behind while Shen Ge went out to explore and found a boy who was one of his soul fragments.
• Shen Ge followed the boy to a room where five young girls lived, recognized their Earth Spirit Roots and the boy’s Metal Spirit Root, and sent cultivation methods into the boy’s mind.
• Zhang Fengge regained her youthful appearance before her death, said farewell to Su Sui and Lu Xiu, and vanished into streams of light.

Shen Linfeng and Shen Ge bade farewell to someone in the Earth Marsh region as they turned their attention southwest. On the Vast Grassland, Hei Li killed Blood Lady, but her storage ring trapped him in a formation filled with vengeful souls, and an old ghost later searched the blasted battlefield to confirm Hei Li’s fate.

• Shen Linfeng sent a breeze southwest and returned to meditation as golden light consumed his cave abode, while Shen Ge appeared on White Mist Mountain, sighed, and vanished.
• Hei Li pursued Blood Lady across the Vast Grassland and killed her with a flying sword refined from Blood Stone.
• Hei Li took Blood Lady’s storage ring, but its formation activated and trapped him with the old ghost’s Ten Thousand Souls Banners and vengeful souls.
• Hei Li detonated himself in the formation, destroying countless yin souls and damaging several flags, while the old ghost survived and left with the remaining banners.
• The old ghost returned to the battlefield several times, blasting it with black light before concluding that Hei Li was dead.

Yueyin taught Shen Tianci how to survive deadly conflicts by studying a story about a cultivator ambushed by five opponents. She left him with advice to use every resource immediately and consider begging for mercy when cornered.

• Shen Tianci began studying "A Thousand Ways for a Cultivator to Die" at Yueyin's urging and analyzed a story about a Ninth Layer of Qi Refinement cultivator ambushed by five Eighth Layer opponents.
• Shen Tianci realized the cultivator could have used the Subtlety Perception Technique to detect the ambush before entering the attackers' encirclement.
• Shen Tianci identified the Gale Technique as a way to throw dust and stones into the attackers' eyes and create an opening to escape.
• Yueyin explained that the cultivator could have combined the Burst Talisman, Golden Sword Talisman, and Gale Talisman to flee, and said his overconfidence and reluctance to spend his resources had led to his death.
• Yueyin told Shen Tianci that begging for mercy while invoking a powerful backer could offer another chance of survival, though Shen Tianci looked disdainful.

Shen Ge recognized Bai Yu and Xie Fan when they entered his mountain ghost domain, then exposed their sinister Qi and destroyed their clones. The siblings escaped by detonating their bodies, and Xie Fan planned to involve the Dao Repository Academy in taking on Shen Ge.

• Bai Yu sensed danger in the mountains, and Xie Fan greeted Shen Ge when he appeared before them.
• Bai Yu recognized Shen Ge as Shen Yu, and Xie Fan recalled meeting him at the demon-sealing grounds over a thousand years earlier.
• Shen Ge invited Bai Yu and Xie Fan to his cave, where he drew sinister Qi from them and revealed that they were fated to meet.
• Bai Yu and Xie Fan attacked Shen Ge's clone, then fled when his ghost cultivators surrounded them.
• Bai Yu and Xie Fan detonated their bodies to escape, while Shen Ge regretted that he could not follow their split souls.
• After reuniting far away, Xie Fan vowed revenge and suggested asking the Dao Repository Academy to deal with Shen Ge.

Xie Fan and Bai Yu recovered from their injuries, accepted that the Dao Repository Academy was protecting the ghost domain, and set off for Azure Province to investigate a rumor that an Azure Origin Palace senior was about to become an immortal. Meanwhile, Su Liuyue escaped after killing a powerful Demon Beast, while Mo Qingyu fled from Mo Teng and two other Devil Cultivators in the Void Star Hall.

• At the Dao Repository Academy, Bai Shu asked the academy head whether they should stop Shen Ge and his companion from turning the Kuangqing Mountain Range into a ghost domain, but the old man chose to wait.
• Xie Fan and Bai Yu healed in White Dragon City, decided not to pursue their losses because the Dao Repository Academy was protecting the mountain range, and traveled toward Azure Province to seek opportunities amid rumors of an impending ascension.
• Su Liuyue killed a Demon Beast with Yazi bloodline in the Void Star Hall, collected its valuable corpse, and escaped under layers of concealment arrays.
• Mo Qingyu fled from Mo Teng and two other Late Spirit Severing Realm Devil Cultivators, trading taunts with Mo Teng as he pursued revenge for his earlier defeat.

Shen Ge and his companion faced a powerful Body Integration Realm lightning tribulation in the Kuangqing Mountain Range, drawing the attention of Bai Shu and other cultivators. Their strange presence reminded Gongsun Liyuan of Venerable Reincarnation as the next strike began.

• Bai Shu and Gongsun Liyuan arrived at the Kuangqing Mountain Range after sensing the tribulation, and Bai Shu explained that the academy head had approved the presence of ghosts there.
• A bolt of lightning blasted through the mountains, purifying much of their Yin Qi, before Shen Ge and his companion emerged from the lava pit with newly formed Body Integration Realm presences.
• Gongsun Liyuan and several nearby experts felt awe toward the pair, while their thousand-zhang dharma form suppressed the cultivators’ divine souls with a chilling presence.
• Gongsun Liyuan recalled Venerable Reincarnation’s similar presence and abandoned his suspicions about the pair.
• As another sea of lightning descended, the dharma form unleashed Yin Qi and struck it with a Yin-Yang Great Millstone, which onlookers doubted could stop the tribulation.

Venerable White Dragon observed Shen Ge and his companion’s small world during their three-day lightning tribulation and recognized signs of Samsara. After the tribulation, he protected the surviving pair from Gongsun Liyuan and the other Body Integration Realm experts, who wanted to seize their world.

• A black curtain sealed off the Kuangqing Mountain Range as Yin Qi engulfed the lightning tribulation, while an imprisoned half-demon beneath the Dao Repository Academy sensed a chance to reach Tribulation Transcendence and demanded that Venerable White Dragon release her.
• Venerable White Dragon left the academy and observed the small world, praising Shen Ge and his companion’s Cultivation Method and wondering whether its mysterious principle was Samsara.
• Lightning filled the small world for three days, and onlookers feared the pair would die as their dharma form dwindled.
• When the tribulation ended, the small world broke away from heaven and earth, but Gongsun Liyuan and the other experts tried to seize it.
• Venerable White Dragon burned away their attacks with Great Sun Golden Flame and ordered them to disperse, forcing the experts to withdraw.

In Azure Origin City, cultivators discussed whether unexplained hostility between strangers could come from past lives or from powerful experts’ clones. Huang Yi was shaken by the possibility that he was a clone, while Ye Xingchen advised him to have a Body Integration Realm expert examine his soul.

• Azure Origin Palace sent a handsome youth to Azure Origin City to keep order ahead of a patriarch’s ascension.
• Huang Yi told Xie Fan, Bai Yu, and other cultivators that he had felt murderous hostility toward two strangers despite having no prior grievances with them.
• The cultivators speculated that Huang Yi’s experiences might be tied to Samsara or to powerful experts’ clones.
• Ye Xingchen suggested Huang Yi might be a clone, prompting Huang Yi to insist that he had lived his own life and was not someone’s fragment of divine soul.
• Ye Xingchen advised Huang Yi to have a Body Integration Realm expert examine his soul, and Huang Yi sat brooding over the possibility.

Venerable Reincarnation Qin Busi and Demon Emperor Feng Jiutian learned that Hai of the Azure Origin Palace was nearing ascension, and Feng Jiutian sent Qingxia to attend his ceremony. Feng Jiutian then met Qin Busi, who revealed he was delaying his own ascension until he settled a wager, while she expected to face her tribulation within five thousand years.

• Qin Busi caught a powerful vicious beast in the Marsh Sea Domain and decided to bring Hai a generous gift for his ascension.
• Feng Jiutian emerged from ten thousand years of seclusion and learned from Qingxia that Hai of the Azure Origin Palace would soon ascend.
• Feng Jiutian instructed Qingxia to choose someone to attend Hai's ceremony, and Qingxia agreed to go after Bi Xiao and Lu Shang refused.
• Feng Jiutian found Qin Busi on Sea Rosy Clouds Island and questioned why he had delayed ascension after reaching the Peak Tribulation Transcendence Realm eighty thousand years earlier.
• Qin Busi said he would consider ascending after settling a wager with a junior, while Feng Jiutian said she expected to undergo her tribulation within five thousand years.

One year after Venerable Hai ascended, Shen Ge and Bai Lili traveled as avatars to the Netherworld Domain to establish separate factions. Their arrival drew the attention of Sun Yu, an avatar of Venerable Reincarnation, and Lan Yu attacked him on Shen Ge’s behalf, but he survived and fled.

• Venerable Hai ascended from Azure Origin Palace as Shen Ge and Bai Lili watched from an attic in Azure Origin City.
• Shen Ge entered seclusion while Bai Lili declined to do so.
• Shen Ge and Bai Lili arrived at Red Flame Mountain in the Netherworld Domain and agreed to build factions separately.
• Bai Lili summoned three Spirit Severing Peak Stage ghost cultivators who served as her subordinates, while Shen Ge departed alone.
• Sun Yu, waiting in Hundred Ghost Town, sensed Shen Ge’s arrival and set out to confront him.
• Shen Ge summoned Lan Yu, who pierced Sun Yu with a ghostly spear; Sun Yu survived the blast and fled, vowing to retaliate.

Shen Ge created Ghost Gate Pass on Yin Mountain and formed the Heaven and Earth Millstone to establish Samsara in the Netherworld. A powerful cyan-robed Daoist subdued the Heavenly Dao, which surrendered its authority over Samsara, and Shen Ge’s followers were tasked with guarding it for a hundred thousand years.

• Shen Ge wiped out the Yin souls and creatures on Yin Mountain, then created Ghost Gate Pass and drew weaker Yin souls toward it.
• Shen Ge merged with Bai Lili and used his Law Power to create the Heaven and Earth Millstone after a month of upheaval in the ghost domain.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered world-destroying tribulation Qi to strike, but a cyan-robed Daoist appeared beside the millstone and dispelled it.
• The Daoist declared that Samsara must be established, and the Heavenly Dao surrendered its authority after punishing ghost emperors who reached for its offerings.
• Six black holes appeared behind the millstone, and the Daoist ordered Shen Ge’s followers to guard Samsara for a hundred thousand years in exchange for hope of reaching Daluo.