Recaps

The Spirit Race burned its cultivators’ life force to overpower the Giant Bear Clan, forcing Shan Yue and his allies to retreat behind Barbarian Bone Pass. Reinforcements from both sides then arrived, escalating the battle into an all-out Spirit Transformation war.

• More than twenty Spirit Race Spirit Transformation cultivators used the Life-Burning Technique to increase their combat power and attack the Giant Bear Clan.
• Shan Yue helped his wounded allies retreat to Barbarian Bone Pass, where the bone warships’ volleys killed one Spirit Race cultivator and drove the pursuers back.
• The Giant Bear Clan used the pass’s restrictions and warships to repel the Spirit Race’s attacks, while Shi Jian’s Righteous Yang Lightning foundation continued to solidify.
• Eight Spirit Race reinforcements led by a Perfected Spirit Transformation cultivator arrived from the south, and six Giant Bear Clan reinforcements arrived from the north.
• The two forces gathered more than thirty Spirit Race cultivators and more than twenty Giant Bear Clan cultivators, turning the clash into an all-out battle.

The Spirit Race abruptly withdrew from every front, allowing Barbarian Bone Pass to regroup while Shi Jian recovered from battle. The Spirit Race then began draining vitality and resources from conquered clans, apparently to prepare Bailu Lingyuan for a breakthrough.

• A Spirit Race Perfected Spirit Transformation expert received a jade talisman and withdrew from his fight with Shan Yue, prompting Bi Luo and the other Spirit Race forces to retreat as well.
• Shan Yue stopped Cang Wuji from pursuing and explained that the Spirit Race was withdrawing across the entire front; he ordered the defenders to regroup, recover, and hold their passes.
• Shi Jian rested and found that his Righteous Yang Lightning foundation was about eighty percent formed; Cang Wuji warned that the next assault could bring more than thirty Spirit Transformation experts.
• The Spirit Race plundered conquered clans, seized their resources and fighters, and deployed Spirit Siphoning arrays to drain vitality from vast territories.
• The Beast Realm factions suspected the Spirit Race was gathering vitality to help Bailu Lingyuan, a missing genius with four Treasured Earth Immortal Foundations, attain the Dao.

Shan Yue’s council discussed the Spirit Race’s defensive line and its effort to nourish Bailu Lingyuan toward the Treasured Earth Dao Fruit, while the Beast Realm remained unwilling to risk an all-out war. Shi Jian continued recovering and cultivating Righteous Yang Lightning, finding a new way to coordinate his three Immortal Foundations but not yet mastering them.

• Shan Yue shared intelligence showing that the Spirit Race had built a vast defensive line and Spirit-Draining Grand Arrays to support Bailu Lingyuan’s secluded cultivation.
• Shi Jian warned that attacking would exhaust the Beast Realm, while doing nothing could let the Spirit Race claim the Treasured Earth Dao Fruit; Shan Yue explained that neither realm could risk escalating to all-out war.
• Shan Yue ordered the Beast Realm’s forces to hold their pass cities and recover, and told Shi Jian to refine his third Immortal Foundation while healing.
• The front remained largely quiet for months and years as both sides guarded their positions and limited their clashes to minor reconnaissance skirmishes.
• Shi Jian struggled to unite Righteous Yang Lightning with Purple Pivot Lightning and Purple Firmament Lightning, then tried using Purple Pivot Lightning to command the other two and found a promising direction.

The Peak Mountain Emperor Lord secretly eroded the Vast and Broad Earth Immortal Foundation, undermining the Spirit Race’s chance to attain the Treasured Earth Dao Fruit. He sent a jade talisman toward the Dao Realm, leaving the next move to the Earth Virtue Dao Venerable.

• Barbarian Bone Pass remained fortified by Giant Bear Clan warriors and their vassals as the two realms continued their standoff.
• The Peak Mountain Emperor Lord used the authority of his three Dao Fruits to stain the Vast and Broad Earth Immortal Foundation with his Dao rhythms.
• The Peak Mountain Emperor Lord concluded that Bailu Lingyuan could no longer fully attain the Treasured Earth Dao Fruit unless the Spirit Race found a way to undo his mark.
• The Peak Mountain Emperor Lord sent an earthy-yellow jade talisman toward the Dao Realm for the Earth Virtue Dao Venerable.

Returning Earth Dao Venerable visited the Nether Realm to propose that the Beast Realm and Nether River Imperial Clan join forces against the Spirit Race and seize the Returning to Stillness Dao Fruit. Nether Domain Dao Venerable agreed to seek the Nether Emperor’s instructions, leaving the alliance undecided.

• Returning Earth Dao Venerable told Nether Domain Dao Venerable that the Spirit Race’s expansion threatened the Nether Realm as well as the Beast Realm.
• Returning Earth Dao Venerable proposed that the Beast Realm and Nether Realm cooperate against the Spirit Race and take the Returning to Stillness Dao Fruit for the Nether River Imperial Clan.
• Nether Domain Dao Venerable considered the proposal and said he needed the Nether Emperor’s instructions.
• Returning Earth Dao Venerable waited for the Nether Emperor’s reply, confident that the Nether River Imperial Clan was tempted by the Dao Fruit.

Returning Earth Dao Venerable and the other Dao Venerables arranged a staged offensive to lure the Spirit Race into sending reinforcements before the Nether Realm joined the battle. As Cang Wuji led the attack from Barbarian Bone Pass, Shi Jian stayed behind to cultivate his third Immortal Foundation, which was nearly complete.

• Returning Earth Dao Venerable told Earth Virtue Dao Venerable, Barbarian Bone Dao Venerable, and Ultimate Dao of Strength Venerable that the Nether River Imperial Clan had agreed to join the war and that they would bait the Spirit Race with coordinated attacks.
• The Dao Venerables planned limited assaults on Spirit Race strongholds to draw its reinforcements into the Dao Realm, where the Nether Realm could help trap them.
• Shan Yue ordered Cang Wuji to attack Jade Abyss Pass with Spirit Transformation cultivators and warships, while warning him not to risk his forces or capture the pass.
• Shan Yue kept Shi Jian at Barbarian Bone Pass because his third Immortal Foundation was still taking shape and he should avoid needless fighting.
• Shi Jian continued refining the balance among his three lightning Immortal Foundations, then watched Cang Wuji's warships depart as he remained in seclusion.

The Spirit Race's Dao Venerables reinforced the defensive line while waiting for Bailu Lingyuan to prove his Dao, unaware of the Beast Realm's purpose in its repeated attacks. Bailu Lingyuan had condensed five Immortal Foundations but still needed twenty years to integrate them, while Spirit-Draining Grand Arrays drained vitality from the surrounding lands to support him.

• The Decay Dao Venerable and Dharma Breaking Dao Venerable discussed the Beast Realm's frequent attacks with the Immortality Dao Venerable, who suspected they were a delaying tactic.
• The Immortality Dao Venerable ordered thirty Spirit Race Spirit Transformation cultivators and more vassal-race cultivators sent to reinforce the defensive line.
• The three Dao Venerables planned for Bailu Lingyuan to prove his Dao using the Vast and Broad Earth Immortal Foundation, betting that Feng Yue would choose Ten Thousand Layered Peaks instead.
• Bailu Lingyuan cultivated within a vitality cocoon after condensing five Treasured Earth Immortal Foundations and determined he needed twenty more years to integrate them.
• Spirit-Draining Grand Arrays drained the vitality of countless minor races to sustain Bailu Lingyuan's cultivation.

Shi Jian formed his third Immortal Foundation and advanced to Late Spirit Transformation, while the front remained eerily quiet. Elsewhere, the Nether River Imperial Clan secretly entered the Dao Realm and prepared to ambush the Spirit Race alongside the Beast Realm.

• Shi Jian completed his Righteous Yang Lightning Immortal Foundation and advanced to Late Spirit Transformation with three perfected foundations.
• Shi Jian assessed his new command over lightning and grew uneasy about the prolonged calm at Barbarian Bone Pass.
• A Nether River Clan cultivator opened a spatial passage in the eastern Dao Realm, allowing thousands of Nascent Soul cultivators and more than a hundred Spirit Transformation cultivators to enter.
• Eternal Darkness Dao Venerable concealed the invading army, and four other Dao Venerables arrived to join the operation.
• Nether Domain Dao Venerable ordered the group to wait for a Spirit Race cultivator to attain the Dao before cooperating with the Beast Realm to encircle the Spirit Race and capture Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable.
• Profound Soul Dao Venerable asked what would happen if Bailu Lingyuan succeeded in attaining the Dao.

The Nether River Imperial Clan concealed its forces while preparing to exploit the Beast Realm’s coming assault on the Spirit Race and pursue its ambitions for the Soul and Death Daos. Six months later, the Beast Realm launched a full attack from seven passes, and Shi Jian joined the assault from Barbarian Bone Pass as the war began.

• The Nether Domain Dao Venerable outlined the Nether River Imperial Clan’s plan to attack during the Beast Realm’s assault, strengthen the Soul Dao, and seize Returning to Stillness’s Dao position.
• The Eternal Darkness Dao Venerable concealed the Nether River forces beneath a vast curtain of darkness.
• Shan Yue told Shi Jian that the seven passes would attack in half a year and that their objective was to pressure the Spirit Race and prevent Bailu Lingyuan from attaining the Dao.
• Six months later, Shan Yue ordered the forces at Barbarian Bone Pass to attack the Spirit Race’s defensive line, and Shi Jian joined the advance with his three perfected Immortal Foundations.
• Cang Wuji warned Shi Jian to stay close to him, while Shi Jian looked toward the Spirit Race’s defenses and considered the greater battle at Peak and Mountain Pass.

Shi Jian led the right wing against the Spirit Race fortress Jade Abyss Pass, where he faced his old rival Bi Luo. After Shi Jian revealed his breakthrough to Late Spirit Transformation, the two sides’ cultivators clashed, leaving Shi Jian and Bi Luo to settle their rivalry in a one-on-one fight to the death.

• Shi Jian led the right wing’s assault on Jade Abyss Pass, but its formation held against the Bone Spirit army’s attacks.
• Shi Jian and Bi Luo recognized each other, and Shi Jian revealed his increased strength as a Late Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Bi Luo summoned a decaying ancient vine and wounded Shi Jian, who countered its corrosion with Righteous Yang Lightning.
• The other Spirit Transformation cultivators joined the battle, and both sides fought above the clouds.
• Shi Jian and Bi Luo faced each other alone and began a fight to the death.

Shi Jian defeated Bi Luo at Jade Abyss Pass, forcing the Spirit Race forces to retreat and securing the right wing for the Giant Bear Clan. He then headed toward the central battlefield, where Shan Yue was holding the line at Jade Cloud Pass.

• Bi Luo consumed a Life Pill and empowered his ancient vine, but Shi Jian used his Dao Artifacts and Righteous Yang Lightning to withstand the attack.
• As the Life Pill's power faded, Bi Luo withdrew and fled south, and Shi Jian chose not to pursue him.
• The five Spirit Race Spirit Transformation cultivators retreated, and Shi Jian's allies killed two Early Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• The Giant Bear Clan's army broke Jade Abyss Pass's shield and stormed the city, winning the right-wing battle.
• Shi Jian hurried to the central battlefield, where Shan Yue and ten Spirit Transformation cultivators faced the Spirit Race's main army at Jade Cloud Pass.

Shi Jian avoided the main battle at Jade Cloud Pass and infiltrated deep behind the Spirit Race lines to find a richer target. After learning the location of a hidden military storehouse, he arrived above it and prepared to seize its resources from the two Spirit Transformation experts guarding it.

• Shi Jian watched the allied forces fight the Spirit Race at Jade Cloud Pass, then decided not to join the battle and slipped south through the void.
• He discovered the Spirit Race's enormous supply network and continued deep behind its defensive line to avoid drawing powerful reinforcements.
• Shi Jian ambushed Qing Teng, a Nascent Soul Late Stage Wood Spirit cultivator escorting a supply convoy, and killed him and his Golden Core subordinates.
• Shi Jian searched Qing Teng's memories and learned that the Xuan-Designation Third Military Storehouse contained Spirit Marrow Crystals and Tribulation-Transcending Life Pills, guarded by only two Spirit Transformation experts.
• Shi Jian traveled southwest to the concealed mountain hiding the storehouse and observed its two Spirit Race guardians.

Shi Jian ambushed two Spirit Transformation experts of the Spirit Race in a sealed mountain cavern and killed them before they could call for help. He collected their bodies and possessions, then reflected that their privileged status had kept them away from the front lines.

• Two Spirit Race experts discussed pressure on the main battlefield and dismissed the chance that the fighting could reach their mountain stronghold.
• Shi Jian sealed off the cavern with the Spaceless Space Dao and struck both cultivators with Soul Lightning, leaving the formation master near death and the metal man badly injured.
• Shi Jian revealed his three perfected lightning foundations and pierced the metal man’s armor and body with a lightning spear.
• Shi Jian killed the metal man with another strike of Soul Lightning, then sealed and collected his corpse and Dao Artifact.
• Shi Jian finished off the formation master, collected his body, and noted that both enemies had been wealthy descendants of Spirit Race Dao Venerables.

Shi Jian raided the Spirit Race’s Xuan-Designation Number Three Military Storehouse, taking its vast supplies and three ancient treasures before destroying the mountain and slipping into the void. He then sensed Bailu Lingyuan begin an early attempt to attain the Dao, and stopped to watch the upheaval from afar.

• Shi Jian used the dead formation master’s Essence Blood to open the storehouse’s jade doors without triggering its safeguards.
• He collected the storehouse’s spirit medicines, Spirit Marrow Crystals, and ninety-nine Tribulation-Transcending Life Pills.
• Shi Jian found and seized a lightning-struck wood fragment, a Treasured Earth Dao guide fragment, and a damaged Space Dao treasure.
• He emptied the storehouse, destroyed the mountain with lightning, and escaped into the void toward the battlefield’s flank.
• Shi Jian sensed a vast Earth Dao eruption and realized Bailu Lingyuan had begun an early attempt to attain the Dao.

Bailu Lingyuan began his ascension to the Dao under the protection of the Spirit Race’s forces and two Dao Venerables, while Shi Jian watched from hiding. His Vast and Broad Earth foundation revealed a corrupting flaw, and the Gate of the Nine Netherworlds appeared to claim the Spirit Race’s life force.

• Bailu Lingyuan began merging his four Immortal Foundations into Vast and Broad Earth as the Heavenly Dao chains descended.
• The Fate-Wielding Dao Venerable and Reverse Life Dao Venerable guarded the ascension while Spirit Race armies sealed the forbidden land.
• Shi Jian observed from the void and suspected the Beast Realm’s assault concealed a larger scheme.
• Fertile and Moist Governance and High Ramparts and Peace merged successfully into Vast and Broad Earth, but a dark, discordant power emerged within the foundation.
• The Heavenly Dao chains turned into deadly punishment, and the two Dao Venerables realized the ascension was in danger.
• The Gate of the Nine Netherworlds appeared in the eastern void, and a voice announced it would take the Spirit Race’s great Life Dao medicine.

Bailu Lingyuan’s Immortal Foundations collapsed under the dark yellow resonance, and the Spirit Race Dao Venerables were blocked from saving him. The Nether River Dao Venerables devoured his soul and body, empowering their Soul Dao and Death Dao as the two Spirit Race elders watched in fury.

• Bailu Lingyuan’s five Immortal Foundations shattered as the Heavenly Dao’s blood-red lightning stripped away his life force.
• The Fate-Wielding Dao Venerable tried to restore Bailu Lingyuan while the Reverse Life Dao Venerable shielded him, but the Eternal Darkness Dao Venerable and Death Fate Dao Venerable stopped them.
• The Profound Soul Dao Venerable tore Bailu Lingyuan’s divine soul from his body and swallowed it, strengthening his Soul Dao.
• The Nether Domain Dao Venerable seized and devoured Bailu Lingyuan’s ruined body, transforming its life force into death Qi and increasing his power.
• The Nether Domain Dao Venerable challenged the Fate-Wielding Dao Venerable and Reverse Life Dao Venerable to let him devour them too.

The Nether River Clan attacked the Spirit Race’s forbidden ground, slaughtered its army, and trapped Fate-Wielding Dao Venerable and Reverse Life Dao Venerable. Shi Jian escaped with the armory’s resources but was stopped in the void by a gray-clad swordsman from the Human Realm’s Hidden Sword Dao Palace.

• Nether Domain Dao Venerable ordered the Nether River Clan to kill the Spirit Race as five Nether River Dao Venerables trapped Fate-Wielding Dao Venerable and Reverse Life Dao Venerable in an array.
• Nether River cultivators destroyed the Myriad Longevity Azure Emperor Array and overwhelmed the Spirit Race army, harvesting its vitality and souls.
• Shi Jian watched the massacre from the void, concluded the Spirit Race’s power in the southern Dao Realm was finished, and decided to retreat north with the resources he had taken.
• A faint Sword Dao edge cracked the Xu Yan Ring’s barrier and stopped Shi Jian as a gray-clad man blocked his path.
• The gray-clad man accused Shi Jian of taking something he should not have and identified himself as a member of the Human Realm’s Hidden Sword Dao Palace.

Shi Jian was hunted by a Five-Foundation Extreme Realm sword cultivator seeking to reclaim a sword and kill him as a threat. He escaped by detonating a damaged Space Dao treasure and plunging into a black hole, while his pursuer returned to report that Shi Jian might still be alive.

• The gray-robed man revealed that Shi Jian’s sword had belonged to his junior and declared that he would kill Shi Jian because of his potential.
• Shi Jian tried to flee, but the gray-robed man’s Immortal Slayer Sword Qi severed his right arm and wounded him as he pursued him into the deep void.
• Shi Jian swallowed a Tribulation-Transcending Life Pill, used its vitality to regrow his arm, and accelerated away from the gray-robed man.
• When the gray-robed man trapped him in a sword domain, Shi Jian detonated a damaged Space Dao cauldron with the Xu Yan Ring, creating a black hole that shattered the domain.
• Shi Jian hurled himself into the black hole, breaking the gray-robed man’s sword-intent lock, and the gray-robed man decided to report him to the palace master and place him on the Heavenly Slaughter List.

Shi Jian survived the destruction of the Space Dao cauldron and hid in an ancient ruin to recover from his grave injuries. The Spirit Race’s defeat left the Beast Realm and Nether River Imperial Clan poised for their next move: a trap to kill the Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable.

• Shi Jian woke in a pool of black water with his limbs destroyed and his Immortal Foundations near extinguished.
• Shi Jian confirmed he was still in the Dao Realm, checked that his treasures had survived, and resolved to recover and comprehend Radiant Yang Lightning.
• Shi Jian sank to the pool’s bottom, concealed his presence, and fell asleep to heal.
• Fate Wielding and Reverse Life escaped to the Spirit Realm with a few followers as the Nether River army wiped out the remaining Spirit Race cultivators and withdrew.
• The Spirit Race’s Treasured Earth Dao Fruit scheme collapsed, while the Beast Realm secured its northern defenses and prepared to take control of the south.
• The Beast Realm prepared to help the Nether River Imperial Clan lay a trap for the Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable while waiting for its emperor to attain a fourth Dao Fruit.

The Beast Realm’s three Dao Venerables revealed that Bailu Lingyuan’s attempt to seize Treasured Earth had been a trap, and the Nether River Venerables had joined their alliance. With Lingyuan dead and the Spirit Race’s plans in ruins, the Spirit Race Venerables retreated from Heaven Beyond Heaven, abandoning most of their armies as the Beast Realm began a sweeping slaughter.

• Immortality Dao Venerable learned from Bailu Lingyuan’s shattered life-soul jade pendant that he had died, while five Nether River Dao Venerables arrived in Heaven Beyond Heaven.
• Earth Virtue Dao Venerable revealed that Feng Yue had used the Vast and Broad Earth Immortal Foundation to poison Lingyuan’s ascension, and Barbarian Bone Dao Venerable warned that Fate Wielding and Reverse Life were also under attack.
• Immortality Dao Venerable attacked Earth Virtue Dao Venerable, but the three Beast Realm Venerables trapped the Spirit Race Venerables and forced them to retreat.
• Immortality Dao Venerable opened a path back to Heaven Beyond Heaven and summoned the Spirit Race’s core bloodlines, leaving most of its forces behind on the Dao Realm battlefields.
• Shan Yue and Cang Wuji led the Beast Realm forces against the abandoned Spirit Race troops, and Shan Yue ordered the armies to kill every Spirit Race member in the Dao Realm.

After the Beast Realm annihilated the Spirit Race in the Dao Realm’s south, the Nine Realms declared the Treasured Earth Dao forbidden and the Beast Realm and Nether Realm began plotting to hunt Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable. In the eastern ruins, Shi Jian’s charred body showed its first signs of renewed lightning, leaving his fate poised for a possible rebirth.

• The Beast Realm spent three months destroying the Spirit Race’s forces and taking control of the Dao Realm’s southern half.
• After Bailu Lingyuan’s Dao seat collapsed, the Nine Realms’ ruling clans forbade their cultivators from pursuing the Treasured Earth Dao Fruit.
• Returning Earth Dao Venerable and Nether Domain Dao Venerable agreed to hunt the isolated Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable as their next step.
• A spark of Righteous Yang Lightning appeared inside Shi Jian’s charred body, while Radiant Yang Lightning stirred within a piece of lightning-struck wood above his shattered Dantian.

Shi Jian recovered in the Black Water Abyss and awakened Radiant Yang Lightning, forming the embryonic fourth Immortal Foundation. After signaling the Giant Bear Clan, he was found by its search party and taken back to Barbarian Bone Pass.

• Shi Jian used the Tribulation-Transcending Life Pill's remaining power to awaken Radiant Yang Lightning and drive Immortal Slayer's Sword Qi from his body.
• Shi Jian's shattered body healed, his severed arm regrew, and his fourth Immortal Foundation began to form.
• Shi Jian sensed the Giant Bear Clan's bloodline call and sent a faint signal through the Barbarian Bone Dao while remaining in the abyss to stabilize his foundation.
• Months later, Ancestor Shanyue, Cang Wuji, and eight other Spirit Transformation giant bears arrived with the will of Barbarian Bone Dao Venerable and found Shi Jian.
• Shi Jian told the clan leaders that a Spirit Transformation Extreme Stage expert from the Hidden Sword Dao Palace had pursued him and that he had hidden to recover.
• The E Gu Bear Emperor's will swept Shi Jian and the ten demon immortals away toward Barbarian Bone Pass.

Shi Jian gave fifty Tribulation-Transcending Life Pills to the Giant Bear Race elders, winning their support before joining the Beast Realm’s imperial council. The Dao Venerables ordered an expedition to destroy the Death Giant Lizard Clan and claim its Returning to Stillness Dao Fruit for the Nether Emperor.

• Shi Jian presented fifty Tribulation-Transcending Life Pills to Shan Yue for the Giant Bear Race’s elders to distribute.
• Shan Yue and Cang Wuji praised Shi Jian, and the other elders accepted his gift and pledged their support.
• An imperial clan summons called Shan Yue and Shi Jian to a council at Peak and Mountain Pass.
• Earth Virtue Dao Venerable announced that the Beast Realm had to help the Nether Emperor obtain the Returning to Stillness Dao Fruit.
• The E Gu Bear Emperor ordered eighty elite Spirit Transformation experts and a million vassals to attack the western Dao Realm, destroy the Death Giant Lizard Clan, and raze the Black Sha Wasteland.

Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable realized that the Nether River Emperor had sealed the Dao Realm and that its native Dao Venerables would not help him. The Beast Realm’s five Dao Venerables then descended on the Black Sha Wasteland to suppress him and his clan.

• Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable discovered that the Nether River Emperor’s Great Dao Heaven-Shrouding Seal had closed off the Dao Realm and even blocked the route to the starry sea.
• Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable tried to contact the other native Dao Venerables, but they stayed silent, while Youpo Dao Venerable’s Soul Dao imprint lingered near the West Sea.
• Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable learned that the Nether River and Beast Realm had threatened the native clans into submission and lamented that his allies had abandoned him.
• The Beast Realm’s five Dao Venerables broke the sky above the Black Sha Wasteland, crushing countless Death Giant Lizard cultivators under their pressure.
• Earth Virtue, Barbarian Bone, Ultimate Force, Sha Qi, and Conjoined Fire Dao Venerables deployed their powers to suppress the wasteland.

Ten Dao Venerables surrounded Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable in the Black Sha Wasteland and demanded his Great Dao attainment, intending to consume his body and soul. He unleashed the full power of his six Immortal Foundations in a final counterattack, and all ten enemies struck back at once as the wasteland was engulfed in destruction.

• Ten Dao Venerables sealed the Black Sha Wasteland and called Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable out of hiding.
• Earth Virtue Dao Venerable offered to spare Returning to Stillness's clan if he surrendered his Great Dao source and Immortal Foundations, but Nether Domain Dao Venerable revealed the Nether River planned to consume him.
• Returning to Stillness rejected surrender and unleashed his six Immortal Foundations, declaring that his Dao would never kneel.
• Returning to Stillness's extinction ripples weakened the other Venerables' attacks, but Nether Domain ordered everyone to strike before he could destroy his attainment.
• All ten Dao Venerables attacked Returning to Stillness at once, and their clashing powers engulfed the Black Sha Wasteland in destruction.