Recaps

Gu Xuanjin used his power and the Human Emperor Banner to crush Xiao Han and the Su Lineage, then established his dominance at the Jade Pool gathering and recruited Lü Yifei. He pursued a new system bearer into the Quasi-Emperor legacy, where Lü Yifei avenged his Dao companion by killing Lu Jun, drawing Demon Emperor Lu Jue to the Gu Clan.

• Gu Xuanjin learned that Gu Xiaoya had broken off her engagement to Xiao Han, then took his guards to the Xiao Clan and ordered its destruction after Xiao Han insulted the Gu Clan.
• Gu Xuanjin defeated Divine Flame Venerable and Su Xinghe, killed Xiao Han, and sent Gu Beimo and Ji Song to wipe out the Su Lineage.
• Gu Xuanjin refined the Sword Dao Law, equipped his embodiment Dugu Yunyan, and accepted the Jade Pool Holy Land’s invitation to its Heavenly Prodigy Gathering.
• At the gathering, Gu Xuanjin defeated the assembled prodigies, Li Xuanji, Beigong Yan, and Ye Chenzhou, while Xu Lingxi rose to seventh place on the Wind and Cloud Ranking.
• Gu Xuanjin recruited Lü Yifei by restoring his cultivation and promising to help him kill the Third Prince of the Myriad Demon Divine Court.
• Gu Xuanjin tracked Fang Lingtian, a bearer of the God-Level Lottery System, to the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom, but Dugu Yunyan failed to capture him.
• Gu Xuanjin entered the Heavenly Peng Demon King’s Quasi-Emperor legacy with Lü Yifei and Ji Song, where Lü Yifei killed Lu Jun after Gu Xuanjin stopped the Demon Race prodigies from intervening.
• Demon Emperor Lu Jue learned of Lu Jun’s death and confronted the Gu Clan, where a defiant voice answered him with a world-ending palm strike as he summoned the Demon Emperor Bell.

Gu Xuanjin destroyed the Myriad Demon Divine Court and its allied strongholds, then sought powerful weapons and moved against Qin Hao’s circle. As the Qin Clan fractured over the stolen Luo Heaven Immortal Bone, Qin Lingkong was ambushed in battle and faced a clash between Shang Di and Lord Sha Star.

• Gu Xuanjin killed Fang Lingtian with the World-Saving Great Handprint, destroying the Demon King’s legacy site and obtaining the God-Level Lottery System’s origin and rewards.
• Gu Xuanjin led the Gu Clan’s invasion of the Myriad Demon Divine Court, where Gu Clan forces killed Lu Jue, defeated the Demon Race’s ancestors, and destroyed four allied strongholds.
• Gu Xuanjin advanced to the eighth level of the Heaven-Reaching Realm, seized Purgatory Blood Slaughter, and learned from the sword tomb’s founder about the Xuanhuan Branch’s decline.
• Gu Xuanjin arranged for Gu Qingming to reforge and refine several swords and formations, then ordered assassins to target Qin Lingkong and traveled toward the Longevity Qin Clan.
• Qin Wusheng learned that Lady Chen had taken the Luo Heaven Immortal Bone from Qin Hao and transplanted it into Qin Jingyu, then rallied the main branch against Qin Lingkong’s branch.
• Qin Wusheng’s five ancestors trapped Qin Lingkong’s three branch ancestors in the Five Elements Heaven-Severing Immortal-Locking Formation and demanded their submission over the immortal bone.
• Qin Lingkong was wounded while defending a general from Great Qian fighters and three masked Peak Quasi-Emperors, until Shang Di intervened on his master’s orders.
• Shang Di prepared to take Qin Lingkong away, but Lord Sha Star arrived and challenged him.