Recaps

Ning Yue fought off Lu Xiansen, who was actually Huang Liang, after the Second-Rank martial artist tried to kill him. As Ning Yue lay injured under the watch of several soldiers, an alarm announced a ferocious beast riot in Xinyuan City.

• Ning Yue spotted malice in Lu Xiansen's expression and used the Eye of Heaven Observation to discover that he was Huang Liang, a Second-Rank martial artist.
• Huang Liang attacked Ning Yue with a deer-antler dagger, and Ning Yue drew the Jade Blood Saber and fought back with the Ninefold Thunder Saber.
• Huang Liang and Ning Yue exchanged attacks at close range, and Ning Yue grew increasingly overwhelmed by Huang Liang's combat experience.
• Ning Yue knocked their weapons aside, grappled Huang Liang, and repeatedly headbutted him until he went limp.
• Ning Yue threw Huang Liang aside as several soldiers surrounded him, and an alarm announced a ferocious beast riot and ordered everyone to assemble.

Ning Yue killed a Beast God Cult infiltrator at the Martial Artist Complex, and soldiers confirmed the dead man was a human-beast hybrid. As a ferocious beast riot endangered the city, a commander took Ning Yue to help fight the beasts and gain combat experience.

• A commander arrived at the certification hall and questioned the 8th Squad for remaining there during the ferocious beast riot.
• The commander split the corpse and revealed a yellow-and-white crystal core, confirming the dead man belonged to the Beast God Cult.
• Ning Yue accepted the soldiers’ salute and said he had killed the infiltrator to protect himself and his family.
• The 8th Squad marched along Pear Tree Street to exterminate the rampaging beasts and protect residents.
• The commander invited Ning Yue to fight the beasts, then grabbed him and charged out of the Martial Artist Complex.

Zuo Yidao brought Ning Yue to the northwestern corner of Xinyuan City to train against ferocious beasts, where Ning Yue faced a swift Shadow Cat. The chapter ended as the Shadow Cat lunged at Ning Yue and the nearby martial artist feared it had torn open his chest.

• Zuo Yidao introduced himself to Ning Yue as the commander of the City Guard Third Battalion and carried him northwest through the city.
• Zuo Yidao killed a Three-Tailed Porcupine that had gravely wounded Wang Yibo, Li Fuxiang, and Shan Yue as they defended the people behind them.
• Zuo Yidao left Ning Yue in the northwestern corner of Xinyuan City to practice controlling his strength and gain combat experience.
• Ning Yue rushed to help a martial artist attacked by a Shadow Cat, but struggled to keep up with the beast's speed.
• Ning Yue endured hundreds of the Shadow Cat's attacks while pretending to tire, and the Shadow Cat finally lunged at his chest.

Ning Yue killed a Shadow Cat with his bare hands, collected its crystal core, and watched martial artists battle other vicious beasts, including a Volcanic Giant Bull. He left the old street to hunt more beasts and help defend Xinyuan City.

• Ning Yue grabbed the Shadow Cat and broke its neck after enduring its claw attacks.
• Ning Yue collected the Shadow Cat’s crystal core, while Old Cao refused to split the reward and went to help the other martial artists.
• Ning Yue saw a Seventh-Rank grandmaster fighting the Volcanic Giant Bull and keeping the beast at bay.
• Ning Yue left the old street and ran toward the louder fighting to kill more vicious beasts.

Ning Yue spotted a Vajra Giant Ape charging toward Zuo Tianchang and his students while they fought a Three-Eyed Silver Wolf, so he intervened to protect them. His attack drew the ape’s fury, and he met it head-on with his Indestructible Vajra Physique; their clash ended with one of them flying backward.

• Ning Yue saw Zuo Tianchang, Gan Xiaomei, Wang Xueqing, and Liao Dong steadily wearing down a Three-Eyed Silver Wolf.
• Ning Yue noticed a wounded Second-Rank Vajra Giant Ape standing over a corpse and preparing to charge at the group.
• Ning Yue threw his Jade Blood Saber at the ape, but it broke the weapon and turned on him.
• Ning Yue charged the Vajra Giant Ape and met its vajra body with his Indestructible Vajra Physique.
• Ning Yue and the Vajra Giant Ape struck each other with their fists, and one figure was hurled backward.

Ning Yue killed a Vajra Giant Ape after exploiting its weakness, then met a group of accomplished Xinyuan Martial Arts High School alumni. Meng Tian revealed that they had come to see Ning Yue, but their reason remained unknown.

• Ning Yue was badly injured by the Vajra Giant Ape before attacking its vital spot and driving it into a retreat.
• Ning Yue pursued the wounded ape, killed it, and sat on its intact corpse, expecting it to fetch a good price.
• Gan Xiaomei praised Ning Yue for killing the ape, while Ning Yue praised her and the others for defeating a Third-Rank vicious beast.
• Meng Tian, Gao Yao, He Li, and Wan Qili approached Ning Yue and greeted their former teacher, Zuo Tianchang.
• Meng Tian told Zuo Tianchang that the group had come to see Ning Yue.

Ning Yue negotiated the sale of his Vajra Giant Ape to Meng Tian and the others, raising their offer from one hundred thousand to five hundred thousand after his homeroom teacher hinted at its value. As Lei Zhan flew toward the group after slaying the Volcanic Giant Bull and nearby beasts, the chapter ended with him apparently noticing Ning Yue.

• Ning Yue agreed to sell the Vajra Giant Ape but waited for his homeroom teacher's signal before accepting Meng Tian's offer.
• Ning Yue's homeroom teacher suggested the ape could help Meng Tian break through to the Fourth Rank, prompting Meng Tian to raise the offer to five hundred thousand.
• Ning Yue required payment up front, and Wan Qili grew hostile when Ning Yue refused to trust them with credit.
• Lei Zhan and another Seventh-Rank grandmaster killed the Volcanic Giant Bull, which crashed into buildings as it fell.
• Lei Zhan slew and crushed vicious beasts in his path, and Ning Yue recognized him as his father's good brother.
• Lei Zhan appeared to notice Ning Yue and flew toward the group.

Ning Yue met Grandmaster Lei Zhan during the ferocious beast riot, completed the sale of the Vajra Giant Ape, and collected a reward at the City Lord's Manor. He left with his First-Rank martial artist certification and 610,000 yuan, while still holding an unsold Shadow Cat crystal core.

• Lei Zhan flew over, recognized Ning Yue, invited him to the City Lord's Manor, and warned Wan Qili with a glance before leaving to fight the ferocious beasts.
• Ning Yue reminded the others that Lei Zhan was the captain of the Mad Battle Hunting Team, and Wan Qili stopped provoking him.
• Ning Yue refused Meng Tian's offer of an extra hundred thousand yuan and sold the Vajra Giant Ape for five hundred thousand.
• Zuo Tianchang reunited with his younger brother Zuo Yidao at the City Lord's Manor, where Zuo Yidao explained that the manor was rewarding those who helped suppress the riot.
• Ning Yue and the others each received a hundred-thousand-yuan reward, and staff processed Ning Yue's First-Rank martial artist certification.

Ning Yue began his first simulation in the Defying the Gods world, choosing Martial Dao Myth, Traveler, and DINK as his talents. By age nine, he had learned that a demon called the mountain god was taking children from his fog-shrouded village, and he was eager to explore beyond it.

• Ning Yue spent the evening with family and friends after Old Ban left with Zuo Yidao and the others departed.
• Ning Yue paid 100,000 yuan to activate the Myriad Heavens Simulator and drew the Defying the Gods world.
• Ning Yue selected Martial Dao Myth, Traveler, and DINK as his three initial talents.
• Ning Yue's simulated parents lost his older sister to the mountain god when he was five, after another village boy had disappeared.
• Ning Yue trained with the village hunting party and rapidly improved his martial arts, learning that the mountain god was a demon that used the fog to conceal the village.
• Ning Yue became eager to leave the village and see what lay beyond it.

The narrator grows from a village prodigy into a martial cultivator while the mountain god’s Anomalies decimate the village. After reaching the Life Spring Realm, he defeats the mountain god but is left barely alive.

• At twelve, the narrator created the Heaven-Breaking cultivation technique, awakening the mountain god, which prepared to slaughter the village.
• After the narrator killed a Monster Grade Anomaly and reached the Wheel and Sea Realm, the mountain god’s attacks and thickening fog caused the village to lose many people.
• On the fourteenth day, the narrator killed his parents after they attacked him as Anomalies, then used his newly comprehended intent to destroy the other Anomalies and found the village nearly wiped out.
• The mountain god appeared as a Blood Grade Anomaly and attacked the narrator, who reached the Life Spring Realm while fighting for survival.
• The narrator defeated the mountain god in a battle that shattered the village, but his life was left hanging by a thread.

Ning Yue’s simulation traced his rise from a survivor who refined Anomalies into spring eyes to the Primordial Venerable who wiped out every Anomaly and ascended. After the simulation ended, he was astonished that he had survived and was offered a choice of reward.

• At thirteen, Ning Yue left the village after recovering and began traveling, later learning that a drop of black blood had turned gods into Anomalies and humans into captive livestock.
• Ning Yue strengthened the Heaven-Breaking Scripture, slew Anomaly gods, and created the Divine Bridge Realm by refining a hundred Life Springs into one.
• Ning Yue established the Martial Domain, took the title Northern Emperor, and spent five years conquering all eighty-one Domains before installing a guardian formation across them.
• Ning Yue comprehended the Fist of Origin, transformed his soul, reached the Other Shore, and annihilated every Anomaly in the God Realm before ascending.
• The human race honored Ning Yue as the Primordial Venerable and renamed the God Realm the Primordial World; after the simulation ended, Ning Yue marveled that he had survived and received a choice of rewards.

Ning Yue chose the Heaven-Breaking Scripture and received it as a demigod-grade technique, then began cultivating it and opened a second heavenly meridian. The chapter left him asking why his father, Ning Baichuan, had warned him to stay indoors.

• Ning Yue retained the Martial Dao Myth talent and chose the Heaven-Breaking Scripture over the secret-realm grotto-heaven and protective formation.
• The Myriad Heavens Simulator adjusted the Heaven-Breaking Scripture to demigod grade because the simulated world could not accommodate a stronger technique, then transmitted its knowledge to Ning Yue.
• Ning Yue checked his updated panel and decided to buy equipment before the college entrance examination.
• Ning Yue cultivated the Heaven-Breaking Scripture for an hour, discovered its destruction attribute, and opened his second heavenly meridian.
• At dinner, Ning Baichuan told Ning Yue not to go outside over the next few days, leaving Ning Yue confused about what had happened.

Ning Yue learned more about the Azure Ghost Race, which had killed nearly a thousand people in Xinyuan City, and met Wang Xueqing on his way to school. At the school entrance, visiting students challenged Xinyuan Martial Arts High School, but Ning Yue focused on asking Wang Xueqing about the alien threat.

• Ning Baichuan told Ning Yue that an unidentified life-form was preying on people's qi and blood, so Ning Yue stayed home for three days before deciding to visit school.
• Ning Yue met Wang Xueqing, who said her father had recovered after Lei Zhan used Vitality Creation Liquid to treat him, though he still owed seven million yuan.
• Ning Yue and Wang Xueqing saw visiting students challenge Xinyuan Martial Arts High School's top students near the school entrance.
• Wang Xueqing told Ning Yue that the Azure Ghost Race had devoured the qi and blood of nearly a thousand people in Xinyuan City, leaving only their skin behind.
• Ning Yue reasoned that the Azure Ghosts were likely avoiding high-rank martial artists and asked Wang Xueqing to explain more about the race.

Wen Xi challenged Huaqing High School after watching its students defeat and mock Xinyuan Martial Arts High School’s fighters, but Hu Zhe opened the match with a sneak attack. Hu Zhe’s Shadowless Claw overwhelmed Wen Xi, leaving him trapped on the defensive.

• Wang Xueqing explained that the Azure Ghost Race came from another world and could create clones, making its members difficult to destroy.
• Ning Yue saw Wen Xi enter the arena and considered stepping in if Wen Xi could not win.
• The Ten Heroes of Huaqing argued among themselves while Yang Yifei tried to control his younger sister, Yang Zihan.
• Wen Xi challenged Huaqing High School and singled out Hu Zhe, angered by his injuries and taunts against Xinyuan students.
• Hu Zhe leapt onto the arena and clawed Wen Xi before he could respond, then used Shadowless Claw to keep him from wielding his saber.

Wen Xi defeated Hu Zhe in the challenge and awakened a spirit physique, then left the remaining Huaqing fighters to Ning Yue. As Liao Siyuan prepared to face Ning Yue, two figures appeared onstage and ordered the private fighting to stop.

• Wen Xi endured Hu Zhe's claw attacks, countered with elbow strikes and sword-hand chops, and knocked him unconscious before kicking him off the stage.
• Wen Xi's aura surged and blade light appeared, prompting Ning Yue to recognize that he had awakened a spirit physique; Wang Xueqing said she had awakened hers too.
• Ning Yue received Wen Xi's message asking for help, then stepped onto the stage as Wen Xi withdrew and left the other Huaqing fighters to him.
• Liao Siyuan, encouraged by Yang Zihan and warned by Yang Yifei, prepared to challenge Ning Yue, whom he underestimated as a qi and blood martial artist.
• Two figures appeared onstage and demanded to know who had authorized the private fight.

Director Li Changsheng overpowered Huaqing’s visiting teacher, Lin Qinghua, then announced an elimination contest in which each school would field five students and the winner would take all. Ning Yue prepared for the coming matches as Xinyuan Middle School began selecting its team.

• Li Changsheng praised Ning Yue and shielded him from Lin Qinghua’s pressure before defeating Lin’s starlight vision with a flash of sword light.
• Li Changsheng revealed his past as a Fifth-Rank martial artist at twenty-one and used his sword aura to force Lin Qinghua to admit defeat.
• Li Changsheng told Ning Yue to prepare to fight Huaqing’s students, and Ning Yue returned to Wang Xueqing, reflecting on the gap between their abilities.
• Li Changsheng announced that five students from each school would compete in one-on-one elimination battles, with any means allowed to win but no deliberate serious injury or killing once an opponent could no longer fight.
• Li Changsheng assigned Zuo Tianchang to select Xinyuan Middle School’s five competitors, then sat beside Lin Qinghua below the stage.

Ning Yue volunteered to fight alone so he could test his strength and gain combat experience. He defeated Liao Siyuan in the opening match, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Zuo Tianchang selected Ning Yue, Wang Xueqing, Zhao Hu, and two other students for Xinyuan City's team, and Ning Yue appointed himself captain.
• Ning Yue ran onto the arena alone, while Wang Xueqing and the others stayed behind to watch.
• Liao Siyuan challenged Ning Yue, and Yang Yifei agreed to let the two fight.
• Ning Yue activated his indestructible vajra physique, then deactivated it as Liao Siyuan attacked.
• Ning Yue dodged Liao Siyuan's axe and struck him with Eighteen Hammer Strikes of Hating Heaven for Having No Handle and Earth for Having No Ring, knocking him off the arena.

Ning Yue defeated Liao Siyuan by repeatedly sending him out of the arena, then faced Yang Zihan, Huaqing High School’s next contestant and an admirer who asked to add him as a friend. Yang Zihan abruptly transformed into a taller, more mature-looking fighter and attacked him with her heavy hammers.

• Ning Yue used his newly discovered control to send Liao Siyuan flying repeatedly without seriously hurting him.
• Yang Yifei stopped Liao Siyuan from continuing the match and told him to accept his loss, while Yang Zihan thanked her brother for letting her meet Ning Yue.
• The referee declared Xinyuan Middle School the winner of the first match and called for Huaqing High School’s next contestant.
• Yang Zihan entered the arena, approached Ning Yue, and asked to add his martial artist number; Ning Yue accepted her friend request.
• Yang Zihan drew a heavy hammer, announced her attack, and transformed as she began using the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer Technique.

Ning Yue countered Yang Zihan’s attack, but she staged a dramatic injury that led the teachers to discuss recruiting her. Yang Yifei then charged Ning Yue in a rage, and their battle reached a head-on clash between Ning Yue’s combined techniques and Yang Yifei’s spear.

• Ning Yue redirected Yang Zihan’s hammers, but hesitated before striking and gave her room to act.
• Yang Zihan pretended Ning Yue had struck her, tearing her outer clothes and falling to the ground as the students misread the scene.
• Li Changsheng and the Xinyuan Martial Arts High School teachers suggested that Yang Zihan transfer, while Lin Qinghua reluctantly said he would consider it.
• Yang Yifei leaped into the arena and attacked Ning Yue with his spear, enraged over his sister’s apparent injury.
• Ning Yue activated Indestructible Vajra Physique and prepared the Fist of Origin, but dispersed the Divine Elephant Prison-Suppressing Force when its backlash weakened him.
• Ning Yue combined Indestructible Vajra Physique, Ninefold Thunder Force, and the Fist of Origin against Yang Yifei’s Yang Family Spear Technique as the two attacks met.

Ning Yue defeated Yang Yifei in the challenge match, prompting Huaqing City to concede so Yang Yifei could receive treatment as his spirit body began awakening. Director Li offered Ning Yue a reward and explained that Fifth-Rank Martial Artists could open special apertures, including one that created storage space within the body.

• Ning Yue struck Yang Yifei with overwhelming force, sending him flying and severely injuring him.
• Lin Qinghua retrieved the unconscious Yang Yifei, announced Huaqing City's concession, and rushed him away to protect his spirit body awakening.
• Yang Zihan indicated to Ning Yue that they should keep in touch before leaving with the Huaqing High School students.
• Director Li praised Ning Yue and asked him to choose a reward, but Ning Yue requested a hundred million and left the choice to him.
• Director Li presented Ning Yue with pills, jade boxes, and golden cards, then explained that special apertures in the Fifth-Grade Realm could store objects.

After receiving rewards from Li Changsheng, Ning Yue learned that the school’s third martial mock exam would take place outside the city in three days. He secretly worked to fuse two cultivation arts, while his parents grew worried when he became absorbed in his thoughts.

• Ning Yue chose a jade box and a medicine bottle from Li Changsheng, who encouraged Wang Xueqing and the other team members before leaving.
• Zuo Tianchang announced that the third martial mock exam would take place outside the city in three days, and Liao Dong reflected on Ning Yue’s growing strength.
• Ning Yue pondered how to fuse the Bitter Bamboo Scripture and the Heaven-Breaking Scripture, outlining a new art meant to refine an indestructible true body.
• Ning Yue continued his work at home without speaking, worrying Mo Zini and Ning Baichuan, who messaged Lei Zhan and said their son seemed possessed.

Ning Yue fused the first layers of the Bitter Bamboo Scripture and Heaven-Breaking Scripture into a new art, the Three Lives and Three Deaths Reincarnation Art, which he named the Primordial Scripture. After his parents and Lei Zhan arranged three days of special training, Lei Zhan reassured them Ning Yue was not possessed and told them about his extraordinary talent, leaving Ning Baichuan eager to fund his training.

• Ning Yue fused the first layers of his cultivation arts and formed the Three Lives and Three Deaths Reincarnation Art, which he recorded as the first layer of the Primordial Scripture.
• Ning Baichuan and Lei Zhan told Ning Yue that Lei Zhan would begin three days of special training with him the next day.
• Lei Zhan assured Ning Baichuan and his wife that possession was beyond even Grandmasters and that Ning Yue was not a likely target for a divine-grade expert.
• Lei Zhan revealed Ning Yue's spirit physique, victories, combat strength, and mastery of his cultivation arts, astonishing his parents.
• Ning Baichuan offered to pay for Lei Zhan's Mad Battle Hunting Team to help train Ning Yue.

After learning that an Azure Ghost had massacred the Vast Sea Residential Complex, Ning Yue advanced his cultivation and headed for the martial artist exchange for special training. On the way, he encountered the Azure Ghost Aba Aba, wounded him, and attacked as he tried to escape.

• Lei Zhan left to investigate the Azure Ghost massacre at the Vast Sea Residential Complex, worrying Ning Baichuan and Mo Zini.
• Ning Yue practiced the Three Lives and Three Deaths Reincarnation Art and formed his eighth heavenly meridian, strengthening his foundation in the First-Rank Realm.
• Ning Baichuan told Ning Yue that Lei Zhan had arranged special training at the martial artist exchange, and Ning Yue set out for it.
• Near Smoke Alley, Ning Yue heard an eerie voice and attacked an old man who revealed himself as Aba Aba of the Azure Ghost Race.
• Ning Yue wounded Aba Aba, recognized the Azure Ghost from the Eye of Heaven Observation, and unleashed several martial techniques as Aba Aba fled in the form of bats.

Ning Yue defeated the Azure Ghost Race’s bat clones but failed to catch the fleeing old man. At the Martial Artist Exchange, Lei Zhan introduced him to Zhang Chun and Lei Ren, then led them underground with the mission to spend money wisely.

• Ning Yue killed the Azure Ghost Race’s bat clones until the old man made them self-destruct, allowing the last bat to escape.
• Ning Yue met Lei Zhan, Zhang Chun, and Lei Ren at the Martial Artist Exchange.
• Lei Zhan introduced Zhang Chun as his niece and Lei Ren as his sixteen-year-old nephew, who had awakened the Thunder Physique.
• Ning Yue told Lei Zhan about his encounter with the Azure Ghost Race, and Lei Zhan relaxed after confirming he was safe.
• Lei Zhan led the group underground and told Ning Yue that his mission was to spend money on the best goods.

Ning Yue, Zhang Chun, and Lei Ren explored the underground martial artist exchange after Lei Zhan gave each of them three million for their special training. At the Pavilion of Wonders, Ning Yue’s Eye of Heaven Observation revealed that the Golden Blade Sky-Breaking Slash could fuse with his Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique into the Ten Directions Ultimate Slash.

• Lei Zhan transferred three million to each of the three and called wise resource allocation their first special-training lesson.
• Ning Yue, Zhang Chun, and Lei Ren toured the exchange and browsed its crowded street stalls, where Zhang Chun admired an ice crystal fire lotus but left it behind because of its price.
• Zhang Chun and Lei Ren said they had found what they wanted, while Ning Yue remained undecided about which weapon and other equipment to buy.
• Zhang Chun led Ning Yue and Lei Ren to the Pavilion of Wonders, which displayed an array of bloodstained weapons.
• Ning Yue felt drawn to a mysterious aura, and his Eye of Heaven Observation identified the Golden Blade Sky-Breaking Slash as a skill that could fuse with the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique to create the Ten Directions Ultimate Slash.