Recaps

Chen Yang rescued Yao Santu from a deadly formation and flew off with him and Yang Yuanhong to find Dongfang Yingcai. Meanwhile, Dongfang Yingcai prepared to lead six cultivators out of a tower besieged by arrow rain, though their survival remained uncertain.

• Chen Yang weakened the formation, allowing Yao Santu to destroy its weapons, then appeared in time to stop its final spear and smash the formation.
• Yao Santu recognized Chen Shitou as Senior Immortal Stone and thanked him for saving his life.
• Chen Yang took Yao Santu and Yang Yuanhong with him and flew toward Dongfang Yingcai's location.
• Dongfang Yingcai sheltered with six cultivators in a tower whose damaged formation was failing under a powerful arrow rain.
• Dongfang Yingcai used her puppet armor to deflect an arrow that threatened an injured Core Formation Cultivator.
• Dongfang Yingcai announced that she would attempt a breakout and raise a Daozhen shield, leaving the others to keep up as best they could.

Dongfang Yingcai led six cultivators through the arrow rain, using her puppet exoskeleton to shield them while balancing their pace against her limited true essence. After the Qi Gathering Cultivators and one Core Formation Cultivator died, she escaped with the two wounded Core Formation Cultivators and tried to break the larger formation with ant puppets, which began damaging it after a sudden tremor.

• Dongfang Yingcai led the six cultivators out of the collapsing tower and into the arrow rain, protecting them with her true essence shield.
• Dongfang Yingcai increased their speed, and the first Qi Gathering Cultivator fell behind and was killed by arrows.
• Dongfang Yingcai sped up again, and two more Qi Gathering Cultivators died; the last Qi Gathering Cultivator then perished as well.
• Dongfang Yingcai drove the puppet exoskeleton at full power and escaped the arrow rain with the two wounded Core Formation Cultivators.
• Dongfang Yingcai sent ant puppets to gnaw at the larger formation, but they initially failed to damage it.
• Dongfang Yingcai felt the formation tremble, and the ant puppets' gnawing began to work.

Dongfang Yingcai and two Core Formation Cultivators struggled to survive the formation’s arrow rain as the ant puppets weakened it, but one cultivator betrayed them and fled. Just as Dongfang Yingcai and the remaining cultivator faced certain death, an unknown man rescued them and shattered the formation with a single punch.

• Dongfang Yingcai asked the two Core Formation Cultivators to lend her their true essence so her shield could withstand the arrow rain while the ant puppets gnawed through the formation.
• As the formation concentrated its arrows on them, one Core Formation Cultivator secretly held back his true essence and waited for a chance to escape.
• The cultivator struck a gap in the damaged formation, knocked down the ant puppets, and fled alone, leaving Dongfang Yingcai and the other cultivator behind.
• Dongfang Yingcai shielded the remaining cultivator with her puppet armor and kept attacking the formation, but the armor shattered beneath the arrow rain.
• An unknown man reached through the formation, pulled Dongfang Yingcai and the other cultivator to safety, then punched through the arrow rain and shattered the formation.

Yang Yuanhong, disguised as Yang Hu, rescued Dongfang Yingcai and tested whether she could see through a treacherous cultivator’s false plea for mercy. After she killed the man, she joined Yang Yuanhong in rescuing others, while Chen Yang pursued the mad god he had drawn out.

• Dongfang Yingcai mistook Yang Yuanhong for Chen Shitou until Yao Santu introduced him as Senior Yang Hu, who had rescued them.
• Yang Yuanhong brought the Core Formation Cultivator who had abandoned Dongfang Yingcai before her, and the man pretended to beg for forgiveness while reaching for her.
• Dongfang Yingcai saw through the man’s scheme and severed his hands; Yang Yuanhong crushed his Origin Core, and she killed him with a final slash.
• Yang Yuanhong invited Dongfang Yingcai to help rescue cultivators, and she joined him and Yao Santu aboard a cloud boat.
• Chen Yang sensed that the mad god had been drawn out, located its true form through their divine-power connection, and pursued it.

Chen Yang found the Mad God at the top of the Divine Weapon Secret Realm and fought its Horse-Slaying Saber as the trapped cultivators below escaped. As the Mad God summoned a Giant Axe and drew all the realm’s evil power to the peak, Chen Yang prepared to counter both weapons with his Time Erosion Divine Art.

• Chen Yang sensed the Mad God’s evil power above the Apex of the Firmament and found Lu Changfeng and seven other Spiritual Connection cultivators trapped by flying swords.
• Chen Yang reached the rusted Horse-Slaying Saber hosting the Mad God and saw a vision of it destroying a planet’s worth of ghosts and monsters.
• The Horse-Slaying Saber cracked Chen Yang’s black armor, but his five true essence blasts knocked the weapon away.
• The Mad God summoned a Giant Axe, while the evil power converged at the peak and the formations across the Secret Realm returned to normal.
• Lu Changfeng broke the remaining flying swords and flew to help the other cultivators as Chen Yang faced the Horse-Slaying Saber and Giant Axe.
• Chen Yang poured his avatar’s divine power and evil power into two Time Erosion vortices as the weapons attacked him.

Chen Yang used the Time Erosion Divine Art to destroy the Giant Axe, but the Horse-Slaying Saber drew in evil power from multiple Secret Realms and resisted. As the resulting relief saved artifact refiners and brought Chen Yang a surge of prayer power, he converted it into divine power and accelerated the temporal abyss again.

• Chen Yang dismantled the Giant Axe with blasts of true essence, leaving the Horse-Slaying Saber as the last weapon resisting his divine art.
• The Horse-Slaying Saber opened passages to four other Secret Realms and gathered their evil power, slowing the temporal abyss and encasing itself in evil-power crystal.
• As the evil power receded, the three Hundred Artifacts Tower masters found they could stabilize the Central Region Secret Realm, and cultivator deaths elsewhere began to decline.
• Cultivators across Azure Waves prayed for the artifact refiners' safety, sending a great surge of prayer power to Chen Yang's main body in the Yang Family's fief.
• Chen Yang purified the prayer power into divine power and sent it to his avatar, which poured it into the Time Erosion vortex to accelerate the temporal abyss around the Horse-Slaying Saber.

Chen Yang accepted the mission of the Divine Dao, reclaimed his place as master of the Canglan Divine Palace, and used its authority to destroy the mad Horse-Slaying Saber. He gave the dying Divine Path creature one final lucid moment before its spiritual body faded, lamenting that Chen Yang had not come sooner.

• Chen Yang resisted the Horse-Slaying Saber's pleas and concluded that he might be the one destined to confront mad god calamities.
• Chen Yang accepted the mission to correct the Divine Dao's ancient mistake, causing the Shattered Divine Palace to awaken and rise from beneath the land.
• Fu Yin, Wu Hua, and Ku Yun were summoned to the palace, where Ku Yun recognized Chen Yang's return to his rightful place as Divine Lord.
• Chen Yang took up the scepter, imposed the Canglan Divine Palace's authority over the Northwest Divine Weapon Secret Realm, and declared divine punishment upon the mad god.
• Chen Yang broke the Horse-Slaying Saber and drew its spiritual body into the palace, where he granted it a final stretch of lucid consciousness.
• The authority's effect ended, and the dying creature lamented that Chen Yang had come too late.

After mourning a Divine Path creature who died in the Divine Weapon Secret Realm, Chen Yang accepted the burden of rescuing the Divine Dao’s scattered survivors and studied the inheritance granted by the True God Authority. He realized that, as an otherworldly variable with no prior divine mark, he would have to forge a new Divine Dao lineage himself.

• Fu Yin, Wu Hua, and Ku Yun silently bowed to Chen Yang after mourning their fallen fellow cultivator.
• Chen Yang gathered the remaining ownerless evil power and gave it to the Blood Sun youngling, which entered a dormant state as it began its first transformation.
• Chen Yang examined the True God Authority and learned that its miracles lasted ten breaths before requiring three to five months to recharge.
• Chen Yang studied the Divine Dao’s cultivation stages and the possible lineages for Fu Yin, Wu Hua, and Ku Yun.
• Chen Yang found no True God mark on his Authority and concluded that he was an otherworldly variable destined to create a new lineage.

After reflecting on the ancient powers and allies behind his mission, Chen Yang resolved to continue forging a new Dao lineage and recognized his new Lower God cultivation as crucial support. He planned to send Yang Yuanhong to the Central Region to save imperiled Divine Path creatures, and obtained the Divine Weapon Creation Chapter, which offered a way to refine an independent celestial grotto.

• Chen Yang compared his undertaking with the achievements of the Divine Lords of Life and Death and Reincarnation, then realized he was supported by the plans and sacrifices of earlier generations.
• Chen Yang examined the Divine Dao cultivation bestowed by the Canglan Divine Palace, which had raised him to the Lower God level and let him wield the True God Authority.
• Chen Yang decided that Yang Yuanhong should train in the Central Region, where Chen Yang could now conceal him from most powerful cultivators and help save Divine Path creatures from calamity.
• Chen Yang's avatar completed absorbing the Divine Weapon Creation Chapter after the Horse-Slaying Saber transformed into the inheritance.
• Chen Yang recognized that the inheritance provided a way to carry out Ku Yun's methods for refining an independent celestial grotto.

After the Divine Weapon Secret Realm lost its spirituality, the cultivators escaped and Yang Yuanhong left Dongfang Yingcai with a letter to deliver. A month later, a package from him reached Dongfang Yingcai, and its sweet cake and brief note made her smile.

• The three Hundred Artifacts Tower masters salvaged several treasures, accepted the loss of the secret realm, and opened the way for cultivators to leave.
• Yang Yuanhong accepted tokens from the cultivators he had rescued, then obtained a Dongfang Family token from Dongfang Yingcai and asked her to deliver a letter to the Immortal Patrol Division.
• Yang Yuanhong departed, and Dongfang Yingcai and Yao Santu later left the secret realm with Geng Zhi and returned to Hundred Artifacts Tower.
• Dongfang Yingcai delivered Yang Yuanhong's letter in Tuoyue City, then grew quiet after returning, prompting Ma Yongsheng to suspect she had fallen for him.
• A month later, Dongfang Yingcai received a package containing sweet cake and a note from Yang Yuanhong telling her to try some too.

Chen Yang considered Yang Yuanhong’s reasons for courting Dongfang Yingcai and approved of his plan, seeing the girl as both a strong match and a potential link to the Dongfang Family. He left the Divine Weapon Convention reflecting on how much more the journey had yielded than the artifact-refining inheritance he had sought.

• Yang Yuanhong explained that an alliance with Dongfang Yingcai could give the Yang Family protection as it prepared to become independent from the Tiger Chasing Dynasty.
• Yang Yuanhong praised Dongfang Yingcai’s talent, character, and resolve, then admitted that he genuinely liked her.
• Chen Yang agreed that Dongfang Yingcai was an excellent match for Yang Yuanhong and permitted him to send her a letter.
• Chen Yang noted that Dongfang Yingcai did not know Yang Yuanhong’s true identity, keeping the Yang Family’s plans concealed.
• Chen Yang reflected that the Divine Weapon Convention had given him far more than the Spiritual Connection Realm artifact-refining inheritance he had originally sought.

Dongfang Yingcai suspected Chen Shitou and Yang Hu were the same person and possibly the disciple of a reclusive great cultivator. She concealed the package from her family, decided to keep his identity secret, and returned to diligent Artifact Path cultivation.

• Dongfang Yingcai reasoned that Chen Shitou and Yang Hu might be the same person and that his hidden identity suggested an extraordinary background.
• Dongfang Yingcai recalled the Sage of Chess Sect’s mysterious founder and the powerful reclusive cultivator who had protected him.
• Dongfang Yingcai wrote to her family about the mysterious cultivator and advised them to treat him as an honored guest, without mentioning the package.
• Dongfang Yingcai kept the remaining Sweet Cakes and resolved to protect the cultivator’s identity while looking forward to meeting him again.
• Dongfang Yingcai became lively and worked harder at Artifact Path cultivation, delighting Ma Yongsheng.

Yang Yuanhong traveled through the Northwest toward the Central Region, using tokens from the Divine Weapon Secret Realm to secure passage through local factions. After crossing into Barbarian territory, Chen Yang sensed that the Barbarians’ faith-based power might mean their lands were a blessed land fused with a Divine Path creature.

• Yang Yuanhong took a roundabout route through the Northwest and reached its eastern border more than four months ahead of schedule with help from several great sects.
• Luo Yuan gave Yang Yuanhong a spiritual treasure armguard from Chuyun Pavilion and warned him about the Barbarians and their powerful Great Priests.
• After Yang Yuanhong departed, Luo Yuan told his junior that Yang Yuanhong possessed both the heart and strength of a heavenly prodigy, and predicted his return would shake the Northwest.
• Ten days later, Yang Yuanhong crossed the forest into Barbarian territory and sent away the mutated Demon Beasts that had followed him.
• During his battles with the beasts, Chen Yang sensed their totem power resembled prayer power and suspected the Barbarian Lands were a blessed land fused with a Divine Path creature.

After Yang Yuanhong defeated the mutated Demon Beast leaders, Chen Yang used his divine power to make them submit, while he revealed the self-operating stone-body grotto-heaven he had completed over the past year. The grotto-heaven still needed time for its special weather to stabilize, so Chen Yang marked the Demon Beasts and planned to bring them to the Yang Family later.

• Yang Yuanhong defeated the mutated Demon Beast leaders without killing them, and Chen Yang's divine power made the beasts submit.
• Chen Yang explained that he had spent the past year studying the Artifact Path, talisman path, and Way of Formations to build his stone-body grotto-heaven.
• Chen Yang described how grand talismans, harmonization talismans, the Star Constellation Dragon Walking Art, and formations let the grotto-heaven operate as a small world.
• Chen Yang said the grotto-heaven's spiritual qi was only about twice the outside level and its weather phenomena needed at least three more years to stabilize.
• Chen Yang marked the mutated Demon Beasts with divine power and planned to gather them into his grotto-heaven and bring them back to the Yang Family on his next visit.

Yang Yuanhong entered the Barbarian Lands and watched winged divine envoys demand child sacrifices from a tribe. After the envoys crippled Amingu, the tribe discovered an outsider had appeared.

• Yang Yuanhong used a regional map to reach a small barbarian tribe and concealed himself when winged cultivators approached.
• Chen Yang used the Profound Truth Talisman Bead to translate the barbarians’ speech and relayed their dispute over sacrifices to Yang Yuanhong.
• A winged divine envoy demanded the tribe’s last three children as sacrifices, beat the leader, and killed several residents when the leader pleaded.
• Aminigu challenged the envoys’ increasing demands, and one of them tore into his chest and broke his soul bone.
• After the divine envoys flew away, the tribe treated Amingu, and its soldiers reported that an outsider had appeared.

Yang Yuanhong arrived at a struggling Barbarian tribe and offered to save the severely injured Amingu. The Tribal Leader let him enter, but when other cultivators protested, Yang Yuanhong used his pressure to silence them as Amingu's condition worsened.

• The Tribal Leader learned that an outsider had arrived just after the divine envoys departed and went to meet Yang Yuanhong at the tribe's gate.
• The Tribal Leader sensed Yang Yuanhong's great strength and recalled how the Barbarians' declining blessings had fueled hostility toward outsiders and border wars.
• Yang Yuanhong spoke fluent Barbarian and told the Tribal Leader that Amingu would lose his cultivation without immediate treatment.
• The Tribal Leader accepted Yang Yuanhong's offer and brought him into the tribe despite the soldiers' and cultivators' suspicions.
• Three tribal cultivators protested against trusting an outsider, so Yang Yuanhong released a crushing pressure to stop them from delaying Amingu's treatment.

Yang Yuanhong healed Amingu and convinced Nalran’s tribe that he was a savior sent by the gods, using his dragon form and Chen Yang’s illusion of divine light. He led the tribe to the Sacrificial Plaza, where he saw a motionless totem made of three wooden and stone carvings.

• Yang Yuanhong flew to Amingu and healed his severe injuries, restoring his soul bones without leaving a scar.
• Nalran and the three barbarian cultivators apologized for their earlier suspicion, and Yang Yuanhong forgave them and refused a reward.
• Yang Yuanhong claimed the gods had sent him to deliver the tribe from suffering, then revealed his divine mark and acquired Dragon-attributed variant body as Chen Yang created the illusion of divine light.
• Nalran led Yang Yuanhong toward the Sacrificial Plaza as the tribe’s residents knelt, and Yang Yuanhong healed their injuries along the way.
• A crowd gathered at the Sacrificial Plaza, where Yang Yuanhong saw three wooden and stone carvings standing together as a lifeless-looking totem.

Yang Yuanhong activated the tribe’s totem and restored its blessings, prompting the villagers and cultivators to celebrate as Nalran approached enlightenment. Chen Yang discovered that the totem’s original blessings carried hidden costs and concluded that three Divine Path creatures had created the Barbarian Lands, leaving him eager to investigate a possible inheritance of divine arts.

• Nalran told Yang Yuanhong that the tribe had received no divine blessings for five years and had been told the gods abandoned them for lacking devotion.
• Yang Yuanhong activated the sacrificial totem, bringing rain of blessings that restored water, plants, livestock, and crops throughout the tribe.
• The blessing helped three younger barbarian cultivators break through, while Nalran entered a state of divine revelation and neared a breakthrough.
• Chen Yang realized the totem used faith power to produce miracles, but its usual blessings forced growth and healing at the cost of the barbarians’ lifespans.
• Chen Yang sensed faith power flowing in three directions and concluded that three Divine Path creatures had jointly created the Barbarian Lands.
• Chen Yang suspected the land might contain an inheritance of divine arts and decided he needed to investigate it.

Nalran reached Beast Soul Tier 6 and gained a divine mark after Yang Yuanhong’s blessing ritual, while the tribe accepted Yang Yuanhong as the Venerable Lord. After replacing the decayed totem with a new stone tablet, Yang Yuanhong prepared to bring his faith to the other tribes, and Nalran vowed to help him save all those suffering.

• Nalran emerged from enlightenment at Beast Soul Tier 6 with a crimson divine mark that greatly increased his strength.
• The tribe knelt to thank Yang Yuanhong, who told Nalran that their decayed totem had given its final blessing.
• Yang Yuanhong gave Nalran a stone tablet inscribed with the ancient script for “Divine Lord,” and Nalran’s men replaced the old totem with it.
• After the divine envoys left the region, Yang Yuanhong studied a map of the twelve tribes and chose to approach the two strongest first.
• Yang Yuanhong told Nalran that he intended to save all people suffering hardship, and Nalran vowed to accompany him.

Nalran brought Yang Yuanhong to the Rock Hammer Tribe and claimed he was the Venerable Lord, the gods’ incarnation in the mortal world. After Nalran demonstrated his divine mark and power, Yang Yuanhong manifested his Black Dragon Variant Body, winning the tribe’s worship.

• Nalran and Yang Yuanhong arrived at the Rock Hammer Tribe, where Chieftain Wudan and the other cultivators questioned Nalran’s unexpected visit.
• Nalran introduced Yang Yuanhong as the Venerable Lord, prompting Wudan to attack the outsider.
• Nalran stopped Wudan’s punch and revealed his divine mark, then demonstrated his beast transformation and flame abilities.
• Yang Yuanhong displayed his Dragon Imprint and manifested the Black Dragon Variant Body before the tribe.
• Wudan and the Rock Hammer Tribe cultivators knelt and worshiped Yang Yuanhong.

Yang Yuanhong and Chen Yang brought the Rock Hammer Tribe and Lightning Horn Tribe under their faith, healing Wudan’s wife and replacing the tribes’ totems with Divine Lord Stone Tablets. In the White Wolf Royal Capital, priests sent accumulated evil power toward the Northwest borderlands to punish the twelve tribes, unaware that they had just pledged themselves to Chen Yang.

• Yang Yuanhong asked Wudan about his bedridden wife, and Chen Yang recognized that Mina was being consumed by accumulated resentment power.
• Chen Yang gently removed the resentment power from Mina and restored her strength, and Wudan and Mina wept with joy.
• Chen Yang blessed the Rock Hammer Tribe, replaced its totem with a Divine Lord Stone Tablet, and gave Wudan a divine mark that let him control soil.
• Wudan and Nalran accompanied Yang Yuanhong to the Lightning Horn Tribe, whose chieftain submitted after seeing their divine marks, and the tribe accepted the new faith.
• Yang Yuanhong returned to the Hunting Spear Tribe, where tribal leaders gathered and received stone tablets that changed the faith of all twelve borderland tribes.
• Priests at the Descent Divine Temple decided to release their gathered evil power in the Northwest borderlands to punish the tribes for resisting sacrifices.

Divine officials unleashed resentment, earthquakes, and a Beast Tide to destroy the twelve borderland tribes, but Chen Yang detected the attack and warned the Hunting Spear Tribe of the coming beasts. Nalran spread Venerable Lord’s prophecy to the other tribes as Amingu led an expedition into the mountains to investigate.

• Divine officials sent three calamities toward the twelve tribes, expecting plague, earthquakes, and barbarian beasts to wipe them out.
• Chen Yang absorbed the resentment from the sky and underground, realized the divine envoys’ superiors were trying to destroy the tribes, and foresaw a Beast Tide.
• Chen Yang alerted Yang Yuanhong, who summoned Nalran and Amingu and told them that a barbarian beast calamity was coming.
• Amingu took two Beast Soul Tier 2 cultivators into the deep mountains to investigate, while Nalran carried the prophecy stone tablet to warn the other tribes.
• The leaders of the remaining eleven tribes believed the prophecy after seeing the tablet and hearing that Venerable Lord had spoken it.

After warning the twelve tribes of an approaching savage beast invasion, the Venerable Lord helped them prepare for a battle far more dangerous than previous attacks. As a powerful flying savage beast descended on the Hunting Spear Tribe, the Venerable Lord appeared beside Nalran and the beast was suddenly torn in half.

• Chen Yang learned that savage beasts were creatures born from resentful power and that their invasions had become more frequent and powerful.
• After three days of preparation, the twelve tribes learned that the savage beasts had descended from the mountains.
• Nalran led the Hunting Spear Tribe's defense and intercepted powerful beasts, while the tribes were forced back by relentless waves of attackers.
• A flying savage beast with Blood Pattern Realm strength appeared above the Hunting Spear Tribe, but Amingu rallied the warriors by invoking the Venerable Lord.
• Nalran prepared to face the flying beast as the Venerable Lord appeared beside him, and the beast was ripped in half by an unseen force.

Chen Yang and Yang Yuanhong helped the twelve border tribes survive the Beast Tide, then sent them to rescue neighboring tribes and spread their faith. As the Descent Divine Temple dispatched Judgment Divine Envoys to investigate, the envoys unknowingly headed toward their deaths.

• Yang Yuanhong killed one Blood Pattern Realm savage beast, and the Faith Stone Tablets erased another while protecting the other eleven tribes.
• Chen Yang used divine power and the Faith Stone Tablets to aid the tribes until the Beast Tide receded at dawn.
• The twelve tribes received orders to support neighboring settlements and rescued eight tribes from savage beast attacks.
• The eight rescued tribes learned of the divine miracles, adopted the small stone tablets, and built new Faith Stone Tablets.
• The priests at the Descent Divine Temple suspected heresy and sent a Judgment Squad of Blood Pattern Realm envoys to investigate.
• The Judgment Divine Envoys left for the western border region, never to return.

Lorraine led four Judgment Divine Envoys on foot through frontier tribes to investigate their hardships and the reported blessing at a tribe that survived a calamity. As her companions began doubting the temple’s teachings, Lorraine concealed her own long-standing conclusions and approached the frontier hoping to uncover the truth behind divine blessings and the Descent Period.

• Lorraine persuaded her four teammates to travel on foot and investigate the tribes surrounding their destination.
• Lorraine and her companions found that heavy tributes and years without blessings had left lower-tier tribes impoverished and stagnating.
• The four teammates questioned the priests’ claim that the tribes lacked blessings because they were not devout enough, and Lorraine calmed them by suggesting the priests might have been misinformed.
• Lorraine privately recalled discovering that the Book of Gods had been compiled by temple archbishops to reinforce royal and temple authority.
• Lorraine reflected that she had joined the investigation to learn why priests caused the calamities and to verify reports that a distant tribe had survived one and received a divine blessing.