Recaps

Chen Yang accepted Penglai Palace’s gifts and offered to investigate the mysterious amber containing the power of time. After secretly extracting half its temporal force, he demonstrated the Lagging Light Divine Technique to Ninth Abyss Venerable, leaving the latter to experience its effects.

• Chen Yang accepted Ninth Abyss Venerable’s gifts after offering to help examine the Dragon Transformation Pool treasure.
• Ninth Abyss Venerable brought Chen Yang to the secret location where the amber was stored and explained its origins.
• Chen Yang consulted Liuli about Heavenly Heart Wood and pretended to study the amber while secretly boring an opening into it.
• Chen Yang spent half a month transferring half the amber’s force of time to his true body.
• Chen Yang released a small portion of the force of time toward Ninth Abyss Venerable and used the Lagging Light Divine Technique on him.

Chen Yang used the Lagging Light Divine Technique on Ninth Abyss Venerable and secretly sent a trace of time aura into his body while pretending to help him study the mysterious amber. Ninth Abyss Venerable then told Chen Yang that Venerable Shu Xi wanted his help reopening the Xi Yan Immortal Mansion’s Heavenly Fire Secret Realm, whose restoration could revive the Five Directions Immortal Mansion’s linked secret realms.

• Chen Yang froze time around Ninth Abyss Venerable, exhausting his divine power with help from Liuli, and infused him with a trace of time aura.
• Chen Yang claimed that he and Ninth Abyss Venerable had shared a fleeting insight into Time Daoist Magic, then offered guidance drawn from his experience in the River of Time.
• Ninth Abyss Venerable told Chen Yang that Venerable Shu Xi had invited him to help open the Xi Yan Immortal Mansion’s Heavenly Fire Secret Realm.
• Ninth Abyss Venerable explained that the Five Directions Immortal Mansion’s linked secret realms and Five Elements phenomenon had faded after the Xi Yan Mystic Insight Venerable entered the Dao-Evasion Land and the Heavenly Fire Secret Realm fell dormant.
• The Xi Yan Immortal Mansion’s True Intent cultivators spent generations researching the sealed realm and rekindled its sacred fire ten years earlier, raising hopes that the Five Directions Secret Realms could be linked again.

Chen Yang learned that the Five Directions Immortal Mansion could not break the barrier around the Heavenly Fire Secret Realm and concluded that a corrupted Divine Path creature inside was sealing it to protect its descendants. He agreed to help Xi Yan Immortal Mansion in exchange for several entry slots, and the party prepared to travel there.

• Ninth Abyss Venerable told Chen Yang that even Great Venerables had failed to break the Secret Realm's spatial barrier.
• Chen Yang suspected a Divine Path creature inside had sealed the Secret Realm because its berserk state threatened cultivators who entered.
• Ninth Abyss Venerable urged Chen Yang to help Xi Yan Immortal Mansion, citing the failing Sacred Flame and the approaching Great Competition of Two Daos.
• Chen Yang accepted and asked for several Secret Realm entry slots instead of the Five Elements Supreme Treasure.
• Venerable Shu Xi rejoiced at Chen Yang's agreement, while Venerable Xuan You concluded his visit after confirming Chen Yang leaned toward the righteous side.
• Venerable Xuan You opened a spatial passage to Xi Yan Immortal Mansion, shortening the journey from ten days to five.

Chen Yang arrived at the Xi Yan Immortal Mansion with Venerable Shu Xi and used his power to strengthen its fading Sacred Flame. He found the Secret Realm’s barrier resisting him and gently reassured the frightened presence within as he reached out to it.

• Chen Yang arranged for Nangong Jinghe to hold three blessing rituals so he could replenish his divine power, while Nangong Jinghe continued to experience brief losses of contact with his split soul.
• Yang Yuanhong and Long Yuan set out for the Dragon Transformation Pool under Mystic Armor Venerable’s protection, seeking opportunities to advance Yang Yuanhong’s dragon body.
• Chen Yang and Venerable Shu Xi arrived at the Xi Yan Immortal Mansion, where the sect’s cultivators welcomed Chen Yang and explained that the Sacred Flame was too weak to open the Secret Realm.
• Chen Yang infused the Sacred Flame with a wisp of power, making it blaze strongly enough to burn through the clouds.
• Chen Yang entered the Sacred Flame, found the Secret Realm’s barrier tightening, and sent the message, “Don’t be afraid. I’m here.”

Chen Yang entered the Heavenly Fire Secret Realm without breaking its spatial barrier, astonishing Venerable Shu Xi and the Xi Yan Immortal Mansion cultivators. He endured the realm’s deadly heavenly fire and headed toward the source of its pervasive resentment.

• Chen Yang sensed the Xi Yan Immortal Mansion cultivators’ prayers and used their affinity with the Secret Realm to pass through its spatial barrier.
• Venerable Shu Xi realized Chen Yang had entered the Heavenly Fire Secret Realm and explained that its spatial aberration had to be resolved from within.
• The Xi Yan Immortal Mansion cultivators pledged to remember Chen Yang’s aid, and Venerable Shu Xi urged them to strengthen their own disciples.
• Chen Yang arrived inside the Secret Realm, protected himself with his stone body and Black Armor, and found the realm scorched by heavenly fire.
• Chen Yang sensed the resentment filling the Secret Realm, located its source, and flew toward it.

Chen Yang found the Heavenly Fire Secret Realm’s Divine Path creature, Yan Ming, on the verge of being consumed by a Crimson Flame Mad Spirit. After destroying the Mad Spirit and cleansing its sparks, Chen Yang revived Yan Ming with divine power, and Yan Ming thanked him for saving his life.

• Chen Yang reached the golden great sun and learned that Yan Ming had sealed away his untainted self to resist the Crimson Flame Mad Spirit.
• Chen Yang used the Bright Mirror and white jade tower to tear the Mad Spirit from Yan Ming and draw it into a grand hall.
• The Mad Spirit collapsed under the pressure of the beings in the hall, and Chen Yang sent the Secret Realm’s resentment into the tower.
• Liuli purified the Mad Spirit’s sparks into divine fire essence and told Chen Yang that Yan Ming had first-rate talent in the Dao of Fire.
• Chen Yang gave Yan Ming half of his limited divine power, restoring him, and Yan Ming thanked Chen Yang and bowed.

Chen Yang helped Yan Ming form a spirit body and learned how the Secret Realm Divine Being had gained consciousness and resisted inner demons. After Yan Ming revealed a golden flame, Chen Yang recognized it as a new power formed from the fusion of Heaven and Earth True Essence and divine power, then took Yan Ming to Canglan Divine Palace.

• Chen Yang guided Yan Ming to condense a golden spirit body from the great sun.
• Yan Ming recounted how he fused the power left by a dead Spirit of the Secret Realm, gained control over opportunities and trials, and used cultivators’ positive emotions to resist inner demons.
• Yan Ming explained that he had relied on Zhen Xuan within his body to suppress the inner demons after cultivators stopped entering the Secret Realm two hundred years earlier.
• Yan Ming showed Chen Yang a golden flame that he believed was his Zhen Xuan.
• Chen Yang recognized the flame as a new power born from the fusion of Heaven and Earth True Essence and divine power, then took Yan Ming to Canglan Divine Palace.

Yan Ming awakened the memories of his divine origins after Chen Yang rescued him from the Secret Realm and brought him to the Cambang Divine Palace. Chen Yang accepted him into the divine congregation and assigned him to Liuli's secret cultivation branch, where his talent could advance the Dao Integration plan.

• Chen Yang's divine power and the Cambang Divine Palace awakened Yan Ming's buried memories, revealing that he was a cultivator of the Divine Dao.
• Fu Yin introduced herself as the Reception Divine Official and used the Illusory Colors Divine Technique to help Yan Ming quickly digest his memories.
• Fu Yin led Yan Ming into the Cambang Divine Palace, where the Bright Mirror welcomed him and cleansed his mind and spirit.
• Chen Yang formally accepted Yan Ming as a divine envoy in the secret cultivation branch, and Yan Ming pledged to serve the Cambang Divine Dao.
• Chen Yang assigned Yan Ming to Liuli's charge, recognizing that his talent in Dao Integration could help advance a cultivation method for human cultivators.

Chen Yang and the gods of the Canglan Divine Palace rebuilt the ruined Heavenly Fire Secret Realm in ten days, and Yan Ming agreed to guide their future cultivation. As the spatial barrier began to recede, the Xi Yan Immortal Mansion cultivators realized the disaster had been resolved and prepared to study the rare spatial changes.

• Chen Yang ordered the Canglan Divine Hosts to restore the Heavenly Fire Secret Realm, and they rebuilt it with Yan Ming's help in ten days.
• Chen Yang told Yan Ming that the gods had rebuilt the Secret Realm partly to support Yan Ming's cultivation, and Yan Ming promised to guide their Dao attainment and divine arts.
• Chen Yang prepared to leave the Secret Realm and report back to the Xi Yan Immortal Mansion cultivators waiting outside.
• Venerable Shu Xi sensed the spatial barrier receding and summoned three True Intent Cultivators to observe and comprehend the changes.
• The three cultivators realized that the source of the disaster had been uprooted, and Venerable Shu Xi ordered them to focus on the spatial changes before giving in to their emotions.

Chen Yang observed Yan Ming use true fire to fuse true essence and divine power into Dao Integration power, which granted control over space. After Yan Ming opened the Secret Realm entrance, Chen Yang planned his next steps for cultivating and preparing his descendants.

• Chen Yang realized that true fire was the key ingredient allowing Yan Ming to perfectly fuse two different powers into Dao Integration power.
• Chen Yang considered how cultivators might absorb Dao Integration power, but judged himself and Yang Yuanxing to be the only promising candidates and decided to wait until Yang Yuanxing had descendants.
• Chen Yang planned to send Ling Rui to the Southwest and later take Huai'an, Lin Qiao, Yuan Ning, and Yuan Zhao to the Twilight Ancient Path before the Five Directions Immortal Mansion assembly.
• Yan Ming removed the spatial barriers sealing the Secret Realm entrance and reported to Chen Yang that it could be opened normally.
• Chen Yang ordered Yan Ming to study the Li Fire lineage under Liuli before the assembly, then left the Secret Realm.

Chen Yang explained how his damaged statue had helped the Xi Yan Immortal Mansion and proposed that the five Immortal Mansions nurture it with their grand phenomenon in hopes of reforging it. The four Venerables agreed to hear his request, and he asked them to enshrine and worship the statue at their mountain gates.

• The three other Immortal Mansion Venerables arrived at the Xi Yan Immortal Mansion, and Chen Yang invited them to meet him.
• Chen Yang showed the Venerables the cracked scarlet statue and explained that its power had resolved the spatial barrier.
• The Venerables offered to repay Chen Yang and assist him with their treasures.
• Chen Yang recounted how the statue had protected his disciple and regained a spark of life in the Heavenly Fire Secret Realm.
• Chen Yang asked the five Immortal Mansions to enshrine and regularly nurture the statue with their grand phenomenon.

Chen Yang secured the Five Directions Immortal Mansion as a place for Blood Sun Venerable God to receive offerings and cultivate, leaving his statue in its care. He departed after telling the cultivators the Heavenly Fire Secret Realm would need two years to recover and asking them to host young members of the Yang Clan.

• The five Immortal Estate cultivators praised Chen Yang for asking only that his magic treasure be honored at the Immortal Mansion, and they promised to care for it.
• Chen Yang arranged for Blood Sun Venerable God to receive the Five Directions Immortal Mansion’s offerings through the statue, giving him a source of divine power.
• Chen Yang handed the statue to Venerable Shu Xi and said he would return when it regained its spirit.
• Chen Yang told the five that the Heavenly Fire Secret Realm would take two years to recover and asked them to look after young members of the Yang Clan when they arrived.
• The Immortal Estate cultivators watched Chen Yang vanish and marveled at his methods, while Venerable Shu Xi recalled his fearsome battle above the East Sea.

Luo Qianchou recalled Lin Qiao from the Southwest front and learned that the Central Region would send Nangong Jinghe to serve under his command. Three months later, Lin Qiao returned to the Northwest, where the Yang Clan organized the factions preparing to enter the Twilight Ancient Path.

• Luo Qianchou recalled Lin Qiao after receiving Venerable Xuan You's account of Chen Yang's deeds and reflected on Canglan Continent's rising generation.
• Bai Chuan reported that the Central Region rejected Luo Qianchou's transfer requests and chose Nangong Jinghe as its sole candidate for the Southwest.
• Luo Qianchou placed Nangong Jinghe under his direct command and anticipated meeting the mysterious cultivator on the eastern front.
• Three months later, Jia Huarai met Lin Qiao at the regional border and escorted her to the northern snow mountains.
• Yang Lingqing coordinated the Northwest factions for the Twilight Ancient Path, and the factions lined up according to the Yang Clan's instructions.

Yang Clan cultivators gathered aboard the Yang Clan immortal vessel before entering an Ancient Path, while Zhao Che and Huang Ying advised the young disciples to stay cautious. Zhao Qi and the Yangyuan Peak elders watched the clan’s flourishing scene as Yang Yuancheng arrived.

• Zhao Che warned the young Yangyuan Peak disciples to remain wary of other cultivators when they entered the Secret Realm.
• Huang Ying agreed with Zhao Che’s advice, then teased him as the two exchanged familiar banter.
• Zhao Qi and the Yangyuan Peak seniors watched Zhao Che and Huang Ying, and Zhao Qi said he hoped to pass on his Peak Master duties after they were trained.
• Xie Chuan reflected on how the Xie family’s fortunes had changed since Solitary Moon Mountain’s cultivators stormed their ancestral residence.
• Yang Yuancheng arrived at the main tower, where Zhao Qi welcomed him and the Yangyuan Peak cultivators returned his salute respectfully.

Yang Lingqing finalized the Yang Clan cultivators’ groups for the Twilight Ancient Path, then summoned Yang Yuanwen and urged him to accept the status and responsibility represented by Chengzuo Peak’s core disciple robe. She left him recognizing that he was one of only two true disciples of the Immortal Venerable in the clan.

• Yang Lingqing presented Zhao Qi, Elder Yu, Chen Huaien, and Liu Zihao with her detailed assignments for the cultivators entering the Twilight Ancient Path, and they approved them.
• The western branch leaders distributed the group assignments and ancient path information, prompting the disciples to find their companions and coordinate.
• Yang Yuanwen received a summons from Yang Lingqing and was told to wear the white dharma robe of Chengzuo Peak’s core disciples in the ancient path.
• Yang Yuanwen hesitated, but Yang Lingqing showed him a jade slip matching the secret conversation he had overheard and recounted his achievements in Talisman Techniques.
• Yang Lingqing told Yang Yuanwen that only he and Yang Yuanhong could be called disciples of the Immortal Venerable, and Yang Yuanwen acknowledged that he was the second.

Yang Lingqing helped Yang Yuanwen overcome his self-doubt and prepare to prove himself on the Twilight Ancient Path. The chapter ended with Lin Qiao returning to the Yang Clan immortal vessel after years on the Southwest front.

• Yang Lingqing reminded Yang Yuanwen of his potential and encouraged him to pursue his cultivation without comparing himself to the clan’s prodigies.
• Yang Yuanwen accepted the white Dharma robe, changed into it with talisman magic, and regained his determination.
• Yang Lingqing sensed a visitor through the formation token and recognized that her girl Qiao had returned.
• Jia Huarai escorted Lin Qiao through the grand formation before returning to the Tiger Chasing Dynasty’s immortal vessel.
• Lin Qiao suppressed her battle-hardened aura, greeted the Peak Masters and seniors, and bowed to Yang Lingqing.

Yang Lingqing welcomed Lin Qiao home from years of demon-slaying on the Southwest front and praised her as a model for the Yang Clan’s younger generation. In private, Lin Qiao finally confessed how much she missed home and how deeply the fighting had burdened her, and Yang Lingqing reassured her that she would always be the Yang Clan’s pride.

• Yang Lingqing praised Lin Qiao’s accomplishments and told her the Yang Clan was proud of her.
• Lin Qiao credited her progress to her own efforts, her companions’ support, and the family’s aid, while honoring the cultivators still fighting in the Southwest.
• The young Yang Clan cultivators were inspired by Lin Qiao’s words and vowed to work for the Lineage.
• Yang Lingqing embraced Lin Qiao and listened as she confessed that she missed home and struggled with the dangers and deaths she had witnessed.
• Yang Lingqing comforted Lin Qiao and told her she would always be her pride and the pride of the Yang Clan.

Yang Lingqing gave Lin Qiao and the four other Yang Clan candidates instructions before their entry into the Twilight Ancient Path. With the path open and its entrance stable, the five entered ahead of the other Northwest factions.

• Lin Qiao changed into a white Dharma robe, reunited with her siblings, and exchanged greetings with Yang Yuanwen.
• Yang Lingqing warned the five core candidates that they would have to overcome the Twilight Ancient Path's trials of talent, perseverance, and luck themselves.
• Yang Lingqing cautioned Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao about rival Twelfth Layer Qi Gathering geniuses from the Tiger Chasing Dynasty and Donglai Sect.
• Yang Lingqing told Yang Yuanwen, Lin Qiao, and Chen Huai'an that the first to obtain the treasure could claim a fortune prepared by their Immortal Venerable, prompting them to compete.
• Dong Ruoyin and Jia Huarai announced that the Twilight Ancient Path entrance was stable, and Yang Lingqing led the five candidates inside.

Chen Huaien and Tao Yuan entered the Rising Sun Realm with Northwest True Persons, then stayed behind to wait for a treasure and traded boasts about their coming duel. Meanwhile, Chen Yang’s arrangements intensified competition in the lower realms, where Lin Qiao faced Yang Yuanwen and Chen Huai'an in a two-on-one contest.

• Chen Huaien joined Tao Yuan and other Northwest True Persons as they entered the Rising Sun Realm, where the group used techniques as cover to split up.
• Chen Huaien and Tao Yuan stayed behind, agreed to wait for a treasure, and bickered over who would win their eventual fight.
• Chen Yang’s arrangements made opportunities easier to find in the Waning Moon and Starlight Realms, increasing competition and encouraging alliances and negotiations.
• Cultivators in the Waning Moon Realm avoided Lin Qiao, Yang Yuanwen, and Chen Huai'an, allowing the latter two to test Lin Qiao’s limits in a two-on-one contest.

Zhao Che and the Yang Clan pieced together the hidden patterns behind the Ancient Path opportunity sites and concluded that three Ancient Path Treasures were concealed in the Starlight Realm. After assigning allies to negotiate access to two regions, they considered how to compete with the Tiger Chasing Dynasty for the treasure in the largest region.

• Zhao Che and Huang Ying divided the Starlight Realm into three regions after finding patterns in the opportunity sites, and Zhao Che suspected the treasures would appear only when hidden conditions were met.
• Zhao Che gathered intelligence for five days, then summoned Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao to review his map of the regions.
• Yang Yuanling identified missing star positions in the first region, and Huang Ying marked them while explaining that Yingxian Gate and Chuyun Pavilion had occupied the sites; Yang Yuanling agreed to negotiate with them.
• Zhao Che assigned Huang Ying to negotiate with the Donglai Sect over the vortex-shaped second region, where opportunity sites needed to be activated from the outside inward.
• Zhao Che warned that the Tiger Chasing Dynasty controlled most of the largest region and said the Yang Clan needed to act before its cultivators uncovered the treasure's location.

Yang Yuanwen, Lin Qiao, and Chen Huai'an accidentally revealed a supreme treasure in the Waning Moon Realm, prompting Chen Yang to release two more hidden treasures. As cultivators raced toward all three manifestations, Lin Qiao and Chen Huai'an split off to leave Yang Yuanwen the heavenly palace trial.

• Yang Yuanzhao assured Zhao Che that he could seize territory from Tiger Chasing within five days, and Zhao Che let him choose cultivators for the mission.
• Yang Yuanling, Huang Ying, and Yang Yuanzhao led three teams out to search for possible supreme treasures.
• Lin Qiao and the other two Yang Clan cultivators blasted open the concealment around a treasure, causing a replica heavenly palace to appear in the Waning Moon Realm.
• Chen Yang told Ku Yun to reveal two more hidden treasures, and a roaming dragon and a deep pool manifested.
• Cultivators from across the Waning Moon Realm raced toward the three treasures, while Lin Qiao and Chen Huai'an split up to seek the dragon and the pool.
• Yang Yuanwen entered the heavenly palace alone to face its trial.

Zhuo Hanqing discovered and claimed a cold-intent treasure beneath a glacier, then entered a mysterious stone door that appeared nearby. Meanwhile, Chen Huaien and Tao Yuan awaited the Rising Sun Realm treasure’s emergence, as two pillars of light swept aside the other cultivators and plunged into the sun.

• Zhuo Hanqing found a jade-like treasure filled with pure cold intent beneath a glacier and chose to meditate there after setting warnings and a false body.
• A stone door appeared behind Zhuo Hanqing, and after probing it for danger, he entered through it.
• Chen Huaien and Tao Yuan called their literary contest a draw as an eclipse signaled the Rising Sun Realm treasure’s imminent emergence.
• More than a dozen True Person cultivators gathered beneath the darkened sun, but green and white pillars of light scattered them and entered the sun.

Tao Yuan, Chen Huaien, Lin Qiao, and Chen Huai'an entered the talent trial of the Supreme Treasure Trial and climbed its towering mountain. Lin Qiao and Chen Huai'an raced ahead at an astonishing pace, shattering the confidence of young cultivators who had mistaken their abilities for ordinary.

• Tao Yuan reflected on his fortune and his bond with Shen Yue before beginning his climb up the talent trial's mountain.
• Chen Huaien climbed calmly and reached the summit first, ahead of Tao Yuan, and the two entered the next trial together.
• Spiritual Connection cultivators struggled up the mountain as the trial tested their talent and strained their states of mind.
• Lin Qiao and Chen Huai'an stepped onto their mountain paths, and the mountain trembled as they surged toward the summits.
• Lin Qiao and Chen Huai'an overtook the cultivators ahead of them, forcing young Demon Extermination Squad cultivators to recognize how greatly they had underestimated the pair.

Chen Yang watched the Ancient Path trials and considered Yang Yuanwen’s unusual talent in talisman techniques as the young cultivator began the Trial of Fortune. Ku Yun predicted Yang Yuanwen would fall short of crossing the heavenly chasm, leaving Chen Yang to watch and wonder whether he had misjudged the boy’s fortune.

• Chen Yang told Ku Yun not to interfere in any contests for the Ancient Path Treasures and observed the fierce competition in the Starlight Realm.
• Chen Yang was surprised when Huang Ying became the first in the Starlight Realm to reach the peak of the talent mountain, and considered taking her to the Central Region for further study.
• Yang Yuanwen passed the trial of perseverance and reached the Cliff of Fortune.
• Chen Yang recalled Yang Yuanwen’s exceptional achievements in talisman techniques, including creating the Talisman Beast Method and writing the Talisman Technique Evolution Secret.
• Ku Yun judged that Yang Yuanwen lacked enough fortune to cross the heavenly chasm and predicted he would fall two-thirds of the way across.
• Yang Yuanwen began flying toward the distant platform on his thin wings as Chen Yang wondered whether he had misjudged him.

Yang Yuanwen risked his life to claim a True Intent Formless Manifestation, and the remaining supreme treasures across the three realms were won. The chapter ended with Chen Yang learning that the unfamiliar victor in Huang Ying’s Trial Ground was Han Feng Yang.

• Yang Yuanwen used his body as the foundation for the talisman beast method, grew talismanic wings, and struggled through the gale toward the high platform.
• Yang Yuanwen severed his lower body to escape the tornado, reached the platform, and seized the True Intent Formless Manifestation, which restored him.
• Yang Yuanwen sent Chen Yang a faint transmission saying that he had succeeded, and Chen Yang praised his disciple.
• Lin Qiao, Huai'an, and Zhuo Hanqing claimed the other three True Intent Formless Manifestations in the Waning Moon Realm.
• Tao Yuan defeated Chen Huaien in the Rising Sun Realm by using the Yang Clan’s radiant-light treasure to resist a fatal soul attack and counterattack.
• Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao won the Starlight Realm treasure, while Huang Ying failed the fortune trial and Han Feng Yang won her Trial Ground.