Recaps

Yang Yuanhong received the Eye-Pointing Formula and an Ancient Dragon Horn to advance his dragon body cultivation at Penglai Palace. The Five Elements Secret Realm ended, and Xuan Youli shared her true fire with senior cultivators of the Xi Yan Immortal Mansion.

• The Ninth Abyss Venerable read the jade slip from the Nangong Clan and understood that it contained dragon cultivation intelligence and an Ancient Dragon Horn for Yang Yuanhong.
• The Mystic Armor Venerable returned to Penglai Palace with two juniors, and the Sea Suppressing Venerable brought Yang Yuanhong into the Dragonkin Forbidden Ground.
• Hai Liu'er gave Yang Yuanhong the Eye-Pointing Formula and explained how the Ancient Dragon Horn could help him complete his final dragon body advancement.
• Yang Yuanhong promised Hai Liu'er that he would support Long Yuan and share future opportunities with him before entering a grotto-heaven to cultivate.
• The Five Elements Secret Realm ended, and Chen Huai'an, Lin Qiao, Xuan Youli, Ge Xiao, and Mu Yunshu received inheritances from the Five Elements Dharma Disc.
• Xuan Youli visited high-level cultivators of the Xi Yan Immortal Mansion and gifted them some of the true fire she had obtained.

Shen Yue and Baili Fusang reflected on the cost of the war between the Righteous and Demonic Paths as they prepared to return to the front lines. Shen Yue left with a firmer resolve to uphold his convictions and put his understanding into practice.

• Baili Fusang found Shen Yue watching the demon lands from an observation tower at Demon Suppression Pass.
• The chapter recounted how Shen Yue and Baili Fusang became close friends and studied Confucian writings together at Ruyi Immortal Valley.
• Shen Yue wondered how many people would die in the war and argued that it would have no true winner.
• Baili Fusang warned that refusing to fight would leave ordinary people at the mercy of demonic cultivators.
• Shen Yue said he would never yield on the treatment of ordinary people and realized he was beginning to understand the unity of knowledge and action.

Bai Di’s side used a secret mission as bait to expose traitors at Demon Suppression Pass and draw out a Demonic Path target. As Xuan Youli and four other Gold Ranking prodigies left as backup, an unseen senior confronted the suspected spy, who tried to convince himself that he remained undiscovered.

• Bai Di learned that the secret support mission had leaked and used Baili Fusang as bait in a trap for the traitor and a larger Demonic Path target.
• The righteous leaders’ covert investigation exposed two more people who had grown restless while the intelligence channel was being watched.
• Xuan Youli secretly led Yu Shuang, Liu Yanqing, Dongfang Yinghao, and Teng Shechuan from Demon Suppression Pass as a five-person reserve team.
• A True Intent Perfection cultivator returned to his quarters and sensed an unseen senior watching him through Spatial Daoist Magic.
• The suspected spy greeted the senior and privately reasoned that he had not been exposed, since he had used a True Intent cultivator from the dynasty to pass the information.

Ye Chenfeng delivered a captured Primordial Spirit to Venerable Xiu Zhu, completing the requirements for a soul-suppressing magical treasure that could take up to three years to forge. At the Talisman Mountain encampment, Ling Shuang confronted Mo Yunzhou after he took the soul-related items Ling Shuang had brought and tried to send him away.

• Ye Chenfeng killed a man, sealed his Primordial Spirit in a jade-green gourd, and brought it to Venerable Xiu Zhu at Hundred Artifacts Tower.
• Ye Chenfeng proposed that the man’s death be reported as a sacrifice after a failed secret assassination mission, and Venerable Xiu Zhu accepted the explanation.
• Venerable Xiu Zhu said the Primordial Spirit supplied the final piece for a soul-suppressing magical treasure, which he expected to complete within three years.
• Ling Shuang arrived at Talisman Mountain with two soul-related items, but Mo Yunzhou used a transposition technique to take them and told Ling Shuang to leave.
• Ling Shuang insisted he needed to enter the tower for guidance on talisman arts, then threatened Mo Yunzhou for provoking him.

He Shenglai arrived at the southwestern front and sought an audience with the fate official, using his long whip as proof of his connection. He reunited with Xue Qingluan at the young master's private camp and congratulated her on her progress.

• He Shenglai told Sui Changjiang he had come to visit the fate official and offered him his long whip to carry inside.
• Sui Changjiang learned of He Shenglai's relationship with the fate official and returned to invite him into the camp.
• Xue Qingluan welcomed He Shenglai at the entrance to the private camp after sending Sui Changjiang away.
• He Shenglai briefly marveled at how much Xue Qingluan had changed, then congratulated her on her improved cultivation and Dao arts.

Yang Lingrui reunited with He Shenglai over wine, and the two reminisced about their years together until they passed out. Yun Xiwu arranged for He Shenglai to rest and prepared battle reports about the demon lands to help with the purpose of his visit.

• Yang Lingrui gave He Shenglai spiritual wine, and they drank while recalling their shared past.
• Yun Xiwu found Yang Lingrui and He Shenglai drunk, sent Xue Qingluan to settle He Shenglai in a guest room, and helped Yang Lingrui into his cave dwelling.
• Yun Xiwu asked Xue Qingluan whether He Shenglai had been settled and gave her selected battle reports to pass to him when he woke.
• Xue Qingluan had already learned that He Shenglai sought information about the demon lands for the He Family, which cultivated wood arts and spiritual plants.

He Shenglai was assigned to a squad as the Demonic Path launched an all-out assault on the Southwest front. The chapter explained how the Demonic Path assembled its forces for the counterattack, including lifespan-sacrificing cultivators and a vast horde of corpses.

• Luo Qianchou arrived at the encampment and selected He Shenglai for a major operation.
• He Shenglai and Chen Huaien joined Long Yuan's squad for combat drills in a grotto-heaven.
• Seven days into the drills, an urgent order sent every squad to its battlefield as demonic clouds approached.
• He Shenglai and the other borderland cultivators rushed to defend the Southwest line while the Demonic Path attacked Demon Suppression Pass in the Central Region.
• More than forty percent of the Demonic Path's cultivators had sacrificed lifespan to raise their cultivation, while many others fought to retain Bai Di's protection and earn merit.
• The Ten Thousand Corpses Demon Cave supplied a vast horde of Blood Corpses, corpse puppets, and corpse ghosts, with a few intelligent Arcane Corpses hidden among them.

The righteous and demonic forces fought a war that would shape Canglan Continent’s fortune, while Baili Fusang’s squad reached the eastern war zone to target a powerful Demon Child. Baili Fusang concealed his squad near the enemy positions and prepared for the danger of the Demon Child’s hidden protectors.

• Gold Ranking talents were scattered across the vast front, while Xiao Huai and Chi Tian carried out special assignments alone.
• The war’s victories and defeats shaped competing torrents of fortune and would settle Chen Yang and Wu Chang’s wager.
• Baili Fusang led his squad into its assigned area and slipped past the main demonic forces with help from the local commander.
• Baili Fusang hid the squad near enemy positions, wary of their detection arrays, traps, and the Demon Child’s secret protectors.
• Baili Fusang recognized that the protectors were prepared to sacrifice their lives for the Demon Child, as was customary in the Poison Absolute lineage.

The demonic cultivators prepared to meet the righteous force, but their attack was disrupted by a powerful fire arts cultivator who burned the blood arts cultivator’s avatar. The strength arts cultivator charged ahead while his supposed partner grew wary, and the chapter ended by explaining why Wu Xingqiu had not gone to Demon Suppression Pass.

• The blood arts cultivator told the strength arts cultivator that the Myriad Corpses Sect’s secret should remain confidential, expecting his companion would die before reinforcements arrived.
• A righteous fire arts cultivator burned three returning scouts and planted a fire seed in the last scout; the two demonic leaders stopped the scout from carrying it back to their formation.
• The blood arts cultivator ordered the demonic forces to attack, and he and the strength arts cultivator charged into the righteous formation together.
• The fire arts cultivator burned the blood arts cultivator’s avatar, forcing him to recall it and avoid direct contact.
• The strength arts cultivator charged straight at the enemy, while the chapter revealed that Wu Xingqiu had missed the first deployment because he was not a heaven’s chosen and had not mastered the true fire art.

Qi Han killed a blood-arts demonic cultivator and absorbed his remains to cultivate blood poison, one of the eight poison arts he still needed to complete. He intended to seek purer blood qi in the Central Region, while the battlefield between the two paths offered him new targets among the righteous cultivators.

• Qi Han dissolved the blood-arts demonic cultivator with his poison arts, collected his treasures and storage bags, and swallowed the remains.
• Qi Han recalled how his Innate Hundred-Poison Physique had destroyed his birth parents and village, led a Core Formation demonic cultivator to report him to the Poison Absolute Immortal Sect, and brought him to Old Ancestor Poison Absolute as a favored disciple.
• Qi Han reflected that his cultivation had reached the peak of the Twelfth Layer of Spiritual Connection, with eight poison arts left to complete before he could attain True Intent.
• Qi Han judged the Demonic Land's blood qi too impure for his blood poison art and decided he would need to reach the Central Region to advance further.
• Qi Han saw the battlefield between the two paths as an opportunity to cultivate using the righteous cultivators' condensed blood qi and vigorous life force.

Qi Han traveled toward his next assignment while Baili Fusang and his squad waited in a marsh for a better chance to assassinate him. Elsewhere, the righteous path continued winning across its fronts, with Yang Lingrui, his wind-cultivator companion, and Long Yuan’s forces putting the Demonic Path under pressure.

• Qi Han stopped above a marsh after three days of flight, while Baili Fusang’s squad watched him from concealment and chose not to attack because he was on guard.
• Shen Yue reasoned that Qi Han would return along the marsh route to complete his assignments, and Baili Fusang’s squad resumed waiting while keeping track of Demonic Path troop movements.
• Yang Lingrui and his wind-cultivator companion devastated demon cultivators on the Southwest battlefield, earning a fearsome reputation among the Demonic Path.
• Chen Huaien and Tao Yuan held the westernmost front as Long Yuan’s young borderland elites used flanking maneuvers to defeat the Demonic Path’s counterattacks.

During the war between the righteous and demonic sides, Nie Wuchen confronted the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord in the Outrealm and warned him that the Divine Arrival True Person could restrain him as Zhuang Xuanji once had. Nie Wuchen departed after displaying a deeper grasp of spatial methods, leaving the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord questioning Bai Di’s prediction and the possibility of a chosen one of the Dao.

• Nie Wuchen watched Venerable Kuji fight the Poison-Extinguishing Demon Venerable as the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord arrived to speak with him.
• Nie Wuchen taunted the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord for failing to seize the chance to become the Demonic Path’s foremost venerable.
• The Myriad Corpses Demon Lord declared that the Returning Soul Dao would rule Canglan Continent by offering people a way to prolong their lives.
• Nie Wuchen warned that the Divine Arrival True Person could keep the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord under control as Zhuang Xuanji had for eight hundred years.
• Nie Wuchen departed by scattering the inverted river of stars, and the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord realized his opponent had grown stronger.
• The Myriad Corpses Demon Lord reconsidered Bai Di’s message and wondered whether a chosen one of the Dao truly existed.

Baili Fusang’s squad ambushed Qi Han after tracking his movements through the marsh and disabling his escape art. They destroyed two of his substitute lives, and Shen Yue prepared to use Invoke Saint as the attack continued.

• Baili Fusang decided the squad would strike when Qi Han next crossed the marsh alone.
• Qi Han felt an unexplained warning but dismissed it as he flew over the marsh without looking down.
• Baili Fusang and four allies sprang from the marsh, and three talents used Lifeline Talismans to seal Qi Han’s Body Dissolution Method.
• Shen Yue and Baili Fusang shattered Qi Han’s protective purple mist, and Baili Fusang destroyed his first body.
• Baili Fusang neutralized Qi Han’s poison, then used a Poetic-Word Flying Sword to destroy a second substitute life.
• Shen Yue invoked Saint while Baili Fusang continued fighting Qi Han.

Baili Fusang unleashed the Three Life-Severing Kills against Qi Han, but Qi Han broke free using Nether Poison Infusion and trapped them both in his poison art. Shen Yue led the others to retreat, following Baili Fusang’s plan, while the battle’s outcome remained unknown.

• Baili Fusang used the Heavenly Kill and Earthly Kill to bind Qi Han and attack him with the swamp’s rising dragons and serpents.
• Qi Han infused himself with Nether Poison, loosened the spatial confinement, and broke free from most of Baili Fusang’s attacks.
• Baili Fusang charged Qi Han, who knocked Shen Yue and the Earthly Kill cage aside and seized Baili Fusang’s sword tip.
• Qi Han cast Return of a Hundred Poisons, enveloping himself and Baili Fusang in a poisonous manifestation.
• Shen Yue gathered the three prodigies and began retreating, explaining that Baili Fusang had planned their escape and that demonic reinforcements would soon arrive.

A powerful disturbance from deep within the Vast Sea Demonic Land disrupted both sides’ forces and forced them to withdraw from battle. At the Central Region Demon Suppression Pass, Sea Bearing Venerable identified its likely source as the Demon Emperor’s Burial Mound, despite the righteous path’s past conclusion that the site was a Demonic Dao fabrication.

• A tremendous roar swept across the Central Region and Southwest battlefields, disrupting cultivators’ spiritual energy and forcing both sides to retreat.
• The righteous path strengthened defenses at the Central Region and Southwest Demon Suppression Passes while its leaders sought an explanation for the disturbance.
• Venerable Xuan You asked Sea Bearing Venerable whether he recognized the unprecedented commotion.
• Sea Bearing Venerable said the disturbance likely came from the Demon Emperor’s Burial Mound.
• Venerable Mingxiao recalled that Zhuang Xuanji and other righteous path venerables had inspected the mound and found it to be a sham created by the Demonic Dao to rally its forces.

At Demon Suppression Pass, Sea Bearing Venerable questioned why the Demonic Dao had launched such a massive war despite making little progress. He suspected the strange rumbling in the Demon Soil signaled a hidden move and warned that the Demonic Path Young Master might be the war’s true variable.

• The Profound Insight cultivators dismissed the Demon Emperor's Burial Mound as a human-made fake and doubted the Demonic Dao could threaten the Central Region.
• Sea Bearing Venerable felt uneasy about the rumbling from the Vast Sea Demonic Land while the strongest figures fought in the Otherworldly Realm.
• Venerable Resolve Karma invited Sea Bearing Venerable to explain his concerns.
• Sea Bearing Venerable showed records of past conflicts and argued that the Demonic Dao’s large-scale war had achieved little despite its claimed ambitions.
• The cultivators considered why the Demonic Dao had mobilized so many forces if it could not break through Demon Suppression Pass.
• Sea Bearing Venerable said the rumbling might signal a real move and suspected the Demonic Path Young Master was a key variable.

The Demonic Path launched an all-out assault far earlier than expected, deploying its five demon lairs, Mystic Insight Venerables, and nearly all its True Intent Cultivators. As Luo Qianchou prepared to face the attack on the Southwest battlefield, Nangong Jinghe suggested that the changes caused by the Demonic Path’s actions might be their true goal.

• The five demon lairs descended and merged with the Vast Sea Demonic Land as thirty-six Demonic Path Venerables and nearly four hundred True Intent Cultivators joined the war.
• The righteous venerables met the Demonic Path’s forces, while Resolve Karma ordered every combat-ready True Intent Cultivator in Demon Suppression Pass to the front lines.
• Five Mystic Insight Demonic Path Venerables and dozens of True Intent Cultivators attacked Southwestern Demon Suppression Pass, prompting Luo Qianchou to withdraw Path Seeking Realm forces into the Southwest hinterland.
• Luo Qianchou consulted Nangong Jinghe, who suggested that the changes caused by the enemy’s actions might reveal the Demonic Path’s true intent.

Bai Di helped the Azure Flame Demon Venerable begin his final tribulation, fulfilling the old demon’s wish to give his life for the Demonic Dao. As the Azure Flame Demonfire burned through the firmament, black smoke spread across the Demon Soil and both battlefields before stopping at a spatial barrier.

• The Azure Flame Demon Venerable told Bai Di he had always believed him to be the chosen Young Master of the Dao.
• Bai Di touched the Azure Flame Demon Venerable’s true body and confirmed it was time for him to summon the tribulation.
• The Azure Flame Demon Venerable began his tribulation, and heavenly lightning ignited his body in azure flames.
• Righteous Dao Venerables and Demonic Dao Demon Venerables recognized the Azure Flame Demon Venerable and wondered why he was ascending during the fighting.
• The Azure Flame Demonfire burned through the Apex of the Firmament, and black smoke spread across the Demon Soil, both battlefields, and Demon Suppression Pass before reaching the spatial barrier.

Gu Wuwei, the elderly master of the tiny Heaven-Measure Sect, reflected on how a visit from a Donglai Sect cultivator had connected his obscure lineage to the Yang Clan’s rule of the Northwest. The visit left him with a Cheng Yang Stone Tablet and a sense that even his name might be preserved in history.

• Chang Yishan and his junior brother sought Gu Wuwei’s permission to gather medicinal herbs, then paid respects to the Cheng Yang Stone Tablet before leaving.
• Gu Wuwei recalled how a Late Qi Gathering cultivator from the Donglai Sect had visited the Heaven-Measure Sect more than ten years earlier.
• The Donglai Sect cultivator told Gu Wuwei that the Yang Clan had stabilized the Northwest and recorded the names and lineage of the sect’s three members.
• The cultivator gave Gu Wuwei the Cheng Yang Stone Tablet and a talisman box, instructing him to pay respects to them diligently.
• Gu Wuwei remembered feeling warmed when his name and the Heaven-Measure Sect’s lineage were entered in the register.

Gu Wuwei learned that his disciples had found corpses falling from the sky and three severed heads feeding on the dead pig demon, whom he had fought for years. He cautiously investigated the mountain and found the pig demon drained of blood, but the heads were gone.

• Chang Yishan told Gu Wuwei that he and his junior brother had found scattered body parts and corpses in the mountains.
• Chang Yishan reported that the pig demon was dead and three severed heads had been feeding on its flesh and blood.
• Gu Wuwei suspected the heads were demonic cultivators left behind after the Demon Extermination Squad’s campaign and set out with his disciples to investigate.
• Gu Wuwei found the pig demon’s corpse drained of blood, saw bite marks across its body, and released his divine sense to examine it.

Gu Wuwei sent his disciples toward Donglai Sect while turning back to confront the demonic cultivator slaughtering a village. He arrived as the cultivator killed a villager and cornered a boy fleeing with his infant sister.

• Gu Wuwei spotted the demonic cultivator attacking another village and initially led his disciples away to report the threat to the great sects.
• After villagers cried out for the old immortal, Gu Wuwei sent Chang Yishan and his other disciple southwest with the cave’s stone stele and his possessions.
• Gu Wuwei reassured his disciples that he would survive, then ordered them to leave without him.
• Hearing a father urge his children to run, Gu Wuwei rushed into the village, where the demonic cultivator had killed most of the villagers.
• A boy fled with his infant sister as the cultivator killed their father and appeared before them.

Chang Yishan and his junior fellow disciple fled the Wild Forest to warn the Northwest’s righteous powers about the Demonic Calamity. Outside the forest, a cultivator from the Yang family recognized them and approached, leaving Chang Yishan overwhelmed with emotion.

• Chang Yishan and his junior fellow disciple realized that walking to Donglai Sect would take too long to stop the demonic cultivators from establishing a foothold in the Northwest.
• The two Heaven-Measure Sect disciples hurried out of the Wild Forest, determined to report the Demonic Calamity as quickly as possible.
• At dusk, Chang Yishan and his junior fellow disciple reached a stream, exhausted, while a concealed Late Qi Gathering cultivator identified them from a booklet.
• The cultivator pinned the pair with an earth spell when Chang Yishan mistook him for a pursuing demon and tried to jump into the stream.
• The cultivator showed his Yang family insignia and his Eliminate Demons and Defend the Dao emblems, and Chang Yishan let out a long breath before emotion overcame him.

Chang Yishan told the Demon Extermination Squad that demonic cultivators had fallen into the Wild Forest from a hole in the sky. When black-alert messages confirmed a threat to the entire Northwest, one cultivator raced to the garrison with Chang Yishan and his junior brother while another entered the forest to aid Fellow Daoist Zhang and intercept the demons.

• Chang Yishan described how corpses and demonic cultivators had fallen from the sky and how the demons slaughtered people in the Wild Forest.
• Two Demon Extermination Squad cultivators arrived, and one went into the forest to investigate while the other remained with Chang Yishan and his junior brother.
• The two cultivators received black-alert messages indicating a danger that threatened the entire Northwest.
• One cultivator sent his faster colleague to the southern garrison with Chang Yishan and his junior brother, then set out to help Fellow Daoist Zhang and attack the demonic cultivators.
• Two mutilated demonic cultivators, both formerly in the Core Formation Realm, attacked the first Demon Extermination Squad cultivator who entered the forest.

The Demon Extermination Squads mobilized in response to trouble in the Wild Forest while Wu Chang and Bai Di advanced the demonic path’s invasion of the Northwest. They expected to seize the region within three months unless Chen Yang intervened.

• Two Demon Extermination Squad captains learned of the disturbance in the Wild Forest, and one headed for the mountains while the other escorted Chang Yishan and gathered reinforcements.
• Black-light dispatches spread across the northern region, prompting Demon Extermination Squad garrisons to organize their forces and rush toward the disturbance.
• Wu Chang stabilized the spatial passage enough to transport Qi Gathering Cultivators reliably and give Core Formation Cultivators a chance to cross safely.
• Bai Di sent a second demonic sect vanguard through the passage to begin reconnaissance and form an initial fighting force in the Northwest.
• Bai Di and Wu Chang judged that the Yang Clan’s Hidden Peak ally was unlikely to act and predicted the demonic path would take the Northwest within three months.

Demonic cultivators emerging from a spatial channel were ambushed by the Northwest Demon Extermination Squad, but the battle ended in the squad’s destruction. The surviving demons reflected on the cultivators’ unusual resolve before the channel stirred again, signaling that more arrivals were coming.

• The demonic vanguard discovered twenty Core Formation righteous cultivators and over a hundred Qi Gathering cultivators waiting to ambush them.
• Four powerful demonic cultivators survived the opening assault and fought the extermination squad, killing all twenty cultivators while one demon died and the other three were injured.
• The Essence Condensation Perfection demonic cultivator wondered why the Northwest cultivators had fought to the death rather than flee.
• Two surviving demons returned with blood essence from the Qi Gathering cultivators, and the Perfection-stage cultivator told them to divide it and recover quickly.
• After the demons tended to their injuries, the spatial channel stirred again.