Recaps

Yang Lingrui attained True Intent during battle, turning the fight against the Demon Sect and confirming Yang Lingqing’s fears that a far greater assault was coming. Yang Lingqing led the Northwestern cultivators east, leaving room for the coming clash between True Intent Cultivators.

• A tiny blood crystal fell into the hardened ground, and the soil soon returned to normal without the battling cultivators noticing.
• Yang Lingrui and eight Northwestern True Intent Cultivators fought the Demon Sect’s last True Intent Cultivator while Yang Lingrui assessed Bai Di’s plan to trap him until reinforcements arrived.
• Yang Lingrui’s attainment of True Intent had killed two Demon Children and one Demon Sect True Intent Cultivator, leaving the last opponent in mortal danger.
• Yang Lingrui told Yang Lingqing that powerful reinforcements from the Demon Soil might reach the Northwest the following day.
• Yang Lingqing recognized that the Demonic Path Young Master’s blood descendants and the lack of further support signaled an impending all-out assault.
• Yang Lingqing had already ordered the Northwestern forces to retreat east toward the Barbarian Lands so they could escape the coming battle between True Intent Cultivators.

Yang Lingrui and the other cultivators rescued Dong Ruoyin and eliminated the last demonic cultivator in the first wave, then hurried east as the Demon Soil prepared a larger invasion. Meanwhile, Bai Di tested the spatial passage, and the Blackwater Demon Lord prepared to enter the Northwest with a crushing debt to the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord.

• Yang Lingrui and eight allies separated the Soul Dao demonic cultivator’s soul from Dong Ruoyin’s, using the Bright Mirror’s power to expose the boundary between them.
• Huo Yuan severed the souls with the Dragon-Slaying Method, and the other six True Intent Cultivators killed the Soul Dao demonic cultivator.
• Yang Lingrui, Huo Yuan, and the others took the Demon Child and moved east, leaving only Two Cats alive among the Demonic Dao’s first-wave raiders.
• Bai Di sent five True Intent Cultivators through the spatial passage to scout, but only one survived and reached the Northwest.
• Bai Di identified the passage’s dangers with the Spirit Eye Method, and Wu Chang reinforced its weak points.
• The Blackwater Demon Lord was identified as the Profound Insight Demon Lord bound for the Northwest, still indebted to the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord for saving his life.

Bai Di questioned Wu Chang about the Demonic Path’s failed surprise attack on the Northwest and the many events that had defied their expectations. Wu Chang realized Bai Di suspected him, leaving their alliance strained as the expedition through the spatial passage continued.

• Wu Chang reassured Bai Di that Blackwater Demon Lord and the others would cross the spatial passage safely.
• Bai Di clarified that he was worried about whether they could conquer the Northwest, but Wu Chang insisted their forces would succeed.
• Bai Di pointed out that the Northwest campaign had stalled and that several forces, including his descendants, had been nearly wiped out.
• Bai Di asked Wu Chang to explain the Northwest cultivators’ rapid response, the assembly of eight native True Intent Cultivators, and Yang Lingrui’s swift return from the Southwest.
• Wu Chang realized Bai Di suspected him and recalled that, despite witnessing the Northwest battlefield, he had not taken part in its unexpected developments.

Bai Di suspected Wu Chang was secretly betting on both sides of the Northwest battle and resolved to alter its course using the power he had accumulated. As the Blackwater Demon Lord arrived, his demon clouds caught up with Yang Lingrui and the others as they headed toward the Eastern Region.

• Bai Di dismissed Wu Chang’s explanation about the Northwest Yang Clan and grew suspicious of his motives.
• Bai Di silently concluded Wu Chang had placed wagers on both sides and began drawing on his accumulated power to change the battle.
• Wu Chang withdrew his spirit body without realizing Bai Di’s suspicions had changed his plans.
• The Blackwater Demon Lord’s arrival caused a spatial tremor that Yang Lingrui and the Northwest cultivators sensed.
• Purple-black demon clouds caught up with Yang Lingrui and the others, and the Blackwater Demon Lord threatened them for killing Demon Soil elites.

Venerable Shuying confronted the Blackwater Demon Lord as he attacked the Northwest, and she used a Fuyao Sect treasure to push back his demonic power. Though Blackwater had fallen from the eighth level to the fourth, he believed the jade Bai Di had given him would ensure the conquest.

• The Blackwater Demon Lord recognized Venerable Shuying as Chu Qingying and taunted her about facing him without Daoist Mingxiao.
• Venerable Shuying drove back Blackwater’s Zhen Xuan power with a crimson Divine Wind and showed that she could wield the Fuyao Sect’s treasure of Dao enlightenment.
• Venerable Shuying challenged Blackwater, saying his current fourth-level cultivation would not make her retreat.
• Blackwater realized the Righteous Path had likely stationed Venerable Shuying in the Northwest as a precaution against a demonic incursion.
• Blackwater gripped the jade Bai Di had given him and trusted that it would secure the conquest of the Northwest.

True Intent cultivators from the Righteous and Demonic Paths clashed as the Demonic Path advanced into the northwest, while the Cambrian gods waited to hear whether Chen Yang would send them into the war. The chapter left Chen Yang yet to issue a decree about their role in the Cambrian Immortal Contest.

• True Intent demonic cultivators left the Northern Wilderness Forest and met Righteous Dao cultivators at the northwest frontline.
• Yang Lingrui joined the battle while the other eight northwest True Intent Cultivators led their main force east toward the barbarians.
• Righteous Dao reinforcements arrived from the east and gradually turned the battle against the demonic cultivators.
• After a True Intent demonic cultivator's Life Tablet shattered, Wu Chang panicked, and Chen Yang let him leave the divine palace.
• Chen Yang told Blood Sun Venerable God that Bai Di and Wu Chang's cooperation would likely end, while the Cambrian gods awaited his orders.

After the Demonic Dao’s Northwest offensive stalled, Wu Chang tried to recover control by sending Bai Di to gather reinforcements and adjusting the spatial passage. As Wu Chang focused on the passage, a mysterious gaze watched him from atop the Azure Flame with growing greed.

• Wu Chang let Bai Di leave because he saw no way to resolve the Northwest stalemate himself or send Bai Di through the one-way spatial passage.
• Wu Chang reflected on how the Demonic Dao’s attack had failed despite his careful plans, and how Venerable Shuying had intercepted the Blackwater Demon Lord.
• Bai Di showed confidence and decisiveness, while Wu Chang returned to the Demon Emperor's Burial Mound and tried to steady himself.
• Wu Chang decided Bai Di could gather Demonic Dao cultivators at the front and help salvage the Northwest campaign.
• Wu Chang stabilized the spatial passage’s karmic forces and tried to shift its exit closer to the righteous cultivators in the Northwest.
• A gaze from atop the Azure Flame watched Wu Chang and showed growing greed.

Old Devil Lang Xiao concealed a rift in the Void Realm starry river when two Void Stepping cultivators arrived to question him about a trace of Canglan Immortal Intent. He misdirected them with a fragment crystal, and they left without discovering what he was hiding.

• Old Devil Lang Xiao concealed the rift in his starry river as two Void Stepping cultivators appeared and asked what trickery he had hidden there.
• The cultivator skilled in divination revealed that he had sensed Canglan Immortal Intent around Lang Xiao while seeking a chance to descend to the lower realm.
• Lang Xiao claimed he had found a fragment crystal of Canglan Immortal Intent and showed its phantom image to the visitors.
• The three cultivators discussed whether the fragment crystal explained the divination, but the visitors could not confirm a connection and departed.

Lang Xiao and the other Treading Void cultivators feared Zhuang Xuanji because her mastery of spatial Daoist Magic made her a threat despite her lower cultivation realm. Her talent, the backing of Lingxiao Dao Academy, and her promising path left her in a position that powerful figures would not dare challenge.

• Lang Xiao grew wary when Zhuang Xuanji's name was mentioned, recalling how quickly she had become feared by veteran Treading Void cultivators.
• The chapter explained that cultivation realm affected the quantity of spatial Daoist Magic, while insight into it could transform a cultivator's combat strength.
• Zhuang Xuanji's profound understanding of spatial Daoist Magic surpassed that of Lang Xiao and the other cultivators, giving her a decisive advantage despite her lower realm.
• Zhuang Xuanji was expected to advance smoothly toward the Perfected Realm of Treading Void because her understanding had already overcome the usual obstacles.
• Lingxiao Dao Academy's powerful Old Ancestor and Zhuang Xuanji's potential made her status in the Void Realm secure from attack by powerful cultivators.

The Old Devil Lang Xiao let two Treading Void cultivators inspect Wu Chang, and the three agreed to seal the fissure and conceal its spatial divine ability. Meanwhile, Bai Di arrived at a frontier battlefield, killed a righteous True Intent cultivator, and ordered the demonic forces to return to the Demon Emperor's Burial Mound.

• The Old Devil Lang Xiao yielded to the two Treading Void cultivators and let them enter the Nebula Void Domain to inspect the fissure.
• The two cultivators recognized Wu Chang as an intelligent object of Creation whose aura indicated the spatial divine ability they sought.
• The Old Devil Lang Xiao and the two cultivators agreed to seal the Immortal Intent fluctuations so others would not discover the fissure.
• Bai Di reached a frontier battlefield through the Demon Soil's teleportation array and killed an early-stage True Intent righteous cultivator with spatial crushing.
• Bai Di asked a True Intent demonic cultivator about the battlefront and ordered him to lead his men back to the Demon Emperor's Burial Mound, following a magic treasure's guidance.

Nangong Moyu and Yi Xuanbai tried to delay Bai Di’s northward advance with layered spatial barriers and two formations. Bai Di broke through their defenses and began absorbing Yi Xuanbai’s soul-targeting killing force, leaving the Formation Cultivator shocked.

• Bai Di’s Spirit-Eye Spell Light shattered Nangong Moyu and Yi Xuanbai’s layered spatial barriers before the Light-Bending Spirit-Concealing Formation stopped it.
• Nangong Moyu and Yi Xuanbai acknowledged Bai Di’s strength and prepared to delay his advance despite expecting they could not defeat him together.
• Bai Di transformed his spell light into a giant axe and cleaved through Yi Xuanbai’s formation.
• Nangong Moyu attacked with Golden Light Subduing Demons as Yi Xuanbai activated his Soul-Devouring Heart-Piercing formation.
• Bai Di stood unharmed within the killing formation and began absorbing and refining its soul-targeting force, shocking Yi Xuanbai.

Nangong Moyu tried to rescue Yi Xuanbai, but Bai Di trapped him with five colored lotus leaves. Nangong Moyu broke free using two powerful family treasures and attacked Bai Di with secret arts.

• Nangong Moyu shattered Bai Di's weapon phantoms and prepared to traverse into the spatial crevice where Yi Xuanbai was in danger.
• Bai Di summoned an emerald lotus leaf against Nangong Moyu, then surrounded him with four more leaves that suppressed his spiritual essence and slowed his mind.
• Nangong Moyu activated a golden cup and golden armor from the Nangong Clan, overcoming the lotus leaves' suppression.
• Nangong Moyu appeared close to Bai Di and used Flowing Light Golden Baleful Shadow and Brilliant Jade Dark-Gold Flame to cut off their space and attack him.
• Nangong Moyu drank all the clear water from the golden cup.

Yi Xuanbai and Nangong Moyu prepared to face Bai Di again after their attacks left him in an abyss, but a strange aura began rising from its depths. They refused to flee because Bai Di could break through to the righteous path’s main battlefield, and a five-colored lotus seat emerged as they braced for what came next.

• Yi Xuanbai used his natal Body Formation to break free from Bai Di’s giant hand and joined Nangong Moyu.
• Yi Xuanbai and Nangong Moyu attacked the abyss, but Bai Di’s aura vanished without convincing them that he was dead.
• A strange aura rose from the abyss as a voice recited, “Five-colored fate, steady the mortal heart. Tread the immortal path, pursue Dao Sheng.”
• Yi Xuanbai and Nangong Moyu chose to stand their ground rather than let Bai Di advance toward the righteous path’s main battlefield.
• A lotus seat surrounded by five-colored divine radiance floated up from the abyss.

Bai Di discovered that the water in Nangong Moyu’s golden cup carried divine power and suspected Nangong Jinghe of breaking the rules by bringing power into the Lower Realm. The chapter revealed that Chen Yang’s invented sensing method had helped Nangong Jinghe refine divine power, and it ended with Bai Di wishing he could confront him and the Dao Academy ancestor.

• Bai Di subdued Nangong Moyu and took his golden armor and cup, then sensed divine power left behind by the water inside.
• Bai Di accused Nangong Jinghe of sending a soul fragment into the Lower Realm and bringing in power from outside Azure Waves.
• Chen Yang’s divine power had originally been left in a spirit ore, and Nangong Jinghe had learned to refine it using Chen Yang’s invented method.
• Nangong Jinghe overcame the method’s contradictions through his exceptional cultivation talent, impressing Chen Yang.
• Nangong Jinghe shared refined divine power with his clan, and Bai Di lamented that he could not test Nangong Jinghe and the Dao Academy ancestor himself.

Bai Di faced the Immortal Estate cultivators and effortlessly absorbed their Metal Dao attack, admiring the Five Elements Dharma Disc. As the cultivators prepared to use all five elements against him, Bai Di welcomed the chance to witness more of Azure Waves’ Dao arts.

• Bai Di examined the Immortal Estate’s Five Elements Dharma Disc and reflected on the scarcity of complete Five Elements inheritances in the Vast Sea Demonic Land.
• Three Metal Dao cultivators attacked Bai Di with the Dharma Disc’s Thousand Blades Break Demons technique.
• Bai Di caught the golden spears with a crimson lotus leaf, shattered the attack, and absorbed its spiritual breath into the lotus.
• The leading Immortal Estate cultivator steadied the others and ordered them to use Five Elements rotation to delay Bai Di.
• Bai Di praised the cultivators as the Dharma Disc gathered the Five Elements spirits, and he eagerly awaited their full power.

Bai Di reflected on how his second Dharma body had transformed his strength and why he had let fifteen Immortal Estate cultivators build their Five Elements spell to its limit. The cultivators unleashed their finished attack just as Bai Di began to reclaim his separated clones.

• Bai Di recalled that Wu Chang had aided him in cultivating his second Dharma body, unlike Zhuang Xuanji, who had achieved her transformation alone.
• Bai Di recognized that his second Dharma body had greatly increased his combat strength after he defeated Nangong Moyu and Yi Xuanbai with a glance.
• Bai Di explained that he had allowed the fifteen Immortal Estate cultivators to build their Five Elements spell so he could test his new body's limits.
• The fifteen Immortal Estate cultivators invoked their Dharma and hurled the Five Elements chaotic power at every space occupied by Bai Di as he began reclaiming his clones.

Bai Di destroyed the Five Elements Dharma Disc and killed fourteen Immortal Estate cultivators after one of them wounded his second Dharma Body. He absorbed their Primordial Spirits, then discovered the last cultivator had escaped and turned toward a black-robed figure in the northern clouds.

• Bai Di examined the cut on his left palm and realized the Immortal Estate cultivators had wounded his Dharma Body.
• The fifteen cultivators tried to reinforce the Five Elements Dharma Disc, but Bai Di appeared before they could finish.
• Bai Di shattered the Dharma Disc and the cultivators’ bodies with one punch, then absorbed the Five Elements spiritual breaths and the surviving Primordial Spirits.
• Bai Di noticed one Primordial Spirit was missing and sensed that its owner had survived.
• Bai Di turned toward the northern clouds and saw a black-robed figure carrying a wooden sword and a vermilion wine gourd.

The chapter recounted how the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord first met Zhuang Xuanji and invited her to discuss the Dao, only to be comprehensively outmatched by her. Her verdict that the Soul-Returning Corpse Dao could reach Treading Void but could never reach the heavens left him with a path forward and helped cement her resolve to suppress the Demon Soil.

• Long Zhu and Chi Tian knew little about Zhuang Xuanji's two former disciples, while Luo Qianchou and Ye Chenfeng knew the truth behind their deaths.
• The chapter revealed that the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord had regarded Zhuang Xuanji with worship and awe since their first meeting.
• The Myriad Corpses Demon Lord had invited Zhuang Xuanji to discuss the Dao, and she had outmatched him in understanding cultivation realms and Dao techniques.
• Zhuang Xuanji had demonstrated breaking through to Profound Cavern, Second Tier, before falling back to Profound Cavern, First Tier, silencing the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord.
• Zhuang Xuanji had condemned the Soul-Returning Corpse Dao as a dead end that could reach Treading Void but never the heavens, showing the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord that his current bottleneck could be overcome.

Bai Di showed Ye Chenfeng two Dharma corpses restored by the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord and argued that they had returned because they still wished to live. Ye Chenfeng rejected the idea that they were truly alive, leaving their disagreement unresolved.

• The Myriad Corpses Demon Lord recovered nearly seventy percent of two disciples' bodies and souls from the Sea of Corpse Souls, and Bai Di repaired the missing parts of their souls.
• The Myriad Corpses Demon Lord completed the two Soul-Returning Method corpses and entrusted them to Bai Di to continue his old debate with Zhuang Xuanji's disciple.
• Bai Di summoned the two Dharma corpses before Ye Chenfeng and said they had risen from death through the Soul-Returning Corpse Dao.
• Ye Chenfeng refused to regard the corpses as his returned Junior Brother and Junior Sister, calling the claim a profanation of their convictions.
• Bai Di insisted that the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord had not forced them to return and said the Soul-Returning Method worked because they themselves still wished to live.

Bai Di faced eight righteous cultivators who had reached True Intent Perfection and mastered profound intent, after they overcame the demonic cultivators on their fronts. The chapter recounted how Bai Di earned the Demonic Dao’s leaders’ trust by tying his own rise to the fate of the Demonic Dao, setting the stage for the ongoing counteroffensive.

• Bai Di used his Spirit Eye to assess the eight righteous cultivators and recognized that their cultivation and profound intent matched his own.
• Bai Di reflected that the Demonic Dao had relied on Wu Chang’s divine power and forbidden methods to strengthen its cultivators, sacrificing their foundations in a desperate attempt to reverse its decline.
• Bai Di recalled how he organized the region under his care and demonstrated his talent for cultivation, prompting the Demonic Dao’s leaders to reconsider him.
• The Azure Flame Demon Venerable visited Bai Di, and they devised a surprise attack on the Northwest using Spatial Folding.
• The Ghostly Soul Demon Venerable acknowledged Bai Di after Bai Di gave him one of his sons as a substitute for his cultivation.
• The Poison-Extinguishing Demon Venerable, the Earthly Baleful Demon Venerable, and the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord came to recognize Bai Di, who had bound his Dao Path to the fate of the Demonic Dao.

Bai Di confronted eight of the righteous path’s strongest True Intent Cultivators at the Demon Soil front, while the pursuit battle in the southwestern heartland ended with several Demon Children defeated. Long Yuan chose to capture his opponent alive and take him to Penglai Palace’s dragon-descendant ancestral land.

• Bai Di identified the eight righteous experts surrounding him and concluded that the strongest threat among them was Ye Chenfeng.
• Bai Di plucked the lotus from the lotus dais, taunted the eight cultivators, and drew Sword Immortal Shi’s attack.
• The eight righteous cultivators joined forces to seal Bai Di inside a warped space cut off from the main Canglan Continent.
• Ning Jiu killed her Demon Child target but lost a hundred and eighty years of lifespan, her sword, three fingers, and an eye; Wo Qingchen traded his life to kill his target.
• Yun Xiwu used the Void Nether Divine Wind, aided by Yang Lingrui’s Immortal Venerable incarnation, to destroy the female Demon Child.
• Long Yuan learned that his opponent Long Shou had hunted dragon-descended cultivators, recognized his unusual bloodline, and decided to capture him alive for Penglai Palace.

Mont received Yang Lingqing’s orders to inspect the northwestern edge of the Barbarian Land and prepared an elite squad to depart. Before setting out, he ensured they checked their supplies, including the newly produced Spirit-Breath Battle Armor.

• Mont praised Yang Lingqing’s detailed battle line plan as a messenger delivered her message through the Cheng Yang Stone Tablet.
• Yang Lingqing ordered Mont to lead an elite squad to inspect the northwestern edge of the Barbarian Land and marked the other teams’ patrol routes.
• Mont assembled an Incarnation Realm squad and ordered its members to check their combat supplies before departure.
• Mont highlighted the newly delivered Spirit-Breath Battle Armor, which reduced spiritual essence consumption and amplified Dao arts after being refined into the body.
• Dongfang Yingcai, Ma Yongsheng, the Dongfang Clan, Artifact Path cultivators, and the Yang Clan had worked together to establish a complete armor production line in the Yang Family Sacred Land.

Mont and Lin Qiao traced spatial fluctuations to a dangerous thunderstorm region on the border between the Barbarian Lands and the Northwest. After investigating its edge, they reasoned that the Demonic Path was unlikely to be sending reinforcements, but Mont's final thought suggested another possibility.

• Mont led his team to the patrol site, where the Cheng Yang Stone Tablet detected spatial fluctuations, and continued toward the Northwest.
• Mont's team met Lin Qiao's team, and both groups found that the fluctuations led into the thunderstorm region.
• Lin Qiao and Mont entered the storm in their spiritual breath battle armor while the other cultivators searched its perimeter.
• Near the storm's center, Lin Qiao and Mont confirmed the fluctuations' source but stopped short of entering the most dangerous area.
• Lin Qiao and Mont concluded that the Demonic Path's forces were already committed to the front and were unlikely to send more True Intent Cultivators.
• Mont noted that Lower Three Realms cultivators would be even less suited to landing in the storm, then began to voice an exception.

Yang Lingqing’s forces prepared to counter the Demonic Path’s five spatial routes, while Wu Chang struggled with the mounting cost of the plan and the war’s unexpected setbacks. The chapter left Bai Di realizing that the Demonic Dao faced defeat unless she acted.

• Yang Lingqing sent four Central Region cultivators, eight Northwest cultivators, and three Barbarian bishops toward the borderlands.
• The chapter explained how the Barbarian bishops could draw divine power beyond their lands and why the Demonic Path’s nearby spatial routes made that easier.
• The fifteen True Intent experts assigned five defenders to the spatial routes and positioned the remaining ten along the Barbarian Land’s border.
• Wu Chang, unaware of the Northwest’s response, struggled with the energy and divine power spent dividing and relocating the spatial routes.
• Bai Di recognized that the war was turning toward defeat unless she took action.

The righteous cultivators ambushed the demonic forces as they emerged from the five spatial pathways into the Northwest, inflicting heavy losses. Yang Lingqing and Dongfang Yingcai arrived at the western-border frontline camp after learning of the pathways’ anomaly.

• The five righteous cultivators detected the spatial pathways opening and moved to intercept the demonic cultivators.
• The pathways’ unstable fluctuations shook the region, and the demonic vanguards reinforced their defenses before emerging.
• The righteous cultivators defeated the first demonic teams with numerical superiority and engaged the other arrivals.
• The demonic forces suffered losses during transit and in the ambush, leaving about half combat-ready and seventeen of the twenty-one Demon Children alive.
• Yang Lingqing and Dongfang Yingcai arrived at the frontline camp on the western border of the Barbarian Land.