Recaps

Chen Huai'an used the Demonic Dao’s lack of information about his improved strength to ambush and devour its vanguard. The main force, led by two Demon Children, stopped before his approaching rain and mist after realizing the vanguard had vanished.

• Yang Lingqing reorganized the righteous-path defenses and ordered Chen Huai'an to operate alone in the isolated region.
• Chen Huai'an, now at Essence Condensation Perfection, approached a Demonic Dao vanguard led by two Early-Spiritual Connection Realm cultivators without being detected.
• Chen Huai'an surrounded the vanguard with rain and fog, then killed and swallowed the demonic cultivators.
• Chen Huai'an expanded his rainmaking technique and sent the rain and mist toward the main Demonic Dao force led by two Demon Children.
• The Demon Children halted their troops, and a blood arts cultivator reported that his blood worm had vanished and he could detect nothing within the fog.
• One Demon Child suspected the vanguard was dead and compared the mist to the dangerous thunderstorm region they had crossed earlier.

As demonic cultivators advanced into the Northwest, Yang Lingqing let frontline generals direct the fighting while she managed the broader strategy. At the Southern Frontline, Xiao Yize and the Sun Clan’s reinforcements used Dongfang Clan Spirit-Breath Battle Armor to face a Demon Child, while Yang Lingqing confirmed that all seventeen Demon Children had appeared.

• Yang Lingqing gave frontline generals autonomy over battlefield tactics while retaining control of the broader strategic deployment.
• The Sun Clan sent Sun Hongyu, Sun Hongwen, and Sun Qingwei, along with its remaining combat strength, to aid the Yang Clan in the Northwest.
• Xiao Yize led the Southern Frontline alongside the Sun Clan cultivators as the armies clashed in the land of three mountains.
• Xiao Yize and his companions, equipped with Spirit-Breath Battle Armor, fought a Demon Child while the Black Wood Swimming Dragon tore through low-realm demonic cultivators.
• Yang Lingqing reviewed the battle reports and confirmed that all seventeen Demon Children had appeared.

Yang Lingqing managed the Northwest campaign as casualties mounted across the battle lines, sending reinforcements to the hardest-pressed fronts. The central main battle line faced the fiercest assault, where the righteous forces struggled to contain the demonic sect young lord's son and his Five-Colored Extreme Demon Method.

• Yang Lingqing reviewed the casualty report, remembered Yang Yuancheng and the other fallen cultivators, and dispatched reserves to reinforce the front lines.
• Murong Zhenlin and Consort Xi went to aid the southern third battle line, while Senior Fire Dragon and Yuchi Lian received orders to support other fronts.
• Daily casualties continued to rise as the demonic cultivators' main forces fought the Northwest defenders across the border.
• Dongfang Yingcai, Lorraine, Yang Lingshu, Yuchi Lian, Xuan Zhou, Hong Yao, Feng Lan, and other high-level cultivators joined forces against the demonic sect young lord's son on the central main battle line.
• Yang Lingqing concentrated over eighty percent of the Yang Clan's cultivators on the central battlefield, where veterans and young fighters from the Northwest factions fought alongside them.

Yang Yuanwen used a talisman beast art to fight five Core Condensation demon cultivators who had joined the campaign against Yang Yuancheng. At the same time, Fang Xiao tried to send frontline battle reports from a camp under attack before a powerful art struck her tent.

• Five Core Condensation demon cultivators encircled Yang Yuanwen and prepared to trap him in a prison of demonic clouds.
• Yang Yuanwen transformed with his talisman beast art while retaining his reason, then trapped the five demon cultivators alongside himself.
• The battle inside the demonic clouds faded as the demon cultivators' cries and the sounds of their bodies being torn apart emerged.
• A bloodied barbarian cultivator warned Fang Xiao that demon cultivators had breached the main camp's western gate.
• Fang Xiao continued transmitting vital battle reports through the Cheng Yang Stone Tablet, but a powerful art blasted apart her tent and the ground beneath it.

Han Wang intercepted a demonic cultivator after he killed Fang Xiao, then revealed that his unsteady flight had been a feint and attacked with a powerful close-range technique. The demonic cultivator’s demon cloud shattered, leaving Han Wang’s kick about to strike him.

• The demonic cultivator killed Fang Xiao and suspected she was an outsider cultivator of the Yang Clan.
• The demonic cultivator dismissed the approaching Han Wang because Han Wang had only just reached the First Layer of Essence Condensation.
• Han Wang evaded more than ten spells with his unusual movement and afterimage techniques, closing to within thirty zhang.
• Han Wang launched Yinfeng Flowing Cloud Charge and struck the demonic cultivator’s protective demon cloud with Thousand-Beak Peck, Hundred Harming Retreat.
• Han Wang’s chilling kick pierced the shattered demon cloud, and the demonic cultivator halted his spell to brace against the attack.

Han Wang retook the northwest camp while Zhao Qi coordinated the battlefront and realized the demonic cultivators’ eastern assault was a feint for an attack on the First Main Camp. He warned Feng Lan and sent reinforcements, but the defenders’ ability to hold until they arrived remained uncertain.

• Han Wang repelled the demonic cultivators and recaptured the northwest camp with reinforcements.
• Zhao Qi ordered nearby camps to prepare to gather and break through south if necessary.
• After noticing the First Main Camp had not reported in for three hours, Zhao Qi deduced that the eastern attack was a feint and sent the First and Third Reserve Battalions to reinforce Feng Lan.
• Feng Lan told Zhao Qi that his warning had helped him discover demonic squads ambushed near the defensive zone and urged him to hurry the reinforcements.
• Zhao Qi issued Divine Movement Talismans to speed the reinforcements, while remaining at the main camp to command the battlefront.

Feng Linghua fought three demonic cultivators with her painting arts, but the poison cultivator called in his companions, who launched a coordinated attack against her. The chapter ended as the poison cultivator fired two cold-poison needles at Feng Linghua amid their assault.

• Feng Linghua attacked the three demonic cultivators with a painted scene of wind and thunder to keep them away from Xie Chuan.
• The poison cultivator transformed into purple mist and used his cold poison against Feng Linghua's painted attack.
• Feng Linghua stained her brush with essence blood and summoned painting spirits that fought off the poison cultivator's specters.
• The poison cultivator failed to break through Feng Linghua's defenses and called on the blood-arts and shadow-assassination cultivators to help.
• The two cultivators attacked Feng Linghua with Bloodlight Heavenly Funeral and Shadow-Slaying of the Three Souls as the poison cultivator fired two cold-poison needles at her.

Feng Linghua used the Invoke Saint art to kill three demonic cultivators, but a Spiritual Connection Demonic Cultivator arrived and defeated her. As he moved to capture her alive, she believed she was about to die and thought of Yang Lingrui.

• Feng Linghua summoned the Fate Official phantom with her painting and used three decrees of judgment to defeat the three demonic cultivators.
• Feng Linghua burned one unconscious cultivator with a flaming arrow and struck the other with a mountain-splitting battle-axe to finish them off.
• A Spiritual Connection Demonic Cultivator ambushed Feng Linghua, pierced her shoulder with spell-light, and sent her crashing into a boulder.
• The demonic cultivator planned to capture Feng Linghua alive for battle merit and revealed that he had been ordered to help encircle Feng Lan.
• As her consciousness faded, Feng Linghua thought of Yang Lingrui and accepted that she might die.

Yin Er returned to help Feng Lan repel the demonic cultivators’ assault, while the chapter revealed how Yang Lingrui had hidden him from Bai Di. Reports from the Central Region showed the Demonic Path had captured six positions, and strategists warned that the reserves might not stop its advance toward the main camp.

• Yin Er returned to the frontline after escorting two wounded fighters to a rear camp and helped Feng Lan break through the encirclement.
• The chapter revealed that Yang Lingrui had spared Yin Er, then used a Sever Karma judgment and the Cheng Yang Stone Tablet to conceal him from Bai Di’s Five-Colored Brand.
• Reinforcements arrived, and the exhausted frontline cultivators withdrew to rest and treat their wounds.
• Zhao Qi sent Yang Lingqing reports showing that demonic forces had attacked nearly every Central Region front and captured six of twenty-two positions.
• Righteous-path reserves stopped the demonic forces from advancing easily into Barbarian Land, but main-camp strategists judged they would likely fail and advised a withdrawal.

Yang Lingqing realized the Demonic Path’s offensive was meant to cause mass casualties, likely to fuel a sinister scheme by Bai Di’s son, and sent Shenwu to aid the front. Meanwhile, Bai Ming calmly fought eight powerful righteous cultivators at the battlefield’s core.

• Yang Lingqing simulated the battle more than a hundred times and concluded that the offensive’s purpose was the bloodshed itself.
• Yang Lingqing suspected Bai Di’s son was using the casualties for a blood-art scheme and summoned Shenwu to help at the front.
• Shenwu accepted Yang Lingqing’s order and flew toward the Central Region front.
• Dongfang Yingcai, Lorraine, Yang Lingshu, and other righteous experts continued trying to intercept Bai Ming.
• Bai Ming faced the eight experts with ease, displaying combat strength far beyond what his Late-Spiritual Connection Realm cultivation suggested.

Dongfang Yingcai’s Spirit Puppet Method let the righteous experts confront Bai Ming without risking the mind-corrupting effects of his demonic technique. Bai Ming drew a blood-hungry entity through the underground veins toward the battle, but it stopped short and watched from beneath the earth.

• Dongfang Yingcai used her independent spirit puppets to attack Bai Ming while the other seven righteous experts supported her.
• Bai Ming ordered an all-out assault after realizing he could not overcome Dongfang Yingcai with conventional methods.
• Bai Ming’s lotus roots revealed a strange, near-True Intent presence in the underground mineral veins that was drawn to blood qi.
• Bai Ming lured the entity toward the battlefield by ordering his demon cultivators to unleash a fierce assault.
• The entity approached to within ten li of the fighters, then stopped and absorbed blood qi from the dead as Bai Ming watched.

Bai Ming’s Blood-Burning Incense injured one Fuyao Sect True Person and threatened to spread its soul-bewildering fragrance across the battlefield. As Dongfang Yingcai led the remaining fighters against him, Yang Lingqing studied the demonic invasion’s routes and began to see through Bai Ming’s hidden purpose.

• Bai Ming’s Blood-Burning Incense corrupted a Fuyao Sect True Person’s Mysterious Wind, forcing him to sever their connection and withdraw from the battle.
• Dongfang Yingcai gave the injured fighter a chance to retreat, then handed spirit puppet talismans to Yang Lingshu and the others.
• Dongfang Yingcai and Lorraine led the remaining fighters in a renewed assault on Bai Ming to stop his fragrance from spreading toward the rear lines.
• Yang Lingqing received Dongfang Yingcai’s report and studied a map of the Northwest borderlands, tracing the demonic army’s routes to uncover Bai Ming’s likely purpose.

Yang Lingqing sent the King Insect to the Central Region front after learning that an underground evil creature had appeared there, while Dragon Martial True Person hurried toward the Northwest. On the battlefield, Dongfang Yingcai separated from her allies to test the creature herself, revealing a pure dragon-breath aura that made Bai Ming wary.

• Yang Lingqing concluded that Yue Wuxiang's apparent presence near the Central Region battlefront was likely a fusion with another evil creature, then sent the King Insect to the front.
• Dragon Martial True Person traveled aboard an immortal vessel toward the Northwest front as Bai Ming maneuvered closer to the underground evil creature.
• The evil creature surged beneath the battlefield toward the blood fragrance, and Bai Ming poured black blood onto his blue flames to release corrosive smoke.
• Dongfang Yingcai received an urgent order, drew her six allies behind her with her magic treasure, and identified the approaching creature as an enemy escaped from a True Intent Cultivator.
• Dongfang Yingcai went forward alone to test the creature, enveloped herself in spiritual essence light, and revealed a pure dragon-breath aura that alerted Bai Ming.

Dongfang Yingcai and the cultivators battled a stone-bodied evil creature, while Yang Lingshu realized its resentment came from Su Dingcang’s death in the Central Region. The creature’s origins were revealed as Yue Wuxiang had intercepted Su Dingcang’s returning resentment and built it into a weapon against his enemies.

• Dongfang Yingcai struck Bai Ming aside, then pursued the underground evil creature and forced it out of the earth.
• Yang Lingshu recognized that the creature’s body was made from the Su Family’s ore and sensed despair and unwillingness in its consciousness.
• Yang Lingshu concluded that Su Dingcang had died in the Central Region without achieving revenge against the Nangong Clan.
• Yue Wuxiang had intercepted Su Dingcang’s resentment as it traveled toward the Su Family’s ancestral land and used it to form the creature.
• The creature had grown stronger by absorbing blood qi and shattered corpses during successive battles.

Bai Ming unleashed the full power of his Lotus Dharma Body and fought Dongfang Yingcai in the sky while the other cultivators held off the stone-bodied evil creature. Dongfang Yingcai identified the talisman arts woven into Bai Ming’s body, but the battle continued beyond the cultivators’ sight, leaving them uncertain whether her armor could withstand him.

• Bai Ming’s five-colored lotus dais manifested a Lotus Dharma Body, sending Dongfang Yingcai back and filling the scorched land with new growth.
• Dongfang Yingcai told the others to keep the stone-bodied evil creature occupied while she faced Bai Ming alone.
• Bai Ming struck Dongfang Yingcai’s Dragon-Scale Battle Armor and forced her back as his enhanced strength gave him an advantage.
• Dongfang Yingcai blocked Bai Ming’s explosive talisman attack with two spirit puppets and realized his skin was inscribed with talisman arts.
• Bai Ming and Dongfang Yingcai continued fighting as they rose beyond the cultivators’ sight, while the others struggled to contain the stone-bodied evil creature.

Bai Ming used his flesh-fed insect swarm to trap the exhausted Dongfang Yingcai and prepare a killing attack. Just as he unleashed it, his instincts warned him of danger, and an unseen force blasted him backward into his lotus dharma manifestation.

• Dongfang Yingcai recognized Bai Ming’s flying insects as a rare form of insect cultivation and activated her family’s protective ritual-disk treasure.
• Bai Ming held back while the swarm drained Dongfang Yingcai’s spiritual essence, confident she had few options left.
• When an azure spell-light appeared within the swarm, Bai Ming scattered the insects and attacked Dongfang Yingcai from three directions with his bone sword and spell technique.
• Bai Ming sensed an anomaly, raised a lotus leaf to shield himself, and was struck by a powerful blast that sent him flying into his lotus dharma manifestation.

The adult King Insect ambushed and split the stone-bodied evil creature, revealing its dragon-like form to the cultivators. After the creature's body collapsed, the cultivators sensed its root resentment fleeing underground, and the King Insect raced off to intercept it.

• The fully matured King Insect burst from underground and sliced the stone-bodied evil creature in two.
• Yang Lingshu told the startled cultivators that the King Insect was a spirit pet raised beneath the clan's sacred ground.
• The creature's body crumbled, but the cultivators sensed its root resentment escaping underground toward the rear battle line.
• The King Insect told Yang Lingshu to lead the cultivators in surrounding the fiend while it pursued the root resentment.
• The King Insect spread its scaled wings and sped underground after the fleeing evil fiend.

Shenwu, Zhuo Hanqing, and Dongfang Yingcai overwhelmed Bai Ming in battle, but the Lotus Dharma Body’s barrier stopped them from finishing him. Wounded but still standing, Bai Ming revealed that he had come to the Northwest to follow his father’s instructions and seek the Vaulting Dragon Lord.

• Shenwu, Zhuo Hanqing, and Dongfang Yingcai joined forces and steadily drove Bai Ming into a disadvantage.
• Bai Ming guessed that Shenwu and Zhuo Hanqing belonged to a reclusive cultivation lineage from the Northwest.
• Zhuo Hanqing and Dongfang Yingcai wounded Bai Ming, and Shenwu smashed him from the sky with his turtle shell.
• The Lotus Dharma Body blocked the three pursuers while Bai Ming slowly rose with his mutilated body.
• Bai Ming said he had come to the Northwest to follow his father’s instructions and exchange views on the Dao with the Vaulting Dragon Lord.

Yang Yuanhong arrived to face Bai Ming, who welcomed the chance to test his Dao against the Northwest prodigy. After restoring Dongfang Yingcai and learning about Bai Ming’s powers, Yang Yuanhong prepared to confront him while she went to retrieve Zhuo Hanqing.

• Bai Ming recognized Yang Yuanhong and eagerly welcomed the chance to fight him, then retreated into the Lotus Dharma Body’s protection.
• Yang Yuanhong descended beside Dongfang Yingcai and ignored Bai Ming’s greeting to check on her.
• Yang Yuanhong gave Dongfang Yingcai another Three-Turn Minor Restoration Pill, and she recovered from her injuries.
• Dongfang Yingcai warned Yang Yuanhong about Bai Ming’s unusual body and the Lotus Dharma Body, but he reassured her that he understood.
• Yang Yuanhong told Dongfang Yingcai to bring Zhuo Hanqing back to the rear, while Bai Ming watched their exchange with suspicion.

Bai Ming struggled to withstand Yang Yuanhong’s overwhelming assault, but Yang shattered his defenses and broke free of Bai Ming’s Spirit Eye technique. As Yang’s Dragon Shadows began to topple the Lotus Dharma Body, Bai Ming decided to unleash another power.

• Bai Ming used his Dharma Body and Five-Colored Extreme Demon Power to block Yang Yuanhong’s attacks, but Yang overwhelmed him with a barrage of punches and kicks.
• Bai Ming spent decades of lifespan to escape Yang’s assault and trap him with Spirit Eye Baleful Break, then retreated into the Lotus Dharma Body to recover.
• Yang Yuanhong broke free of the black light, crushed it, and unleashed countless Dragon Shadows that matched his own power.
• Bai Ming used Spirit Eye Universal Illumination to resist the Dragon Shadows, but they continued to overwhelm the Lotus Dharma Body.
• Bai Ming resolved to act decisively as the Lotus Dharma Body began to tilt under the Dragon Shadows’ assault.

Bai Ming reinforced the Lotus Dharma Body to resist Yang Yuanhong while the five-colored tribulation gathered overhead. As Bai Ming tightened his hold on Yang Yuanhong, the black dragon stopped resisting and strange cracking sounds came from its body.

• Bai Ming used the Five-Colored Extreme Demon Method to reinforce the Lotus Dharma Body, thwarting Yang Yuanhong's attempts to bite through it.
• Yang Yuanhong abandoned brute force and studied the Dharma Body as the five-colored tribulation clouds formed above them.
• Bai Ming reasoned that Yang Yuanhong could not destroy the Dharma Body and expected the approaching tribulation to force him to flee.
• Bai Ming bound Yang Yuanhong with Baleful-Breaking Black Lights as the first crimson-winded lightning began to emerge from the clouds.
• Yang Yuanhong's resistance suddenly weakened, and Bai Ming heard bones and flesh shifting and cracking inside the dragon's body.

Bai Ming was swallowed by Yang Yuanhong but believed he could use the coming lightning tribulation to attack from within and turn the fight around. Instead, Yang Yuanhong absorbed the tribulation and used blood mist empowered by Blood Sun Venerable God's divine power to erode Bai Ming's Lotus Dharma Body.

• Bai Ming calmed himself inside Yang Yuanhong and planned to attack during the lightning tribulation.
• Bai Ming unleashed his techniques from within as the tribulation struck Yang Yuanhong's dragon body.
• Yang Yuanhong's enormous body absorbed the lightning with little harm, and he rolled over to let it refine his whole body.
• Bai Ming discovered that a red membrane absorbed his attacks and that blood mist was spreading through Yang Yuanhong's belly.
• The blood mist began breaking apart Bai Ming's Lotus Dharma Body, shattering his last defense.

After Bai Ming’s body and soul scattered, Yang Yuanhong sensed a wisp of his soul escape through space, then pursued the fading Black Death Lightning Tribulation into the clouds to seize its benefits. Those watching recognized his courage and waited anxiously to see whether he would survive.

• Yang Yuanhong sensed Bai Ming’s faint soul escape beyond his reach and decided to remember the spatial technique behind it.
• With Bai Ming gone and the tribulation fading, Yang Yuanhong leapt into the clouds to confront the Black Death Lightning Tribulation.
• Yang Yuanhong fought the lightning and ghostly faces inside the clouds as Dongfang Yingcai and the others watched from afar.
• Yuchi Lian considered seeking Yang Yuanhong’s dragon aura for his cultivation and Tiger Chasing’s future.
• Lorraine recognized Yang Yuanhong as the Venerable Lord who had freed her people and prayed for his victory.
• Yang Lingshu reassured Dongfang Yingcai that Yang Yuanhong had likely entered the clouds to gain more from the tribulation after killing Bai Ming.

Yang Yuanhong absorbed most of the Five-Colored Great Tribulation, then triggered his True Intent tribulation to devour the remaining lightning and break through. As he claimed Martial Fortune from Venerable Daohé and Earth Fiend Demon Lord, Venerable Daohé drew Earth Fiend Demon Lord into his Rice Paddy Mystic Realm.

• Yang Yuanhong found that the weakening Black Death Lightning Tribulation was dispersing despite his efforts to keep it in place.
• Yang Yuanhong triggered his True Intent Great Tribulation again, trapping the Black Death Lightning Tribulation inside it.
• Yang Yuanhong declared that he would take Martial Fortune from Venerable Daohé and Earth Fiend Demon Lord as he entered the True Intent Realm.
• Venerable Daohé sensed Yang Yuanhong's attempt to claim his fortune and smiled, while Earth Fiend Demon Lord realized a junior was targeting him.
• Venerable Daohé attacked Earth Fiend Demon Lord and dragged him into his Rice Paddy Mystic Realm.

Yang Yuanhong endured the fifth Soul-Severing Tribulation after it merged with the Black Death Lightning Tribulation, suffering severe damage to his body and soul. As his soul flame weakened, Blood Sun grew anxious, but Chen Yang told him to remain seated.

• The Black Death Lightning Tribulation merged into the fifth tribulation and mocked Yang Yuanhong as it prepared to consume him.
• Yang Yuanhong faced the Soul-Severing Tribulation, which surpassed the combined power of the previous four and crushed him from the sky to the ground.
• The tribulation tore at Yang Yuanhong's body and mind after he had his protections removed to gain its full benefits.
• Chen Yang sensed Yang Yuanhong's fading soul flame but remained calm because he knew Yang Yuanhong still had trump cards.
• Blood Sun worried that Yang Yuanhong would not survive and tried to leave, but Chen Yang ordered him to sit down.