Recaps

Yang Lingrui’s Ghost-Head Long Saber survived the Redfire Tribulation, and he emerged in a bloodfire-red robe to strike the Soul Law Spirit. The spirit escaped his attack and summoned a host of familiar Arcane Corpses to block his path.

• Chen Yang refused to help Yang Lingrui dispel the tribulation, insisting that the blade had to withstand its tempering.
• The Ghost-Head Long Saber absorbed the Redfire Tribulation and burst from the molten fire as Yang Lingrui rose with it in hand.
• Yang Lingrui struck the Soul Law Spirit, cutting away fifty years of its refined lifespan, but the spirit hid itself in the fog.
• The Soul Law Spirit sent twenty or thirty Arcane Corpses—all cultivators Yang Lingrui had killed, now strengthened to the True Intent Realm—to confront him.

Chen Yang tried to end his fight with Dark Underworld Venerable and Qin Changsheng after the Upper Realm cultivator disappeared, while hinting that other forces were involved in the Great Competition of Two Daos. He left them wondering about the hidden threat he had sensed beneath Canglan Continent.

• Chen Yang warned Dark Underworld Venerable and Qin Changsheng that he had no reason to keep fighting now that Ten Thousand Corpses had taken the Upper Realm cultivator away.
• Dark Underworld Venerable asked Chen Yang to stay until the Great Competition of Two Daos ended, saying his departure would leave him uneasy.
• Chen Yang asked whether Dark Underworld Venerable was certain there were no other variables in the contest, prompting both opponents to question his meaning.
• Chen Yang recalled sensing an aura in Canglan Continent that matched the calamitous black shadows he had seen in the Illusory Realm of Time.
• Chen Yang had used the Bright Mirror atop the Canglan Divine Palace to show the gods the shadows, and they understood that hidden beings beyond the Canglan gods were watching the contest.

Chen Yang realized the shadowy beings were lingering karmic poisons from the old Divine Path and reasoned that the Old Divine Lord had buried the gods to weaken their influence. He concluded that the Soul-Severing Karma Cut in Canglan Continent might trigger their arrival.

• Chen Yang deduced that the shadowy beings were remnants of the karma tied to the Divine Path’s destruction.
• Chen Yang concluded that the Old Divine Lord had hunted and buried the gods both to resist the Outer-Heaven Cataclysm and to reduce the old karma’s effects on the future.
• Chen Yang considered what event could draw the karmic remnants into the present world and reviewed the great variables gathering around the Great Competition of Two Daos.
• Chen Yang realized that the fighting beyond Heaven had not summoned the remnants and turned his attention to the Soul-Severing Karma Cut being carried out by the Dao Venerable of the Righteous Path and Yang Lingrui.

The karmic remnants of the old Divine Path suppressed Azure Waves to preserve their existence and force the predetermined rise of the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord. Chen Yang’s withdrawal and the Demon Lord’s worsening position left their plan hanging by a thread.

• The karmic remnants lost Chen Yang’s trail after he sealed his doors and went into seclusion, while Wu Chang remained trapped and unable to provide them with clues.
• The remnants realized they could not abandon their foothold in immortal Dao karma because the Temporal Divine Seal would let the River of Time erase them.
• The remnants sought to seize the bodies of Divine Path survivors such as Chen Yang and Wu Chang to escape that fate.
• The remnants used Azure Waves’ karmic power to suppress variables and preserve the predetermined trajectory of the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord ascending to the heavens.
• Chen Yang had severely wounded the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord, and Yang Lingrui threatened to sever his connection to the Soul Severing Realm.

Shen Yue and several powerful cultivators heard an indistinct voice calling for help near Demon Suppression Pass. Ling Shuang connected the listeners through their ties to Yang Lingrui, leaving them to investigate the call’s meaning.

• Shen Yue heard a familiar voice calling to him and followed it to the Black Flame Barrier at Demon Suppression Pass.
• Ling Shuang, Mo Yunzhou, Xiao, and Chi Tian arrived after hearing the same call.
• Mo Yunzhou suggested the listeners shared a connection, and Ling Shuang traced it to their ties with Yang Lingrui.
• Ling Shuang concluded that Yang Lingrui was most likely sending the call, and the group began comparing what they had heard.

Yang Lingqing figured out that Yang Lingrui’s call for help referred to the True Self Cave Heaven, which could serve as a route to reach him in the Soul Law Land. She sent four cultivators through the cave heaven to aid him, while he remained trapped amid the dharma corpses.

• Yun Xiwu told Yang Lingqing that Yang Lingrui had once experienced a special space while his soul was scattered in the Wind Cavern.
• Yang Lingqing reasoned that a special space could let cultivators bypass the distance to the Central Region and reach Yang Lingrui.
• Yang Lingqing identified the True Self Cave Heaven as an accessible space and ordered Xue Qingluan and Chen Huaien to open a path to it.
• Yang Lingqing sent Yang Yuanhong, Yun Xiwu, Ying Cai, and Shenwu to help Yang Lingrui, and the four entered the cave heaven with Xue Qingluan and Chen Huaien.
• Yang Lingrui remained trapped in the Soul Law Land, enduring the dangers surrounding him.

Yang Lingrui summoned Yang Yuanhong’s power through the Soul Intent Descent Technique, unsettling the Soul Law Spirit’s belief that trust between cultivators was impossible. After Yang Lingrui provoked it into revealing its aura, Yang Yuanhong attacked the spirit.

• The Soul Law Spirit recognized the Soul Intent Descent Technique and was shocked that Yang Yuanhong had entrusted Yang Lingrui with his soul intent.
• Yang Lingrui challenged the Soul Law Spirit’s cynical beliefs and said its experience in the demonic land had made it narrow-minded.
• The Soul Law Spirit grew angry, stirred the wind and sand, and pinned Yang Lingrui in place as it defended its views.
• Yang Lingrui’s provocation made the Soul Law Spirit lose control and reveal its aura, giving Yang Lingrui and Yang Yuanhong an opening.
• Yang Yuanhong attacked the Soul Law Spirit, multiplying his punch into more than a hundred strikes.

Yang Yuanhong countered four Dharma corpses summoned by the Soul Law Spirit and quickly destroyed them with his perfected strength arts. The Soul Law Spirit was left facing Yang Yuanhong’s overwhelming combat ability.

• Yang Lingrui identified the four Dharma corpses’ sword, fire, lightning, and sound attacks and shared their positions with Yang Yuanhong.
• Yang Yuanhong shielded Yang Lingrui with his dragon shadow as a spatial sword strike pierced his body.
• Yang Yuanhong used the Blood Refining Technique to refine the sword and returned its sword qi, destroying the sword cultivator Dharma corpse.
• Yang Yuanhong created countless Martial Qi illusory bodies that overwhelmed two more Dharma corpses.
• Yang Yuanhong struck down the final Dharma corpse with his black dragon breath.

Yun Xiwu and Yang Lingrui used the Void Nether Divine Wind to weaken the Soul Law Spirit and help Yang Lingrui regain most of his strength. Yang Lingrui and Yang Yuanhong defeated the Dragon-Slaying Corpse, but the Soul Law Spirit retaliated with a powerful fist that left Yang Yuanhong injured.

• Yun Xiwu secretly joined Yang Lingrui in spreading the Void Nether Divine Wind, costing the Soul Law Spirit five years of lifespan and restoring Yang Lingrui to about ninety percent of his peak strength.
• Yang Lingrui summoned a divine wind sword and joined Yang Yuanhong in battle against the Dragon-Slaying Corpse, quickly suppressing it.
• Yang Lingrui severed the Dragon-Slaying Corpse's arm, prompting the Soul Law Spirit to block the pair's finishing attack with a spatial barrier.
• The Soul Law Spirit sent a massive fist shadow at the two Yangs; Yang Yuanhong confronted it while Yang Lingrui pursued the wounded corpse.
• Yang Yuanhong was blasted back by the fist, but Yang Lingrui killed the Dragon-Slaying Corpse, allowing Yang Yuanhong to reform his dragon body and return to his side.

Yang Lingrui attacked the Buddhist monk’s dharma corpse, whose Buddhist techniques suppressed his killing intent and battered Shenwu’s soul intent. After withdrawing Shenwu to protect it, Yang Lingrui pressed on with a direct assault and discovered the weak point behind the monk’s left ear.

• Yang Lingrui attacked the Buddhist monk’s dharma corpse with the Soul-Slaying Blade and the Void Nether Divine Wind sword, while the monk repelled him with Buddhist radiance.
• Yang Lingrui used phantom bodies to distract the monk, then struck at his neck with the Divine Wind sword, but the monk’s Immovable Vajra form withstood the blow.
• The monk suppressed Yang Lingrui’s killing intent and struck Shenwu’s soul intent repeatedly with the Vajra Fist Seal.
• Yang Lingrui withdrew Shenwu to prevent further damage, then attacked the monk’s golden body without defending himself.
• Yang Lingrui targeted the Yifeng acupoint behind the monk’s left ear, the concealed weakness in his Immovable Golden Body Technique.

Ling Shuang destroyed the remaining dharma corpses, while Chi Tian helped Yang Lingrui restore his shattered body. Unable to strike with Taicang’s sword intent guarding them, the Soul Law Spirit spent another hundred years of lifespan and faced a choice between preserving itself and obeying the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord.

• Ling Shuang annihilated the three wounded dharma corpses and the Earthly Baleful dharma corpse fighting Yang Yuanhong with a sweep of Sword Qi.
• Chi Tian greeted Yang Lingrui and used his soul-intent dao art to restore Yang Lingrui’s bones, limbs, flesh, and blood.
• Yang Lingrui recovered under Taicang’s protection, while the Soul Law Spirit found itself unable to approach him.
• The Soul Law Spirit condensed another hundred years of lifespan, bringing its total expenditure past half of its original reserve.
• The Soul Law Spirit hesitated between preserving its existence and carrying out the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord’s decree.

Ling Shuang fought an old Sword Cultivator summoned by the Soul Art spirit while Yang Lingrui continued deeper into the Soul Art with Shen Yue’s help. As the spirit’s power weakened, the berserk souls in the Canglan Righteous Path calmed, and Venerable Yuehan learned that Yang Lingrui had helped save him.

• Ling Shuang clashed with the old Sword Cultivator, who suppressed his attack by drawing three inches of his blade.
• Shen Yue sheltered Yang Lingrui from the sword qi as he rebuilt his body, and Yang Lingrui thanked him before continuing onward.
• Shen Yue joined Yang Lingrui for the final stretch through the Soul Art, and Yang Lingrui advanced with renewed resolve.
• The Soul Art spirit’s expenditure of two hundred years of lifespan caused the berserk phenomenon in the Canglan Righteous Path to subside.
• Venerable Yuehan regained control, and Venerable Xuansheng realized Yang Lingrui’s progress had likely calmed the souls.
• Venerable Yuehan learned Yang Lingrui’s name and resolved to remember his favor.

Ling Shuang faced the resurrected old Sword Cultivator and defeated his concealed-edge sword with her Wandering Dragon Pursues Truth technique. Before the clash ended, her sword intent inspired him to take a new step in the Sword Dao, though too late to change the tragedies of his life.

• The old Sword Cultivator attacked Ling Shuang with his fully unleashed concealed-edge sword as a Dragon Shadow descended.
• Ling Shuang invoked the Meishan patriarch’s teaching and used the Taicang Sword’s dragon aspect to pin down the old Sword Cultivator’s sword intent.
• Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong joined their strength in her Wandering Dragon Pursues Truth strike, which broke the old Sword Cultivator’s great sword.
• The old Sword Cultivator answered with Silent Fate Pierces the Profound and, guided by Ling Shuang’s sword intent, took a new step on his path of the Dao.

Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong defeated the old Sword Cultivator and found Yang Lingrui safely comprehending the Soul Law beneath the Unbeaten Green Mountain. Unaware that the Soul Law Spirit had fused with the Soul Law Core to survive, the group reached the core, where Yang Lingrui prepared to enter alone.

• Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong recovered after their joint strike, and Yang Yuanhong confirmed he was only tired.
• Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong followed a disturbance to Yang Lingrui, who had entered a state of enlightenment beneath the Unbeaten Green Mountain while Shen Yue watched over him.
• Ling Shuang raised the Taicang Sword above the mountain to protect Yang Lingrui, while the group grew wary of the Soul Law Spirit's silence.
• The Soul Law Spirit fused with the Soul Law Core to preserve its chance of survival and resist Yang Lingrui's Soul-Severing Karma Cut.
• Yang Lingrui and his companions passed through the Soul Law without further obstacles and reached the golden-breathed core, where Yang Lingrui thanked them and prepared to proceed alone.

The shadows of old causality empowered the Soul Law Spirit, allowing it to retain its consciousness and resist Yang Lingrui’s attempt to sever its connection to the Soul Law. The spirit drew Yang Lingrui and the summoned cultivators into the passage between soul and realm, then dispersed its spirituality.

• The shadows of old causality redirected their power into the Soul Law Land to protect the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord’s chances of surviving his tribulation.
• Causal power merged with the Soul Law Spirit and spell core, preserving the spirit’s consciousness and greatly strengthening its control over the Soul Law.
• Yang Lingrui found the Soul Law Spirit and swung his blade to Sever Karma.
• The Soul Law Spirit gathered the soul-returning power at the core, causing Yang Lingrui’s strike to miss and pulling him into the void passage between soul and realm.
• The soul intents of the cultivators Yang Lingrui had summoned were drawn into the same passage, and the Soul Law Spirit dispersed its spirituality.

Ling Shuang led a group of survivors through the frozen wilderness to the valley refuge, where they mourned Uncle Wang and celebrated reaching warmth. She reunited with Yun Xiwu and learned that Dongfang Yingcai had made new progress investigating the world's origins, while Yang Yuanhong was still away.

• Ling Shuang assured the survivors that they would endure the calamity, and the dying Uncle Wang encouraged them to keep moving before he passed away.
• A young boy vowed to carry Uncle Wang's conviction and strive to live on, and Ling Shuang led the group into the valley.
• Ling Shuang opened the wind curtain with her stonewood sword, and the survivors entered the warm refuge and wept with relief.
• Yun Xiwu greeted Ling Shuang and told her that Yang Yuanhong had not returned after half a month away.
• Yun Xiwu took Ling Shuang to Dongfang Yingcai, whose research into the origins of the world had made new progress.

Ling Shuang, Yun Xiwu, and Dongfang Yingcai considered how the Soul Law Spirit might have created the strange realm and suspected an unseen force was helping him. Yang Yuanhong returned with news of powerful dharma corpses hidden in the wind and snow, leaving the group warned of a new threat.

• Dongfang Yingcai's deduction led Ling Shuang and Yun Xiwu to suspect the Soul Law space had been formed from the souls of those killed in Azure Waves' great calamity.
• Ling Shuang suggested that something was aiding the Soul Law Spirit, though she could not tell whether it was a person.
• Shenwu informed Ling Shuang, Yun Xiwu, and Dongfang Yingcai that Yang Yuanhong had returned, and they gathered with Chi Tian and Shen Yue at the valley entrance.
• Yang Yuanhong showed the group a wound on his dragon arm and reported that special dharma corpses had fused with the realm's wind and snow aura.
• Yang Yuanhong explained that the dharma corpses were near the group's cultivation level but could draw on the world's wind and snow in battle.

The seven cultivators prepared for an assault on the snow peak to find Yang Lingrui, assigning reconnaissance, crafting, and supply duties while Yun Xiwu stayed behind to protect the valley’s survivors. After three months, they had identified three types of dharma corpses and learned that the strongest ones remained dangerous despite their cultivation being suppressed.

• Yang Yuanhong and Ling Shuang took charge of scouting the snow peak, while Dongfang Yingcai, Chi Tian, Shen Yue, and Shenwu prepared implements, supplies, protective writings, and turtle shells.
• Yun Xiwu chose to remain in the valley and sustain her wind arts to protect the commoners, despite wanting to join the effort to find Yang Lingrui.
• Over the next three months, the cultivators gathered information about the dharma corpses surrounding the snow peak.
• They learned that mindless dharma corpses were the most numerous, enlightened dharma corpses used spells and ambushes, and complete-form dharma corpses posed the greatest threat.
• The cultivators discovered that most complete-form dharma corpses had Qi Gathering cultivation and a few had Essence Condensation cultivation, while the world’s Dao laws severely restricted the cultivators’ own abilities.

The Soul Law Spirit tormented Yang Lingrui with visions of his loved ones dying, but his grief strengthened his resolve to cleave souls and sever karma, wounding the Spirit. As Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong’s groups reached the snowy peak, the Spirit intensified the storm to make their real battle more dangerous.

• The Soul Law Spirit showed Yang Lingrui repeated visions of Yang Yuanhong, Ling Shuang, Dongfang Yingcai, Shen Yue, Chi Tian, Shenwu, and the person he loved most dying horribly.
• Yang Lingrui remained outwardly unmoved, while his fury at the visions fed his soul-cleaving and Sever Karma intent, which pierced deeper into the Soul Law Spirit.
• The Soul Law Spirit realized its illusions had reignited Yang Lingrui’s fighting spirit instead of breaking his will.
• The groups led by Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong reached the outskirts of the snowy peak region.
• The Soul Law Spirit stirred karma to unleash fiercer winds and colder weather, increasing the danger for the cultivators while empowering the Dharma Corpses.

The cultivators began climbing the snowy peak, only to be ambushed by complete-form law corpses. As the two groups fought to hold their ground, the Soul Law Spirit watched from the summit and waited for them to lose hope.

• The warning spirit treasures on the cultivators broke as twelve complete-form law corpses descended on their ridge.
• Yang Yuanhong flew off to fight the three Core Formation Realm law corpses, leaving Dongfang Yingcai and Shenwu to face the others.
• Dongfang Yingcai and Shenwu struck down two law corpses and worked together to defend against the remaining attackers.
• Complete-form law corpses attacked Ling Shuang's group, while Sword Immortal Taicang handled the fighting and Chi Tian and Shen Yue supported Ling Shuang.
• The Soul Law Spirit watched both battles from the summit, confident that even the cultivators would eventually despair.

Ling Shuang and the other cultivators faced a second attack by thirty-six complete-form Arcane Corpses after the Soul Law Spirit scattered them. Meanwhile, worsening cold reached the valley, and a mortal young man turned the commoners against the Immortal Masters as their fear grew.

• Ling Shuang sensed thirty-six complete-form Arcane Corpses and called the six cultivators together, but the Soul Law Spirit used spatial Daoist Magic to scatter them.
• Yun Xiwu felt the wind and snow press deeper into the valley, where the mortal commoners began noticing the falling temperature.
• A young man seized an old man and argued that the Immortal Masters would abandon the commoners if conditions worsened, while the old man defended those who had saved them.
• As the cave dwelling neared freezing, the young man questioned why the Immortal Masters had rescued the commoners and blamed them for the three years of wind and snow.
• The commoners began whispering and murmuring as the young man's accusations stirred suspicion.

Yun Xiwu held back the wind and snow to protect the common folk, even as the cold froze her in place and pushed her to the brink. Five people emerged from the underground and, realizing she was saving them, went back to prepare a fire while she struggled to stay conscious.

• The old man led the common folk up the staircase, and only five people reached the upper level after others turned back from the cold.
• The five saw Yun Xiwu frozen at the valley entrance, holding back the wind and snow from the underground dwelling.
• Yun Xiwu urged them to return underground, and the young man realized she was risking her life to protect them.
• The old man led the four young people back to gather firewood and bring a fire up to melt the ice and snow around Yun Xiwu.
• Yun Xiwu fought off sleep and clung to hope that Senior Sister Ling and Yuan Hong would succeed.

The Soul Law Spirit repeatedly turned Snow Peak to exhaust the six cultivators, while Yang Lingrui refused its offer to surrender. As the injured group struggled toward the summit, the Soul Law Spirit sensed an unexplained disturbance and turned its attention to Yun Xiwu in the valley.

• The Soul Law Spirit flipped Snow Peak again, forcing the six cultivators to fight through another group of Arcane Corpses as their strength dwindled.
• The Soul Law Spirit showed Yang Lingrui the six cultivators' dire condition and offered to send everyone back to the Canglan Continent if she stopped casting her spell.
• Yang Lingrui rejected the offer, and the Soul Law Spirit turned the mountain over once more.
• The six cultivators regrouped and continued climbing, but Shen Yue, Shenwu, Chi Tian, Dongfang Yingcai, and Yang Yuanhong suffered grave injuries as Ling Shuang fought to protect them.
• The Soul Law Spirit felt unease that did not come from Yang Lingrui or the six cultivators, so it searched the valley for Yun Xiwu.

An unseen power restored sunlight, warmth, vegetation, and abundant spiritual energy to the Wind-Snow World, leaving the Soul Law Spirit unable to find or fight its mysterious opponent. Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong recovered enough to clear the corpses around them, while the Soul Law Spirit clung to the hope that the realm’s laws still favored his law corpses.

• The Soul Law Spirit accused Yang Lingrui of creating the mysterious voice, then lost his composure when a golden sun appeared and suppressed the wind and snow.
• The unseen being summoned Zi Xue and Cui Zhu, whose purple snow and emerald light awakened plants and life throughout the Wind-Snow World.
• The unseen being shattered hidden spaces, releasing torrents of pure spiritual energy across the realm.
• Ling Shuang and Yang Yuanhong recovered their strength and cleared the surrounding corpse horde with dragon breath and Sword Qi.
• The Soul Law Spirit urged the law corpses to attack, then reassured himself that they could still win because the realm’s laws remained unchanged.

Blood Sun Venerable God led the Canglan Divine Host into the Wind-Snow Void Realm to protect Yang Lingrui and turn the fight against the Soul Law Spirit. The Soul Law Spirit and the old shadows of karma realized that the Canglan gods had overturned their advantage and made the struggle a direct battle for survival.

• Blood Sun Venerable God thanked Chen Yang for restoring him and pledged to protect Yang Lingrui.
• Blood Sun Venerable God ordered Liuli, Fu Yin, Ku Yun, Bai Que, Wu Hua, Huang Ding, Cang Jue, and Yu Xun to join him on an expedition.
• Blood Sun Venerable God opened a crimson river through the Canglan void, and the Canglan Divine Host descended into the Wind-Snow Void Realm.
• The Soul Law Spirit was overwhelmed by the gods' power and began considering surrender.
• The old shadows of karma were stunned when the Canglan gods entered the conflict, and they recognized that the outcome was no longer under their control.