Recaps

Yang Xuanzhou explained the Kunxu Secret Realm’s layered structure and led the Snow Clan cultivators to explore their region. On the highest level, Ling Shuang and Yang Lingrui began their long-awaited debate on the Dao as the continent’s major factions gathered and watched.

• Yang Xuanzhou explained that Qi Gathering cultivators occupied the lowest spaces of the Kunxu Secret Realm, then accepted the Snow Clan cultivators’ request to lead them.
• Yang Xuanzhou led the Snow Clan group into the unknown region of the Secret Realm.
• Ling Shuang and Yang Lingrui met in the highest-level space to hold the debate on the Dao they had arranged eighteen years earlier.
• The Yang Clan and its allies entered the Secret Realm together, while the Lingxiao Dao Academy’s faction also acted as a group.
• Long Yuan asked Yang Yuanhong which sword Ling Shuang had unleashed as True Intent Cultivators watched the contest.

Nangong Jinghe explained how Sword Immortal Taicang treated space as something tangible and wielded it as a sword, clarifying the principle behind Ling Shuang’s sword techniques. The gathered True Intent Cultivators understood the distinction from the Void-Slaying Sword Art, and Nangong Jinghe credited Yang Yuanhong with prompting his explanation.

• Elder True Intent Cultivators gathered to listen as Nangong Jinghe demonstrated a sword’s influence on points of light representing separate spaces.
• Yang Yuanhong grasped the demonstration quickly, while Long Yuan needed more time to understand it.
• Nangong Jinghe explained that Taicang’s method made one sword become ten thousand by treating space as tangible, unlike the Void-Slaying Sword Art, which pierced space.
• The gathered cultivators understood that space could become a sword under the Myriad Sword Sect’s principle that all things could be swords.
• Nangong Jinghe told the cultivators to thank Yang Yuanhong, who had prompted him to explain the art.

Luo Qianchou realized that Ling Shuang and Yang Lingrui’s duel was stirring the seal above them and reasoned that Kunxu had once been a battlefield. He concluded that battle, rather than killing power, was the key to opening the sealed space overhead.

• Luo Qianchou sensed that Ling Shuang and Yang Lingrui intended to combine their clash and break through the realm’s dome.
• Luo Qianchou recalled that his Spirit Firmament True-Return Art had revealed the seal’s structure resembled a door and suspected it had a key.
• Luo Qianchou observed that the seal loosened as Ling Shuang and Yang Lingrui’s sword intent and killing intent clashed.
• Luo Qianchou recalled an old description of Kunxu and realized it had once been called the Kunxu Battlefield.
• Luo Qianchou concluded that battle was the key to opening the sealed space and marveled at Yang Lingrui’s perception.

Luo Qianchou approached the Yang Clan while Yang Lingrui and Ling Shuang dueled, then challenged Nangong Jinghe to a fight. He hinted that the duel had a hidden purpose and offered to help Jinghe investigate if Jinghe accepted.

• Luo Qianchou arrived and said the duel had made him eager to fight, puzzling the Yang Clan cultivators.
• Yang Yuanhong asked whom Luo Qianchou wanted to spar with, and Luo said he would fight Yuanhong another time.
• Luo Qianchou turned to Nangong Jinghe and proposed that they spar, while Jinghe suspected he was being used as a target.
• Luo Qianchou privately told Jinghe that Yang Lingrui and Ling Shuang had not begun their duel without a reason.
• Luo Qianchou offered to help Jinghe go investigate the duel if Jinghe accepted the challenge.

Yang Xuanzhou’s followers searched remote areas of the Kunxu Secret Realm for a hidden treasury. After collecting the teams’ maps, Yang Xuanzhou revealed that he expected the site to contain lost Daoist inheritances, leaving An Yu and He Xuanning surprised.

• An Yu and He Xuanning discussed their teams’ searches and why Yang Xuanzhou had sent them to remote areas.
• He Xuanning explained that Yantian Palace cultivators could not deduce anything about members of the Yang Clan, except for a newly advanced Grandmaster of Divination.
• Yang Xuanzhou arrived, and An Yu and He Xuanning presented him with maps of the areas they had investigated.
• Yang Xuanzhou said he was searching for a hidden treasury containing Daoist inheritances lost from the Canglan Continent, surprising An Yu and He Xuanning.

Dongfang Shuci warned Yang Xuanzhou that the Lingxiao Dao Academy and Meishan were secretly tracking their movements. Yang Xuanzhou decided not to intercept their strongest cultivators, instead gathering his allies to focus on finding the hidden treasure.

• Dongfang Shuci showed Yang Xuanzhou traces of scouts from the Dao Academy and Meishan.
• Dongfang Shuci offered to lead a force to stop Han Fenghua, the Meishan swordsman, and the Xuanhuang imperial twins.
• Yang Xuanzhou asked whether Dongfang Shuci's replica Wind-Welcoming Fan could be threatened, leading her to realize that Dharma treasures would make interception futile.
• Yang Xuanzhou chose to focus his strength on finding the hidden treasure and set out with Dongfang Shuci to direct the gathered cultivators.

The three great families failed to find essence qi on their own and approached Yang Xuanzhou’s group to ask for a share. Dongfang Shuci agreed in principle but warned that the cultivators who had worked to secure the gains would need to accept the arrangement, and a clash began.

• Yang Xuanzhou’s Central Region cultivators increased their exploration efforts while the three great families tried to awaken ghost generals carrying essence qi.
• After several days, the three families obtained no essence qi and decided to contact Yang Xuanzhou’s group.
• Dongfang Shuci and other Central Region cultivators met the delegation led by Han Fenghua, who asked to help slay dead ghosts in exchange for a share of the spoils.
• Dongfang Shuci said Yang Xuanzhou would agree to share essence qi but questioned whether the other cultivators would surrender gains they had earned through their efforts.
• An unseen cultivator unleashed sword intent at the delegation, and Dongfang Shuci scattered it with a Mysterious Wind.

Yang Xuanzhou easily defeated Fang Hanchuan after receiving his sword strike, then demanded that the toll be doubled again under their agreement. Fang Hanchuan demanded to know what technique Yang had used, but Yang refused to reveal the secret.

• Fang Hanchuan unleashed Meishan’s Sword Stirring Storms at Yang Xuanzhou, while He Xuanning and An Yu discussed the move’s power.
• Dongfang Shuci ordered the cultivators to retreat as Fang Hanchuan’s sword struck Yang Xuanzhou amid a burst of azure radiance.
• Yang Xuanzhou smashed Fang Hanchuan down from the sky, leaving the watching cultivators astonished by their combat strength.
• Fang Hanchuan rejected help from his fellow Meishan cultivators and demanded to know what technique Yang Xuanzhou had used.
• Yang Xuanzhou refused to share his intelligence and said Fang Hanchuan’s failed attack meant the agreed toll had to be doubled again.

Yang Xuanzhou, Han Fenghua, and Dongfang Shuci used their magical treasures to halt the colossal mountain’s descent while Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang activated the Divine Path Stele. As the hidden treasury began to open, ghost generals emerged and attacked the two Yang Clan cultivators, leaving the others to defend them under crushing pressure.

• Yang Xuanzhou, Han Fenghua, Dongfang Shuci, and Fang Hanchuan rose to meet the descending mountain shadow with their magical treasures.
• Yang Xuanzhou’s dragon scale manifested a blood-bone True Dragon that stopped the mountain, while Han Fenghua’s hammer summoned lightning and Dongfang Shuci’s fan raised a powerful wind.
• Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang resonated with the Divine Path Stele, restoring the realm’s laws and causing four stone platforms to emerge from the ground.
• A bone-chilling yin wind summoned ghost generals that targeted Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang as they performed their ritual.
• He Xuanning and the other cultivators rushed to protect the two Yang Clan cultivators, struggling to fight while weakened by the mountain’s pressure.

Fang Hanchuan joined the battle against the ghost generals, helping the young cultivators turn the tide as their corpses formed skeletal pillars on four platforms. Yang Xuanzhou realized the fighting was constructing the Western Divine Palace’s pillar, sent Dongfang Shuci back to the battlefield, and joined Han Fenghua in bearing Heaven-Supporting Mountain’s crushing weight.

• Fang Hanchuan used the Little Azure Light Flying Sword to protect the Yang Clan members and strike down approaching ghost generals.
• The four platforms drew in the fallen ghost generals and compressed their corpses into skeletal pillars.
• Yang Xuanzhou deduced that killing the ghost generals would build the Western pillar and help open the hidden trove.
• Yang Xuanzhou asked Dongfang Shuci to return to the battlefield, while he and Han Fenghua stayed to hold back Heaven-Supporting Mountain.
• Yang Xuanzhou gathered the power of his dragon body and beast spirits, and Han Fenghua activated Thunder Spirit Infusion to strengthen their efforts.

Han Fenghua pushed his thunder art to its limit while Yang Xuanzhou held up the colossal peak, buying time for the western pillars to be completed. Seeing Yang Xuanzhou gravely wounded, Han Fenghua regained his resolve as he prepared to unleash the thunder.

• Han Fenghua withdrew the lightning net and descended toward the undead creatures below.
• Han Fenghua invoked Numinous Firmament Inquiry into the Void and gathered thunder-spirit power in the clouds, suppressing it to increase its killing power.
• Han Fenghua endured the scorching strain of his thunder art until its power transformed into a fluid state.
• Han Fenghua saw Yang Xuanzhou bleeding as he supported the peak with his dragon body and the four western images.
• Han Fenghua's fighting spirit returned when he realized Yang Xuanzhou was risking his life to hold the peak.

Yang Xuanzhou and the cultivators completed the trial by stabilizing the mountain’s four supports, with Han Fenghua and Dongfang Shuci helping defeat the ghost generals. As the exhausted survivors gathered, Fang Hanchuan reconsidered the principles he had always upheld after witnessing their sacrifices.

• Han Fenghua called everyone into the wind formation and unleashed his stored thunder arts, while Dongfang Shuci swept the surviving cultivators into safety with her fan.
• The lightning pulverized the ghost generals, whose bones raised the western pillar and stabilized the mountain before the deadline.
• Yang Xuanzhou withdrew his dragon form and dharma manifestation, then nearly fell from exhaustion before Dongfang Shuci supported him and forced him to take a healing pill.
• Fang Hanchuan arrived with the scorched Han Fenghua, and Han Fenghua and Yang Xuanzhou laughed together about their injuries.
• Fang Hanchuan compared their courage with his own teachings and began to question the principles he had upheld.

The Mirror Immortal questioned Jun Qian about three immortal saplings whose Sea-Chasing Commands had found their owners, then judged the developments in Void Cang Ancient Land to be an unexpected complication. He sent Jun Qian a jade slip and letter, ordering closer attention to the ancient land and its growing tangle of fate.

• Jun Qian and his fellow disciple knelt before the Mirror Immortal and reported that three Sea-Chasing Commands had found their owners after three hundred and twenty years.
• The Mirror Immortal used his strange, afflicted hand to inspect Jun Qian and learned of the immortal saplings at Immortal Wood Fort, Pure Flower Terrace, and Void Cang Ancient Land.
• The Mirror Immortal asked which sapling Jun Qian believed could mature, and Jun Qian chose the Holy Maiden of Pure Flower Terrace.
• The Mirror Immortal said the developments at Void Cang Ancient Land were unexpected and gave Jun Qian a jade slip and handwritten letter, instructing him to watch the situation more closely.

Ni Yue and Jun Qian surveyed the thirteen true-world lands and discussed the immortal seedlings recognized by the Sea-Chasing Command. Jun Qian revealed that the Azure Waves Continent’s exceptionally talented seedling might have less chance of coming into her own, then produced a Tribulation Invitation Token to help them prune her.

• Ni Yue inspected the thirteen lands’ manifested phenomena, including the ordinary stone representing the Void Cang Ancient Land.
• Ni Yue asked Jun Qian about the Azure Waves Continent’s immortal seedling, and he said her Dao talent surpassed that of the other seedlings and some sect elders.
• Jun Qian explained that talent for cultivating the Dao did not guarantee that an immortal seedling would bear fruit, and that he and Ni Yue had been ordered to prune her.
• Jun Qian activated his jade slip and revealed a Tribulation Invitation Token, which Ni Yue said would make the pruning easier.

Ni Yue learned that she and Jun Qian had contracted Divine Ability Sickness through their past deeds, while Jun Qian planned to preserve a cultivator from the Void Cang Ancient Land as an immortal seedling and selectively cut off the region’s fortune. The chapter left them weighing the risks of interfering with a tribulation under their master’s watch.

• Ni Yue feared that she and Jun Qian would suffer the consequences of their past killings after hearing what Jun Qian had said.
• Jun Qian revealed the sickness spreading across his body and explained that they might use feathered ascension and immortal tribulation to eliminate its root.
• Ni Yue refused to purge the entire vein, and Jun Qian disclosed that he had concealed the truth from their master and intended to preserve the female cultivator from the Void Cang Ancient Land.
• Jun Qian proposed targeting a crucial point rather than carrying out a sweeping purge, hoping to nourish the immortal seedling while limiting their karmic debts.
• Ni Yue warned that manipulating tribulations in the Void Cang Ancient Land could fail, and Jun Qian said their master might already have made arrangements in the command banner.

Jun Qian and Ni Yue received the Thunder-Calling Envoys, who began preparing to summon a tribulation in the Void Cang Ancient Land. As the ritual took shape, someone above the Void Realm of Canglan Continent sensed something unusual.

• The Thunder-Calling Envoys saluted Jun Qian and Ni Yue as Void-Stepping True Lords, whose title carried status and protection from immortal fortune during ascension.
• One Thunder-Calling Envoy congratulated Ni Yue on her progress, and Jun Qian praised her and asked the envoys to look after her while she carried the Tribulation Dharma Command Banner.
• Jun Qian told the envoys that the tribulation would descend in the Void Cang Ancient Land and explained the Mirror Immortal's instructions to prune the immortal seedlings.
• The Thunder-Calling Envoys congratulated the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion on cultivating three more immortal seedlings, then began a ritual with Ni Yue to draw down heavenly thunder.
• Someone above the Void Realm of Canglan Continent sensed something unusual as the tribulation ritual began.

Nangong Jinghe and Zhuang Xuanji realized the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion might attack the Yang Clan and hurried to warn them. Nangong Jinghe joined forces with Luo Qianchou to find a way out of the Kunxu Battlefield and locate Yang Lingrui before the danger arrived.

• Zhuang Xuanji warned Nangong Jinghe that the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion might target the Yang Clan, but a strange creation treasure blocked his soul fragment from contacting them.
• Zhuang Xuanji taught Nangong Jinghe the Dao Academy’s Heaven-Human Resonance Technique so his soul fragment could reach Patriarch Qian Chou.
• Nangong Jinghe used the technique to establish contact with Luo Qianchou in the Kunxu Battlefield and told him about the threat to the Yang Clan.
• Luo Qianchou set aside the battlefield’s treasures and joined Nangong Jinghe in searching for an exit and Yang Lingrui.

Chen Yang and Yang Lingqing investigated Yang Lingqing's growing unease about the Kunxu Battlefield, but found no threat or overlooked detail. As they reached an impasse, Yao'er arrived, and Yang Lingqing suggested hearing her thoughts.

• Chen Yang checked the Stone Body Clone and questioned Yang Clan cultivators, but their reports revealed nothing unusual.
• Chen Yang reviewed the Yang Clan's progress on the Kunxu Battlefield, including Yang Lingrui's discovery of the shattered god and his pursuit of the Dao of Life and Death.
• Chen Yang and Yang Lingqing retraced their exploration three times but found no mortal threat or missed detail.
• A purple-gold figure emerged from the sea and approached the mountain, prompting Yang Lingqing to suggest that Yao'er join them.

Xiao Yao, Chen Yang, and Yang Lingqing investigated the threat to the Yang Clan and concluded that it likely came from a powerful foreign-domain cultivator targeting Yang Lingrui. Chen Yang asked Xu Cang to monitor the Upper Realm, leaving the group with an early-warning measure but no confirmation of who was behind the threat.

• Xiao Yao proposed that the incident might involve powerful cultivators from higher heavens rather than the Void Realm.
• Chen Yang reasoned that Yang Lingrui’s True Intent of the Way of Slaughter could have drawn the attention of a foreign-domain power.
• Chen Yang asked Xu Cang whether it could detect a foreign-domain cultivator acting against Canglan Continent, and Xu Cang said it could sense approaching foreign Dao techniques.
• Xu Cang activated its Immortal Intent to monitor Canglan Continent and agreed to report anything unusual to Chen Yang.
• Chen Yang, Yang Lingqing, and Xiao Yao concluded that the threat was most likely aimed at Yang Lingrui.

Yang Xuanzhou guarded Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang as they refined a Divine Path Stele fragment, while worrying that Upper Realm visitors might target the Yang Clan. Meanwhile, Nangong Jinghe and Luo Qianchou warned Chen Yang’s divine sense that the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion intended to attack the clan.

• Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang found a Divine Path Stele fragment and began refining it into their bloodlines while Yang Xuanzhou stood guard.
• Yang Xuanzhou worried that the Upper Realm visitors would target his family and resolved to protect his younger siblings, even if he had to break through at the cost of his cultivation foundation.
• Nangong Jinghe and Luo Qianchou found Yang Lingrui in the shattered layer of the Kunxu Battlefield, where Chen Yang’s Stone Body Clone noticed their arrival.
• Nangong Jinghe and Luo Qianchou greeted Chen Yang’s divine sense and explained that the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion intended to attack the Yang Clan.

Chen Yang praised Luo Qianchou for abandoning his former Treading Void cultivation to pursue immortality anew, then asked him to verify what Nangong Jinghe had said about the Heavenly Sea Domain. Luo explained the domain’s faction hierarchy and the requirements for promoting landed domains to realm gates.

• Chen Yang told Luo Qianchou he admired his resolve to start over and suggested they address each other as fellow Daoists.
• Luo Qianchou thanked Chen Yang and joked that Nangong Jinghe had been a benefactor who helped him begin cultivating anew.
• Chen Yang asked Luo Qianchou about the domains beyond the Void Realm and the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion.
• Luo Qianchou explained that the domain’s factions ranked as realm gates, landed domains, and star hosts, with the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion as a dominion realm gate.
• Luo Qianchou described how landed domains could be promoted based on their cultivators, while dominion realm gates required a genuine immortal to preside over them.

Chen Yang learned that the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion’s immortal seedlings faced either being consumed as refining material or surrendering their lives to become Immortal Masters, and he suspected Zhuang Xuanji was one of them. He sent Nangong Jinghe and Luo Qianchou to protect Yang Yuanhong while he guarded the illusion, vowing to settle his blood feud with the Sea Pavilion when he grew strong enough.

• Luo Qianchou guessed that Zhuang Xuanji had been chosen as the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion’s immortal seedling because of her talent.
• Nangong Jinghe explained that successful immortal seedlings were either consumed as refining material or became Immortal Masters bound to the Sea Pavilion.
• Chen Yang directed Nangong Jinghe and Luo Qianchou to leave Ling Rui undisturbed and help protect Yang Yuanhong.
• Nangong Jinghe and Luo Qianchou followed Chen Yang’s directions to the lower level, while Chen Yang’s Stone Body Clone wrapped the illusion in Black Kai.
• Chen Yang vowed to make the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion pay once he had built enough strength, and his immortal body hid Xiao Yao inside the stone body’s inner space.

Zhuang Xuanji brought Nangong Jinghe before the Void-Treading patriarchs as tribulation law descended toward Canglan. She offered compensation for taking Futuo and using Nangong Jinghe’s Galaxy Treasure Land, leaving the Confluence Faction Old Ancestor to inspect her jade slip.

• A black shadow appeared above the Yang Family Sacred Land, and Void-Treading patriarchs prepared to intercept the tribulation law before Sea Pavilion ordered them to withdraw.
• The patriarchs suspected the event involved Chen Yang’s Sea-Chasing Command and questioned the Dao Academy Old Ancestor, who suggested they ask Zhuang Xuanji directly.
• Zhuang Xuanji appeared with Nangong Jinghe, who explained that Futuo had been sent to comprehend the Dao in his Galaxy Treasure Land.
• The Confluence Faction Old Ancestor challenged Zhuang Xuanji for using Nangong Jinghe’s treasured cultivation site without proper compensation.
• Zhuang Xuanji presented a jade slip and said it settled both the compensation for taking Futuo and the rent for occupying the Galaxy Treasure Land.

Zhuang Xuanji gave the Old Devil Ancestor and the Confluence Faction Old Ancestor gifts in exchange for staying out of the coming tribulation, which the Sea Pavilion and Lightning Bureau had directed at a newly risen clan because of her. As the heavenly lightning struck the Azure Waves Continent, Xu Cang weakened it and an unknown force activated the Sky Curtain’s isolation formation, revealing Zhuang Xuanji’s hidden arrangement.

• The Old Devil Ancestor accepted Zhuang Xuanji’s fragment of immortal art and agreed not to interfere, while offering help with other matters within his power.
• Zhuang Xuanji told the Confluence Faction Old Ancestor that the Sea Pavilion and Lightning Bureau’s tribulation was meant to speed her cultivation, and that a recently risen great clan would suffer because of her.
• The Dao Academy Ancestor warned the others to take cover, and the four Treading Void cultivators dispersed before the heavenly lightning arrived.
• Xu Cang used Immortal Intent to weaken the lightning at the Azure Waves Continent’s first Sky Curtain checkpoint, easing the pressure on Chen Yang, the Yang Clan, and the others.
• An unknown force activated the Sky Curtain’s isolation formation, forming a vortex that churned the heavenly lightning and revealed Zhuang Xuanji’s arrangement.

After the Void Realm Sky Curtain Grand Formation vanished, a massive lightning tribulation poured into Canglan Continent, alarming cultivators across the region. Venerable Dongxu realized the tribulation was punishing someone for learning a forbidden heavenly secret and prepared to protect Yantian Palace, while Venerable Xuanwei and two others faced the greater storm near Kunxu Secret Realm.

• The tribulation clouds spread over the northern lands, forcing cultivators to retreat as the thunder shook Canglan Continent.
• Qingmingzi told Venerable Dongxu that the tribulations’ paths were visible but blocked from deduction by a powerful force, unlike the Yang Clan’s past situation.
• Venerable Dongxu sent Qingmingzi to guard Jiang Yinkong after a patch of tribulation clouds appeared above Yantian Palace.
• Venerable Dongxu shielded Yantian Palace and nearby forces with Zhen Xuan, then raised a celestial tome Dharma image to confront the tribulation.
• Venerable Xuanwei and two other high-level Dongxuan cultivators prepared to face the far greater tribulation outside Kunxu Secret Realm.