Recaps

Chen Huai'an challenged the Azure Dragon Clan’s lax cultivation and defeated two of its young cultivators with a mysterious water art. Cang Yu and Cang Xun watched as the pair were trapped and forced to reveal their original Azure Dragon forms.

• Chen Huai'an insulted the Azure Dragon Clan’s cultivation standards, provoking two young cultivators to attack him.
• Cang Yu and Cang Xun decided to watch the fight rather than intervene.
• Chen Huai'an used swirling water curtains to drain the force from the attackers’ punches and weaken their bodies.
• Chen Huai'an raised a massive wave that trapped both cultivators in a water prison.
• Cang Yu and Cang Xun sensed that Chen Huai'an’s water art had a living quality, while the tightening pressure forced the two captives to abandon their transformed forms.

Cang Yu and Cang Xun, convinced by the immortal dream, became obsessed with taking the Northwest Yang Clan’s Immortal Treasures while unknowingly suffering harm from the dream’s techniques. Chen Huai'an and Xiao Yao followed them, weighing whether they could still be turned back, as the group reached a dangerous lightning storm on the way to a secluded place.

• Cang Yu and Cang Xun returned the Dao technique from their dream to the Azure Dragon Clan, where it helped the clan’s ancestors and strengthened their belief in the immortal.
• The dream’s influence altered Cang Yu and Cang Xun’s priorities, making them covet the Yang Clan’s Immortal Treasures and overlook the danger to their clan.
• Cang Yu and Cang Xun unknowingly lost vitality whenever they cultivated or circulated the so-called immortal art.
• Chen Huai'an and Xiao Yao followed the two geniuses and considered helping them if they could still be brought back from their obsession.
• Cang Xun led the group to the Land of Falling Lightning, explaining that they could cross it to reach a secluded treasure ground or take a longer detour.

Cang Yu and Cang Xun discussed their plans to obtain the Yang Clan's Immortal Treasure, while Chen Huai'an and Xiao Yao entered the lightning storm region. Xiao Yao emerged unharmed, and Shenwu asked the Azure Dragon Clan cultivators to take him to another place to rest.

• Cang Yu and Cang Xun discussed how Chen Huai'an's Innate Dragon Body might connect him to the Northwest's peak cultivator and planned to pursue the Yang Clan's Immortal Treasure after that cultivator ascended.
• Chen Huai'an called Xiao Yao into the lightning storm region after demonstrating his own ability to withstand its lightning.
• Xiao Yao flew into the storm without circulating her true essence and was struck by three bolts of lightning.
• The Azure Dragon Clan cultivators were astonished when Xiao Yao remained unharmed and speculated that she was a body cultivator.
• Shenwu declined to enter the storm and asked the Azure Dragon Clan cultivators to take him to the other place they had prepared.

Shenwu trapped Azure Dragon Clan cultivators inside the Great Urn Daoist Ground and brought the four guards who tried to intervene into it as well. He entered in person and told them he only wanted more people to talk with.

• Shenwu used his Daoist arts to bring several young Azure Dragon cultivators into the Great Urn Daoist Ground.
• The four True Person-level guards failed to open the Daoist Ground and decided to report the incident and wait for Cang Yu and Cang Xun.
• The guards discovered their communication artifacts could not transmit messages, and Shenwu appeared above them.
• Shenwu swiftly pressed the four guards into the Daoist Ground, then confirmed no Azure Dragon Clan cultivators remained outside.
• Shenwu's true body appeared inside the Daoist Ground, surprising the four guards, and he said he had brought them there to talk.

Shenwu showed the Azure Dragon Clan evidence that the supposed immortal relics came from the same source as their treasures, then warned them that the arts could bring ruin. He began explaining the Immortal Arts Calamity with a cover story that blamed the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord and his Soul-Returning Calamity.

• Shenwu presented two relics whose aura and cultivation lineage matched the Azure Dragon Clan's treasures and teachings.
• The Azure Dragon Clan elders examined the relics and asked how they had been found; Shenwu said one came from the Danyuan Secret Realm and the other from a subordinate sect's recruitment ceremony.
• Shenwu explained that the relics' finders had visited the Far North when the Kunxu Secret Realm opened and later discovered hidden places after the calamity.
• Shenwu revealed that the alchemy cultivator had died, while the young cultivator who received the manual had suffered severe mental damage from its corrupt art.
• The Azure Dragon Clan elders asked Shenwu to explain the danger, and he began a fabricated account tracing the Immortal Arts Calamity to the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord's Soul-Returning Calamity.

Shenwu convinced the Azure Dragon Clan cultivators that the Immortal Treasures and wicked arts came from a dangerous ancient cultivator consciousness, concealing the New Heaven Grand Plan. The clan learned that its ancestors and prodigies were in danger, and Shenwu reassured them that the ancestors might be saved while Cang Yu and Cang Xun’s fate remained uncertain.

• Shenwu explained the origins and dangers of the Immortal Treasures and wicked arts, and the Azure Dragon Clan cultivators believed him.
• The oldest Azure Dragon Clan cultivator admitted that Cang Yu and Cang Xun had lured Shenwu and the other Yang Clan cultivators into the Great Urn Daoist Ground, while other Yang Clan cultivators accompanied them into altered perilous places.
• Shenwu said Yang Yuanhong and the Absolute Void Sword Immortal could protect the Azure Dragon Clan’s ancestors, and he described Yang Yuanhong’s treasure for dispelling ancient cultivator consciousness.
• The Azure Dragon Clan cultivators thanked Shenwu and asked whether Cang Yu and Cang Xun could be saved.
• Shenwu said the Yang Clan’s Young Master and Young Lady would try to save Cang Yu and Cang Xun, but their lives and Dao paths depended on fate.

Chen Huai'an tried to warn Cang Yu that the dream teachings he trusted were suspicious, but Cang Yu dismissed him and demanded that he submit. Chen Huai'an then revealed overwhelming power and attacked, leaving Cang Yu shocked by his hidden strength.

• Cang Yu assumed his Azure Dragon true form and told Chen Huai'an that his clan's immortal teachings surpassed the Yang Clan's relics, offering to spare him if he submitted.
• Chen Huai'an questioned whether Cang Yu had noticed anything strange about the dream and the person who taught him.
• Cang Yu dismissed Chen Huai'an as a Spirit Communion Lower Cultivator and insisted that his clan had verified the immortal arts.
• Chen Huai'an said Cang Yu had misunderstood the meaning of Lower Cultivator and unleashed a storm of wind and rain.
• Cang Yu recognized that Chen Huai'an had concealed strength worthy of the Golden Roll's front page, but continued casting Dao arts.

Cang Yu recognized Chen Huai'an's connection to the powerful lineage behind the Yang Clan and became more determined to seize its Immortal Treasure. Chen Huai'an overwhelmed him with a renewed attack, leaving Cang Yu trapped and struggling to breathe.

• Cang Yu saw Chen Huai'an's true dragon form and concluded that he was connected to the northwest peak cultivator behind the Yang Clan.
• Cang Yu reasoned that the Yang Clan's rise depended on an Immortal Treasure and resolved to obtain it to help him withstand future tribulations.
• Cang Yu sensed an Immortal Treasure's aura from Chen Huai'an and decided that the dragon body was bolstered by its power.
• Chen Huai'an summoned storms and three dragon-body incarnations to seal off Cang Yu's escape routes.
• Chen Huai'an's attack suppressed Cang Yu's spiritual essence and left him unable to move, gradually suffocating.

Chen Huai'an was trapped by Cang Yu's Heaven-and-Earth Refining Formation as Cang Yu used an evil immortal art fueled by his lifespan and vitality. Chen Huai'an questioned whether the art would consume Cang Yu before he attained the Dao, but the flames suppressed Cang Yu's doubts, and Cang Yu prepared to kill him.

• Cang Yu drew Chen Huai'an toward the crimson sun and bound his dragon body with earthen chains linked to the depths of the earth.
• Cang Yu revealed that his evil art fueled the crimson flames with his lifespan and vitality, then urged Chen Huai'an to surrender.
• Chen Huai'an challenged Cang Yu to consider whether the art would consume his life before he attained the Dao.
• Chen Yang sensed Cang Yu still had some independent consciousness and instructed Chen Huai'an to spare his life.
• The evil flames suppressed Cang Yu's doubts, and he raged that Chen Huai'an would die before merging into countless phantoms throughout the small world.

Chen Huai'an’s terrifying dharma body caused Cang Yu to faint, and the chapter explained how Chen Huai'an’s blood-soaked Dao fate differed from Xiao Yao’s fortune-filled path. Chen Yang had abandoned the orthodox True Martial Imperishable Glazed Body for Chen Huai'an and created a harsh cultivation method to help him repay his karmic debts.

• Cang Yu saw Chen Huai'an’s resentment-filled dharma body and fainted from the spiritual shock.
• The chapter contrasted Xiao Yao’s fate, which let her gather the Changlan Continent’s blessings, with Chen Huai'an’s fate, burdened by the blood debts of the Eastern Wilderness.
• Chen Yang learned from Xu Cang that Chen Huai'an would face calamities if he cultivated the True Martial Imperishable Glazed Body without first dissolving his karmic debts through suffering.
• Chen Yang consulted the Azure Waves deities Blood Sun, Wu Chang, and Liuli, then created the Thousand Grievances, Ten Thousand Sins, Corpse-Bone Aspect for Chen Huai'an.

Chen Yang had forged a painful Harmonization Dao divine ability for Chen Huai'an to protect his path to ascension and free him from inherited karmic burdens. After Chen Huai'an overcame the technique’s effects and extracted a sinister fire from Cang Yu, he reported that Cang Yu had received a fire Dao method from the Sea Pavilion True Lord; Chen Yang confirmed that Cang Xun had received a powerful metal Dao method.

• Chen Yang reflected that Chen Huai'an needed the painful <Thousand Grievances, Ten Thousand Sins, Corpse-Bone Aspect> to dispel resentful influences and preserve his chance to ascend.
• Chen Huai'an dispelled his Dharma body, extracted a sinister fire from the unconscious Cang Yu, and suppressed it.
• Chen Huai'an examined the sinister fire and deduced that the Sea Pavilion True Lord had used a fire Dao method to influence Cang Yu through the Five Elements.
• Chen Huai'an sent his findings to Chen Yang, who praised his deduction and confirmed that Cang Xun had received a fierce metal Dao method.
• Chen Huai'an felt reassured after learning that Xiao Yao was safe.

Chen Huai'an and Xiao Yao exploited the Azure Dragon Clan’s distraction to infiltrate a hidden site and set out to clear the clan grounds of threats tied to the evil art. Meanwhile, the clan’s cultivators witnessed Yang Lingrui overpower four Mystic Insight Venerables with a single verdict and were left afraid to oppose him.

• Chen Huai'an and Xiao Yao swiftly infiltrated an ancient tower and eliminated the hidden threat of the evil art without alerting its guards.
• Chen Huai'an and Xiao Yao split up to search for and destroy the remaining hidden threats while the Azure Dragon Clan’s defenses were weakened.
• Azure Dragon Clan cultivators gathered outside the Forbidden Ground’s formation and spotted their ancestors facing the Absolute Void Sword Immortal, the Vaulting Dragon Lord, and a masked white-robed figure.
• The clan cultivators identified the masked figure as Yang Lingrui, the Azure Waves Arbiter, but were baffled by how he had entered the Forbidden Ground unnoticed.
• Yang Lingrui’s verdict stripped four Azure Dragon Clan Mystic Insight Venerables of their powers and unraveled their arts, leaving the clan’s True Intent Cultivators too intimidated to act.

After Yang Lingrui’s decree stripped the evil art from the four Azure Dragon Ancestors, its backlash badly wounded them but also purged most of its poison, saving their Dao paths and the Azure Dragon Clan. Enraged and unaware of the danger the art posed, the ancestors turned against the Yang Clan, and Ye Chenfeng revealed a treasure that left the Azure Dragon cultivators trembling.

• The evil art’s backlash injured the four Azure Dragon Ancestors and caused their cultivation to regress, while expelling most of its lingering poison.
• Ye Chenfeng stood between the furious ancestors and Yang Lingrui’s soul body, asking them to hear him out.
• The Azure Dragon Ancestors accused Ye Chenfeng and the Yang Clan of betraying their trust, and demanded that Yang Lingrui and the Yang Clan cultivators remain and pay for their actions.
• Ye Chenfeng brought out a treasure box and placed it before Yang Lingrui’s soul body.
• Yang Lingrui’s soul body resonated with the box and opened it, making every Azure Dragon cultivator in the Forbidden Ground tremble at the revealed object’s aura.

Yang Lingrui and Ye Chenfeng used the Slaughter Dao True Mystery to make the four Azure Dragon ancestors back down by reminding them of their past defeat and confinement by Zhuang Xuanji. The chapter then revealed the risks and trust required for Yang Lingrui to hide within Yang Yuanhong’s sea of consciousness.

• Ye Chenfeng warned the four Azure Dragon ancestors as Yang Lingrui strengthened his connection to the Slaughter Dao True Mystery.
• The ancestors recalled how Zhuang Xuanji had subdued them and how their clan had been confined for centuries.
• The four ancestors withdrew their True Mysteries, and Yang Lingrui told Yang Yuanhong to withdraw his true essence.
• Yang Lingrui’s presence was revealed to have been hidden inside Yang Yuanhong’s sea of consciousness so the clan could not detect him.
• The chapter explained that hosting another person’s soul exposed Yang Yuanhong to mental harm and revealed his deepest secrets.

After Daozhen Xuan's intervention, Ye Chenfeng and Yang Lingrui explained how the Azure Dragon Clan's supposed Immortal Treasures and immortal arts were harming their cultivators. The clan discovered the danger, apologized to Yang Lingrui, and the confrontation ended with mutual respect.

• The Azure Dragon Clan's Great Venerable agreed to hold off on attacking the Yang Clan but demanded an explanation from Ye Chenfeng and Yang Lingrui.
• Ye Chenfeng promised the Azure Dragon Clan a satisfactory answer, and Yang Lingrui recounted Shenwu's account of the evil arts.
• Yang Lingrui guided the Azure Dragon Clan's patriarchs and higher-ups in examining themselves, revealing that the Immortal Treasures were damaging their souls and shortening their lifespans.
• The Azure Dragon Clan's Great Venerable apologized to Yang Lingrui as the Fate Official and acknowledged the power of his Sever Karma decree.
• The remaining patriarchs and cultivators apologized and thanked Yang Lingrui, who said the resolved misunderstanding had helped them avoid disaster.

Blood Sun Venerable God refined essence blood aura from the Immortal Treasure, confirming that a Sea Pavilion True Lord had used his own essence blood to sustain methods imposed on Azure Waves. Chen Yang asked whether the discovery could help them locate other objects affected by Upper Realm cultivators’ methods.

• Blood Sun Venerable God examined the Immortal Treasure and used the Blood Refining Divine Technique on it while the Azure Waves gods watched.
• Blood Sun Venerable God refined a wisp of essence blood aura and presented it to Chen Yang.
• Chen Yang probed the aura and realized a Sea Pavilion True Lord had sacrificed essence blood to extend the influence of his methods.
• Chen Yang asked Blood Sun Venerable God whether the essence blood could lead them to other objects carrying Upper Realm cultivators’ methods.

Chen Yang and the Azure Waves Divine Host learned that Sea Pavilion True Lord had killed an ancient god who survived the calamity that destroyed the Divine Dao. The god’s final words strengthened Chen Yang’s resolve to rescue surviving gods in the Upper Realm, but he steadied himself and chose patience over rushing ahead.

• Chen Yang realized the dead god had cultivated the divine ability Yingxu and had been refined by Sea Pavilion True Lord.
• Frost Flower Venerable God investigated the god and explained that he had qualified to advance to Lower God but could not master his art without the Great Dao.
• The Azure Waves gods mourned the god and felt gratitude toward Chen Yang for saving them from a similar fate.
• Chen Yang considered how vulnerable the scattered Divine Path creatures were to Upper Realm forces seeking Creation Origin.
• Chen Yang yearned to ascend and rescue them, then calmed himself and decided not to let impatience disrupt his plans.

Chen Yang visited Yang Yuanzhen as she approached Dao Entry and examined her cultivation. Her breakthrough drew the Yang Clan’s attention, while memories of past losses deepened Chen Yang’s guilt toward Yang Yuanhong.

• Chen Yang heard that Yuan Zhen had succeeded and traveled to Shenshuo Peak.
• Yang Lingrui and Yun Xiwu greeted Chen Yang while guarding Yang Yuanzhen as she cultivated.
• Chen Yang examined Yang Yuanzhen through the crystal coating around her body.
• Chen Yang recalled how Yang Yuanhong had entered the Dao at a young age after receiving a Spirit Pearl.
• Chen Yang remembered Yang Linghu and Yang Xuanzhou’s deaths and felt guilty toward Yang Yuanhong.

After breaking through to the Mystic Insight Realm, Chen Yang comforted Dongfang Yingcai by telling her how bravely Yang Xuanzhou had died, then visited Yun Xiwu and found peace in Yang Yuanzhen’s extraordinary gifts. He left the chapter calmer, with a Spirit Pearl beginning to take the form of a jade blade inside the unborn child.

• Chen Yang visited the pregnant Dongfang Yingcai and tried to protect Yang Xuancang, but no Spirit Pearl entered the unborn child.
• Dongfang Yingcai asked whether Yang Xuanzhou had been brave, and Chen Yang told her how he had protected his younger siblings and faced danger.
• Chen Yang brought Wu Tong to Longyin Peak to care for Dongfang Yingcai, then left grieving and doubting the meaning of his Dao.
• Chen Yang visited Yun Xiwu on Shenshuo Peak and sensed Yang Yuanzhen’s extraordinary natural gifts.
• A Spirit Pearl entered Yang Yuanzhen and began refining into the shape of a jade blade, calming Chen Yang’s troubled mind.

Chen Yang learned that Yang Yuanzhen cultivated the Spirit-Origin Slaughter Dao, which seemed to fall outside the Azure Waves Great Dao, and considered whether it was a foreign art. After reassuring her parents that he would not favor one Dao over another, he confirmed through Xu Cang that Yang Yuanzhen was a native of Canglan Continent and an extraordinarily rare natural mutation.

• Yang Lingrui told Chen Yang that Yang Yuanzhen's cultivation followed the Spirit-Origin Slaughter Dao, which might be a foreign art.
• Yun Xiwu described how she had witnessed Yang Yuanzhen's growth and mind from birth and insisted she was truly her and Yang Lingrui's daughter.
• Chen Yang promised Yang Lingrui and Yun Xiwu that he would not favor one Dao Path over another for Yang Yuanzhen.
• Chen Yang consulted Xu Cang and learned that Yang Yuanzhen was neither a reincarnated Upper Cultivator nor a creation of an Upper Realm art.
• Xu Cang's analysis led Chen Yang to conclude that Yang Yuanzhen was a uniquely rare mutation born within the Azure Waves Great Dao.

Carefree True Immortal and Zhang Minghe watched the changes in Canglan Continent through a small pool and discussed the extraordinary person emerging in Heavenly Sea. Carefree True Immortal explained that his immortal die had guided him to choose Void Cang Ancient Land, and Zhang Minghe began pondering what lay behind its success.

• Zhang Minghe noticed a tiny, bright speck appear in the pool and asked Carefree True Immortal whether it was an auspicious omen.
• Carefree True Immortal said he had only foreseen that an extraordinary person might emerge in Heavenly Sea, not when or where.
• Zhang Minghe asked why Carefree True Immortal had chosen Void Cang Ancient Land, and he revealed that he had relied on his die-shaped immortal artifact.
• Zhang Minghe complained that the die had repeatedly led her into danger, while Carefree True Immortal insisted that its guidance was more than luck.
• Carefree True Immortal urged Zhang Minghe to consider the underlying order behind the die's choice, and she closed her eyes to ponder it.

Carefree True Immortal explained the deeper meaning behind Zhang Minghe’s experiences with his immortal dice and reflected on the danger hidden beneath her exceptionally smooth cultivation. He had foreseen her path ending abruptly, but could not directly change her fate.

• Zhang Minghe reflected on Carefree True Immortal’s words and the gap between their understanding of the Great Dao.
• Zhang Minghe recalled how the immortal dice repeatedly led her into danger, prompting her to return it to Carefree True Immortal.
• The chapter recounted how Zhang Minghe, once a three-colored dragonfish, received intelligence, became Carefree True Immortal’s disciple, and advanced through cultivation with extraordinary ease.
• Carefree True Immortal worried that Zhang Minghe’s immense fortune and flawless progress left her unable to bear the blessings or withstand future trials.
• Carefree True Immortal performed a rite and saw a vision of Zhang Minghe’s path ending abruptly and a fish being carved up and eaten, but he could not alter her fate.

Yang Yuanzhen stabilized her Dao Initiation at the Third Level of Qi Gathering as the Azure Dragon Clan's evil arts were eradicated and Cang Yu recovered. After the clan was granted permission to return to Azure Waves in stages, Yang Yuanhong planned to use the clan's ancestral bloodline grounds to improve Yang Xuancang's prospects for Dao Initiation.

• Yang Yuanzhen completed her Dao Initiation at the Third Level of Qi Gathering and moved to Shenlin Peak, while Yang Lingrui entered Chen Yang's cave-heaven to study the Life-and-Death Method with Frost Flower Venerable God.
• Ye Chenfeng and Yang Yuanhong helped remove the evil arts from the Azure Dragon Clan Lands, and Yang Lingrui's Slaughter Dao Judgment Edict destroyed the remnants.
• Cang Yu awoke after Yang Yuanhong and the others treated him, thanked Chen Huai'an, and vowed to become his disciple once he reached the True Intent Realm.
• Chen Yang secretly altered Cang Yu's memories to conceal the Dao Fusion divine art, and a month later the Dao Academy permitted the Azure Dragon Clan to return to Azure Waves in stages.
• Yang Yuanhong and Shenwu stayed in the Azure Dragon Clan Lands, and Yang Yuanhong intended to use the clan's ancestral bloodline grounds to seek a Dao Initiation opportunity for Yang Xuancang.

Bai Di and the New Heaven leaders stayed wary as they used the Yang Clan’s fabricated Evil Art story to keep the Upper Cultivators focused elsewhere. Two years later, with the Great Five Elements Secret Realm about to open, the Northwest He Family arrived at Miaomu Immortal Mansion.

• Bai Di and the other leaders prepared for the Upper Cultivators to uncover the New Heaven Project and for the conflict to grow more dangerous.
• The New Heaven leaders relied on Chen Yang and the Yang Clan’s fabricated Ancient Cultivator Evil Art story to conceal their plans while they prepared their next moves.
• Two years passed, and the Great Five Elements Secret Realm’s opening drew attention back to the Five Directions Immortal Mansion.
• At Miaomu Immortal Mansion, an inner disciple reported to Steward Yang that the Northwest He Family’s immortal vessel had reached the mansion’s cloud terrace.

He Shenglai and He Shuping visited the Mystic Ancient Tree, where a Miaomu Immortal Mansion disciple explained the tree’s inheritance and the Mansion’s decline. He Shuping realized Lingxiao Dao Academy had likely collected many of the Mansion’s scattered arts, while the chapter left the Academy’s Six Sons established as an overwhelming force in their era.

• Yang Yuanling appeared as a twig swayed, and the Immortal Mansion disciple brought He Shenglai and He Shuping into the Mystic Ancient Tree.
• The disciple explained that the tree was the Miaomu Immortal Mansion’s inheritance ground and described the Mansion’s former glory and present condition.
• He Shuping asked why the Mansion had failed to reclaim its scattered inheritances, and the disciple said a stronger force had gathered most of them first.
• He Shuping inferred that Lingxiao Dao Academy had taken the inheritances, and He Shenglai transmitted something to her before she stopped questioning the disciple.
• The chapter recounted how the Six Sons of Lingxiao had dominated the Central Region while still in the True Intent Realm.