Recaps

He Shuping prepared to discuss the Dao with Yuan Ning’s Immortal Estate messenger, while He Shenglai warned her that he would be difficult to defeat. The chapter explained how Yang Lingshu’s Nascent Soul Truth-Seeking Method could strengthen its disciples and inspire Chen Yang’s research into Dao Integration methods, then left the four disciples facing future trials before they could enter Chengzuo Peak.

• He Shenglai warned He Shuping that Yuan Ning’s Immortal Estate messenger was an outstanding cultivator and that she should prepare for defeat.
• He Shuping said she sought to verify her cultivation rather than win, and circulated the condensed spiritual power in her qi reservoir.
• The chapter explained that Yang Lingshu’s Nascent Soul Truth-Seeking Method had been developed with Chen Yang’s guidance and trained its disciples to form a powerful false core.
• Chen Yang considered the method a promising, more accessible path for developing Dao Integration methods that could benefit more Yang Clan cultivators.
• Chen Yang planned individual assessments and trials for Yang Lingshu’s four disciples before they broke through to the Origin Condensation Realm, with success earning them an audience with the Yang Clan Patriarch and entry to Chengzuo Peak.

Yang Yuanling sensed He and Xiao Shuping approaching her cave dwelling at Miaomu Immortal Mansion and invited them inside. Her arrival had drawn widespread attention, as powers across Azure Waves sought information about her family’s cultivation and Yang Lingshu’s Nascent Soul Truth-Seeking Method.

• Yang Yuanling sensed He and Xiao Shuping through her Wood Dao Dharma Aspect and opened her cave dwelling to welcome them.
• Yang Yuanling had joined Miaomu Immortal Mansion as a nominal steward after the Pill Origin Ceremony.
• Yang Lingshu’s achievement of the True Intent Realm made Yang Yuanling and Yang Yuanzhao targets of close scrutiny from powers across Azure Waves.
• Cultivators sought to learn whether others could cultivate Yang Lingshu’s Nascent Soul Truth-Seeking Method, but found no useful information about his children’s Dao arts.
• Yang Yuanling’s arrival prompted daily visits from cultivators seeking an audience with her.

He Shenglai decided not to interfere with the demonic cultivators’ suspicious movements before the Five Elements Secret Realm operation, leaving the New Heaven cultivators entering the realm to respond. He encouraged Yang Yuanling and reaffirmed his resolve to fight for the New Heaven Grand Plan.

• He Shenglai considered detaining the demonic cultivators but decided it would reveal too much about the New Heaven Project.
• He concluded that Yang Yuanling, Chen Huai'an, Lin Qiao, and the other New Heaven cultivators entering the Five Elements Secret Realm would have to handle the threat inside.
• He Shenglai warned Yang Yuanling that the operation would be dangerous because the Upper Cultivators were focused on the Yang Clan.
• Yang Yuanling said that serving the New Heaven Grand Plan was her duty and that senior cultivators like He Shenglai would bear greater burdens later.
• He Shenglai took heart from the Yang Clan’s younger generation and resolved to help win a new heaven for Azure Waves’ living beings.

Lin Qiao and Ming Fang investigated a Great Wind Plain Settlement cultivator whom they suspected had been compromised by the Upper Realm Cultivators. Their discussion was interrupted by a visitor bearing a Yang Clan token, which Chen Yang's Stone Body Clone verified as genuine.

• Ming Fang identified the middle-aged cultivator as a former Great Wind Plain Settlement talent who had narrowly missed the Heavenly Talent Ranking.
• Lin Qiao suspected the Upper Cultivators had staged the cultivator's rescue of the Taishi Family's young master to gain access to the Five Elements Secret Realm.
• Lin Qiao decided not to watch the cultivator closely, reasoning that the Upper Cultivators would approach the Yang Clan once they entered the Earth Dao Secret Realm.
• An Immortal Estate cultivator brought Ming Fang a token from a rogue cultivator who claimed to have known the Yang Clan years earlier.
• Chen Yang's Stone Body Clone examined the earthen token and found that its aura came from the Yang Family Sacred Land.

Lin Qiao and Ming Fang learned that Bai Yu was Bai Di’s daughter and understood why the Devil Master had entrusted her with leading the Demonic Path cultivators in the Immortal Abode Secret Realm. Lin Qiao welcomed the chance to work with Bai Yu, recognizing her ties to the Yang Clan and the Northwest of Azure Waves.

• Lin Qiao and Ming Fang realized Bai Yu was the daughter of Devil Master Bai Di.
• The chapter recounted how Upper Realm Cultivator Descent damaged Bai Di’s Dao Foundation and changed his attitude toward his surviving children.
• After the New Heaven Grand Plan was established, Bai Di began nurturing his descendants and brought talented Bai Yu into the New Heaven Project.
• Bai Di entrusted Bai Yu with leading the Demonic Path side of the joint venture in the Immortal Abode Secret Realm.
• Lin Qiao told Bai Yu that she understood her ties to the Yang Clan and welcomed working with her.

Lin Qiao learned that only six Vast Sea cultivators, including Bai Yu and Xu Zheng, knew about the New Heaven Project and would cooperate with it. Bai Yu explained how the Demon Soil had infiltrated the Central Region to hide the project’s future actions, and the chapter left Lin Qiao and Ming Fang weighing the scale of Bai Di’s scheme.

• Xu Zheng handed the intelligence report to Ming Fang, who passed it to Lin Qiao after testing Xu Zheng’s strength with Buddhist light.
• Bai Yu asked Xu Zheng to assess Ming Fang, and Xu Zheng said he could kill him but would find it difficult to handle him without a killing move.
• Lin Qiao read the report and learned that only six Vast Sea cultivators, including Bai Yu and Xu Zheng, knew about the New Heaven Project and would cooperate with it.
• Bai Yu explained that the other Demon Soil cultivators had been sent to infiltrate the Central Region without learning the project’s secret.
• Bai Yu described how Bai Di had planned for the infiltrators to serve as smokescreens when New Heaven cultivators from both paths acted together.

Bai Yu and Lin Qiao discussed Lin Qiao’s friendship with Ming Fang while the group prepared to enter the Secret Realm. Ming Fang and Xu Zheng tested their strength in a training ground, and their clash ended with both displaying powerful Dao arts.

• Lin Qiao arranged an isolated training ground so the four companions could assess each other’s abilities.
• Bai Yu asked Lin Qiao about her connection to Kudhan Temple, and Lin Qiao explained that Ming Fang stayed near her to study Buddhist Dharma and seek a breakthrough.
• Ming Fang and Xu Zheng rose into the air to test their strength while Bai Yu and Lin Qiao watched.
• Xu Zheng attacked with a heavy saber strike, and Ming Fang formed an Adamantine Indestructibility Body using his Earth Dao arts.
• Ming Fang’s golden defense collided with Xu Zheng’s blade radiance, violently shaking the training ground.

Lin Qiao and Bai Yu secretly enhanced Ming Fang and Xu Zheng during their duel, turning the fight into a contest between the two prodigies. Xu Zheng used spatial Daoist Magic to bypass Ming Fang’s defenses and brought a demonic blade within striking distance, leaving Ming Fang to brace for the attack.

• Lin Qiao strengthened Ming Fang with an earth-element seal, while Bai Yu empowered Xu Zheng with a red lotus spell that intensified his blade.
• Xu Zheng’s boosted blade broke through Ming Fang’s golden Buddhist light, but the earthen Buddha manifestation pinned his sword and restored the deadlock.
• Lin Qiao gave the earthen Buddha two additional arms, while Bai Yu made Xu Zheng appear to be struck down in a burst of blood mist.
• Xu Zheng reappeared above Ming Fang inside a red lotus and used spatial Daoist Magic to make his blade pass through the earthen Buddha’s obstruction.
• Ming Fang recognized the spatial technique, gathered his spiritual essence, and prepared to withstand Xu Zheng’s incoming strike.

After tensions eased between the two groups, the New Heaven Project finalized its teams for the Five Elements Secret Realm operation and began checking the five Immortal Estates for enemy infiltration. Their first search found no trace of an Upper Cultivator’s spellwork at Miaomu Immortal Mansion, though Chen Yang could not tell whether the enemy had avoided it or hidden more carefully.

• Lin Qiao and Bai Yu began speaking more often in private, and Xu Zheng sought out Ming Fang to discuss their sparring match.
• The New Heaven Project assigned Chen Huai'an, Yang Yuanling, Lin Qiao, Ning Jiu, and Chi Tian to lead operations in the Secret Realms, while Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang were approved to enter the Fire Dao Secret Realm.
• Mo Yunzhou and four True Intent Cultivators were tasked with guarding the five Immortal Estates and investigating potential infiltration.
• New Heaven cultivators used Yang Clan stone tokens to locate the four people controlled by Ascendant Wills across the Immortal Estates.
• Chen Yang sensed no Ascendant Will aura at Miaomu Immortal Mansion, leaving him unsure whether the enemy had skipped the Wood Dao Secret Realm or concealed its presence.

The third group entered the Immortal Abode Secret Realm, including Yun Xifeng and cultivators from the Fuyao Sect. A Xuanyuan Clan cultivator became inexplicably interested in Yun Xifeng, while his connection to Xuanyuan Jun revealed that Jun had loyal clansmen acting for him without Ascendant Wills.

• The third group prepared to enter the Secret Realm, whose expanded capacity came from the Five Directions Immortal Mansion’s worship of the Blood Sun Venerable God and Chen Yang’s divine power.
• A Xuanyuan Clan cultivator approached the Fuyao Sect group and asked why the young Yun Xifeng was entering the Secret Realm.
• A Fuyao Sect woman praised Yun Xifeng’s talent but withheld details about her identity, and the Xuanyuan Clan cultivator apologized and withdrew.
• The Xuanyuan Clan cultivator privately wondered why Yun Xifeng drew his attention despite her unremarkable appearance and presence.
• The narrative revealed that the cultivator had once served Xuanyuan Jun and that Jun had sent loyal Xuanyuan Clan members who were not possessed by Ascendant Wills.

Chen Yang and Yang Yuanzhen determined that Dust-Leaving had sensed an anomaly on a Xuanyuan Clan cultivator despite him carrying no Upper Cultivator Will. Chen Yang alerted Dark Underworld Venerable to monitor the Xuanyuan Clan, but remained puzzled by Dust-Leaving’s ability to pierce the Sea Pavilion True Lord’s concealment.

• Chen Yang examined Dust-Leaving’s reaction and asked Yang Yuanzhen whether the Xuanyuan Clan cultivator carried an Upper Cultivator Will.
• Yang Yuanzhen reported that Dust-Leaving’s familiarity with Upper Cultivators suggested the man had no such Will, and speculated that its reaction was connected to the Sea Pavilion True Lord’s arrangements.
• Chen Yang compared the man with Cang Yu and Cang Xun and considered that he might have submitted to the Sea Pavilion True Lord voluntarily.
• Chen Yang sent a warning through the Dao Academy decree, asking Dark Underworld Venerable to watch the Xuanyuan Clan’s developments.
• Chen Yang wondered how Dust-Leaving had detected the anomaly through the Sea Pavilion True Lord’s concealment methods.

Chen Yang and Yang Yuanzhen discovered that Dust-Leaving could sense nearby threats, giving the Yang Clan a second way to track superior cultivator wills and Immortal Treasures. Chen Yang guided Yang Yuanzhen through reasoning about the suspicious Xuanyuan Clan cultivator, and her group then entered the Secret Realm.

• Chen Yang realized Yang Yuanzhen's Dust-Leaving could sense beings within a few zhang, while Blood Sun Venerable God's Blood Qi Tracing Method remained under development.
• Chen Yang considered how the Yang Clan could use both tracking methods and noted that Yang Yuanxing needed to make better use of his talent for refining spirit pearls.
• Yang Yuanzhen asked whether the suspicious cultivator had seen through her disguise, and Chen Yang judged that he had only found her unusual.
• Chen Yang advised Yang Yuanzhen to examine the situation from the other person's perspective, and she reasoned that someone who knew her identity would have stayed hidden rather than draw her attention.
• Chen Yang taught Yang Yuanzhen to step outside her own perspective when faced with confusion, and her group entered the Secret Realm.

After demonic cultivators sabotaged the passages to the Five Elements Secret Realm, the Immortal Mansion ancestors stabilized them and alerted the Yang Clan and Lingxiao Dao Academy. They realized the main demonic force had entered with the first groups, leaving the young cultivators inside at risk as the righteous leaders waited to learn what would happen.

• Demonic cultivators destroyed their bodies to disrupt the passages, prompting the Immortal Mansion guards to alert their ancestors.
• Venerable Shu Xi and the other ancestors stabilized the passages and called on the Yang Clan and Lingxiao Dao Academy for help.
• Mo Yunzhou, He Shenglai, and others screened the cultivators waiting to enter and uncovered another group of demonic cultivators from Demon Soil.
• The righteous leaders inferred that the main demonic force had already entered the Secret Realm and intended to attack while the passages remained unstable.
• Tu Shanfu worried for the core disciples inside, while Venerable Shu Xi and Liu Fangran argued that the Yang Clan and the Dao Academy should share responsibility for the attack.

A group of righteous cultivators learned that demonic cultivators had sabotaged the Secret Realm passageway and trapped them inside. Their supposed leader revealed that he and the others were demons on a hunt, then repelled two cultivators who attacked him.

• A disciple described how demonic cultivators burst apart inside the passageway, scattering everyone across the Secret Realm.
• The cultivators concluded that the demons had destroyed the passageway to isolate them and target the righteous cultivators.
• The group agreed to return, warn other righteous cultivators, and hunt down the demons, but their leader urged them to stay.
• The leader revealed that the demons had come to begin a hunt, and the crimson-robed cultivator and one-armed cultivator attacked him.
• The demonic cultivator blocked their spells with flaming black chains and dismissed their attacks as mere tricks.

A red-robed cultivator held off a demonic cultivator to let a junior escape, but revealed that he had concealed his strength. The demonic cultivator tried to defend himself as an unseen attack erupted from the ground.

• The demonic cultivator mocked the red-robed cultivator for risking his life to protect a junior and argued that fleeing would have been the rational choice.
• The red-robed cultivator reflected on the demonic cultivator’s words as he faced three incoming Blackflame Chains.
• The chains pierced the red-robed cultivator without drawing blood, and the demonic cultivator realized his attack had struck an illusion or otherwise failed to hit him.
• The demonic cultivator recalled his Blackflame Chains around himself and searched for the unseen red-robed cultivator.
• The red-robed cultivator’s voice declared that every choice would lead to the same result for the demonic cultivator, and a blast of blood-energy technique erupted from the ground.

After killing a demonic cultivator, Chi Tian consumed part of his body to extract information and sent what he learned to the other Secret Realms. The group learned that the demonic cultivators were hunting living creatures for a ritual, while Bai Yu offered to share ways to counter their arts.

• Chi Tian used the essence of his blood vitality to help the injured righteous cultivators recover, but left them unconscious to conceal his identity.
• Chi Tian killed the demonic cultivator rather than interrogate him because the Black Lotus Mark could erase his consciousness and soul.
• Chi Tian consumed part of the demonic cultivator's body to extract information, then sent his findings to Chen Huai'an, Lin Qiao, and the others through a dragon-scale treasure.
• Lin Qiao and Ming Fang looked to Bai Yu after hearing about the Black Lotus Mark and black-flame chains; Bai Yu denied commanding the attackers and offered countermeasures for their arts.
• Chi Tian's transmission revealed that the demonic cultivators were hunting living creatures to complete a ritual or sacrifice for an unknown purpose.

Chen Yang’s immortal body headed to the Demon Emperor's Burial Mound to ascend, using the rite to test how the Upper Realm would respond to Wu Chang’s lingering aura. He also prepared a fallback with Xu Cang in case the Upper Cultivators set a trap.

• Lin Qiao sent her Immortal Venerable a Thought Transmission because she could not decide what to do about the unclear situation.
• Chen Yang’s immortal body left the Yang Family Sacred Land and traveled toward the Vast Sea Demonic Land to prepare for his ascension.
• Chen Yang had chosen the Demon Emperor's Burial Mound because Upper Cultivators had once descended there, making it seem like a place they might target.
• Chen Yang secretly planned to expose Wu Chang’s lingering divine power and gauge the Upper Realm’s response by ascending at the burial mound.
• Chen Yang and Xu Cang prepared a fallback to restore contact between the Upper Realm and Azure Waves if the Upper Cultivators trapped him.
• Chen Yang suspected Bai Di’s true aim in the Immortal Abode Secret Realm was not the Five Elements Blood Crystal.

Lin Qiao and Bai Yu split from Ming Fang and Xu Zheng to suppress demonic cultivators while the others searched the Earth Dao Secret Realm. Across the five Secret Realms, demonic attacks stalled exploration, so the Upper Realm people decided to use the crisis to approach the Yang Clan members indirectly.

• Lin Qiao and Bai Yu agreed to suppress demonic cultivators, while Ming Fang and Xu Zheng went to search for the Trial Ground.
• Demonic cultivators across the five Secret Realms ambushed righteous cultivators, sealing their cultivation and consciousness with Blackflame Chains.
• Righteous cultivators learned of the threat, but the demonic cultivators' concealment slowed exploration across the Secret Realms.
• The Old Devil urged the senior cultivators' soul fragments to wipe out the demonic cultivators, but the Confluence Faction senior warned that acting directly could expose their mission.
• The Dao Academy ancestor proposed using the demonic threat to approach the Yang Clan members indirectly, and the Upper Realm people began to act.

Chen Huai'an met Zhang Tao in the Water Dao Secret Realm and recognized the value of his ability to sense demonic energy. He rewarded Zhang Tao with a Water Origin Pearl, while Chen Yang was still on his way to the Demon Soil to discuss how to handle its powerful Demon Sect grandmaster.

• The Yang Clan cultivators informed Chen Yang about the Demon Soil grandmaster, and Chen Yang planned to discuss the matter with Bai Di after arriving.
• The New Heaven cultivators were left to handle the Immortal Abode Secret Realm, with instructions to rescue misled demonic cultivators if possible and execute them if necessary.
• A Penglai Palace disciple brought Zhang Tao from Water Cloud Temple to Chen Huai'an.
• Chen Huai'an calmed Zhang Tao and learned that his Pure Water Art could sense sinister arts and demonic techniques, helping the group anticipate two attacks.
• Chen Huai'an formed a Water Origin Pearl from his Dao arts and presented it as a reward for Zhang Tao.

As Zhang Tao refined the Water Origin Pearl, the three Upper Cultivator wills discovered that Chen Huai'an had a connection to Creation Origin and planned to keep serving as his assistants. Unnoticed by them, a specially crafted strand of blood aura entered Zhang Tao’s body, evading their senses.

• Zhang Tao absorbed the Water Origin Pearl, and the three Upper Cultivator wills sensed Creation Origin in Chen Huai'an’s water-technique comprehension.
• The Soul Fragment of the Confluence Faction concluded that the Yang Clan Prodigies had encountered Creation Origin and planned to earn Chen Huai'an’s trust to learn more.
• The old demon proposed refining the demon informant for his Soul Dao cultivation, but the Dao Academy ancestor rejected the idea to avoid drawing attention.
• The three Upper Cultivator wills agreed to continue acting as Zhang Tao and assist Chen Huai'an until they reached the Land of Supreme Treasures.
• A strand of blood aura entered Zhang Tao while he refined the pearl, escaping detection because it shared the Upper Realm lineage of the three wills.

Yang Yuanxing presented Chen Yang with eight Strange Stones, prompting Chen Yang to reconsider whether purer Exotic Stones could grant him new divine abilities. The chapter left Chen Yang examining the stones after receiving two from Dark Underworld Venerable and learning about Strange Stones from Xu Cang.

• Yang Yuanxing summoned eight Strange Stones and presented them to Chen Yang.
• Chen Yang recalled that consuming ordinary Exotic Stones after reaching the Spiritual Connection Realm had granted him no benefits and had created impurities in his body.
• Chen Yang learned from Xu Cang that Primal Exotic Stones, also called Strange Stones, were unusually pure and could possess stable effects.
• Chen Yang befriended Dark Underworld Venerable after helping resolve the Lower Realm chaos caused by Lang Xiao and the other two.
• Chen Yang asked Dark Underworld Venerable about Strange Stones at Yang Yuanhong's wedding, and Dark Underworld Venerable gave him two from the Dao Academy's treasure vault.

Chen Yang received the eight Strange Stones gathered by Xue Qingluan and Yin Er and prepared to test their abilities before refining them. He promised Yang Yuanxing that his children, Yang Xuanhao and Yang Xuanxi, could return home for a month, then discovered the first stone’s actual power did not match its recorded ability.

• Chen Yang praised Xue Qingluan and Yin Er for finding the Strange Stones and ordered rewards prepared for them.
• Yang Yuanxing asked about his children’s cultivation, and Chen Yang promised Yang Xuanhao and Yang Xuanxi could visit home for a month.
• Yang Yuanxing left the Fifth Layer Heaven Domain and shared the news with his two wives.
• Chen Yang isolated Shenlin Peak and began examining the six newly gathered Strange Stones.
• Chen Yang tested a stone recorded as having the ability “Silencing” and found that sound vibrations still traveled normally within its range.

Chen Yang absorbed eight strange stones and gained six of their abilities, while two awakened stones pleaded to remain independent by acknowledging him as their master. He accepted their request, leaving the two spirits within his body and the other six absorbed.

• Chen Yang used Zhen Xuan to devour the eight strange stones, causing their Spirit Storage Spaces to gather into a ring of light inside him.
• Two of the stones awakened primitive consciousness and begged Chen Yang not to absorb them, offering to acknowledge him as their master.
• Chen Yang accepted the two stones’ request and drew their Spiritual Sense into his consciousness.
• Chen Yang absorbed the remaining six stones and gained their abilities of illusion, insight, lightning summoning, soul lodging, light concealment, and sound preservation.
• The two stones that acknowledged Chen Yang left fine black and yellow patterns etched into his crystalline body.

Chen Yang summoned Yang Xuanhao and Yang Xuanxi to test their divine abilities, while Yang Xuancang continued cultivating nearby. The siblings raced to the mountaintop, each borrowing divine power to gain an advantage, and Yang Xuanxi began catching up after using her Wind-Spirit Illusory Body Art.

• Chen Yang arrived in the Stone-Body Grotto-Heaven and saw Yang Xuancang tempering his body in the Sea of Grotto-Heavens.
• Chen Yang summoned Yang Xuanhao and Yang Xuanxi to the mountaintop.
• Yang Xuanhao froze the path with power borrowed from Frost Flower Venerable God and glided ahead using a movement art.
• Yang Xuanxi borrowed power from Fu Yin High God and Yanming High God, then used the Wind-Spirit Illusory Body Art to chase Yang Xuanhao.

Yang Xuanxi gained entry into a Dao-Unification Divine Art, impressing Chen Yang and Yang Xuanhao with a light-based movement technique formed from Yan Ming’s divine power. Her breakthrough gave Chen Yang hope that Dao-Unification methods could eventually let Path Seeking Realm cultivators apply spatial laws in concrete ways.

• Chen Yang praised Yang Xuanxi for combining diligent cultivation with deep thought, and Yang Xuanhao congratulated her after realizing she had begun cultivating a Dao-Unification Divine Art.
• Yang Xuanxi modestly said she had only just started and still had a long way to go before mastering the art.
• Chen Yang reflected that the four Divine-Blooded children could cultivate divine arts more easily, and that he had guided Yang Xuanxi toward light techniques suited to her affinity with Yan Ming.
• Chen Yang recognized Yang Xuanxi’s new art as a high-speed movement technique that used reflections of the great sun’s radiance, though its full applications remained unknown.
• Chen Yang saw her breakthrough as a promising step toward enabling Path Seeking Realm cultivators to use spatial Dao laws in practical ways.