Recaps

Yang Lingshu and the Northwest forces repelled the Demon Children as Yang Lingrui arrived and devastated the Demonic Dao armies. Yang Lingrui proved the Killing Dao amid a tribulation, then helped the Northwest True Intent cultivators kill a demonic expert while Bai Di awaited reinforcements.

• Yang Lingshu, True Man Huolong, and Yuchi Lian defeated the Demon Children’s assault, then led the righteous forces in breaking the Demonic Path’s lines.
• Yang Lingrui arrived at the central battlefield, avenged Wen Zishu, rescued wounded allies, and routed the Demonic Dao forces across the battlefield.
• Yang Lingrui confronted three Demon Children in the Wild Forest, overcame their resurrection and sealing arts, and revealed that he had comprehended the True Intent of the Way of Slaughter.
• Yang Lingrui released his killing intent and began proving the Dao, enduring tribulation lightning as he became one with the world’s space and used decrees to weaken the storm.
• Yang Lingrui destroyed the Spirit Eye through which Bai Di watched him, while Bai Di ordered Wu Chang to send more Demonic Dao cultivators into the Northwest.
• Bai Di’s contribution of fortune intensified Yang Lingrui’s tribulation, and Yang Lingrui endured repeated destruction and restoration as his bones became jade-like.
• Northwest True Intent cultivators surrounded the demonic experts, while Bai Di learned that Yang Lingrui had destroyed his forces and killed two of his personal-guard Demon Children.
• Yang Lingrui and the Northwest cultivators cornered a blood-arts demon cultivator, and Yang Lingrui killed him with Fate-Severing Slash after suppressing his life souls.

Bai Di led the Demonic Dao’s invasion of the Northwest, clashing with righteous cultivators as its plans faltered and Wu Chang shifted the spatial routes. Yang Lingqing’s forces prepared for the next assault and ambushed the arriving demonic vanguards on the Barbarian Land’s western border.

• Yang Lingrui and the Northwest cultivators killed the last first-wave True Intent demon, then withdrew east as Yang Lingqing warned that reinforcements were coming.
• Blackwater Demon Lord entered the Northwest through the spatial passage, but Venerable Shuying confronted him while righteous reinforcements turned the frontline battle against the demonic forces.
• Bai Di grew suspicious of Wu Chang, then reached the battlefield and defeated Nangong Moyu, Yi Xuanbai, and the Immortal Estate cultivators with his second Dharma body.
• Bai Di confronted Ye Chenfeng with two restored Soul-Returning Method corpses, but Ye Chenfeng refused to accept them as his returned Junior Brother and Junior Sister.
• Eight righteous cultivators surrounded Bai Di and sealed him inside warped space, while their allies fought the Demon Children at great cost.
• Mont and Lin Qiao traced spatial fluctuations into a thunderstorm as Yang Lingqing organized patrols and prepared defenses along the Barbarian Land’s border.
• Yang Lingqing sent fifteen True Intent experts to guard the spatial routes and border while Wu Chang divided and relocated the routes without knowing of the preparations.
• Five righteous cultivators ambushed the demonic vanguards as they emerged from the unstable spatial pathways, inflicting heavy losses before Yang Lingqing and Dongfang Yingcai reached the western border camp.

As the Yang Clan’s forces struggled against the Demonic Dao invasion, Yang Lingqing uncovered Bai Ming’s bloodshed scheme and sent reinforcements to the front. Yang Yuanhong defeated Bai Ming, then entered a devastating True Intent tribulation while Chen Yang waited for him to reveal his remaining trump cards.

• Yang Lingqing reorganized the defenses and sent Chen Huai'an to destroy a Demonic Dao vanguard, while the Sun Clan joined the Northwest campaign and all seventeen Demon Children appeared on the battlefield.
• As casualties mounted, Yang Yuanwen trapped five demon cultivators in demonic clouds, and Han Wang helped recapture the northwest camp after Fang Xiao was killed during the western-gate breach.
• Feng Linghua defeated three attackers but was ambushed while trying to aid Feng Lan, while Yin Er returned to help the frontline break the encirclement and Yang Lingqing considered withdrawing from the increasingly costly battles.
• Yang Lingqing identified Bai Ming’s bloodshed as the likely purpose of the offensive, and Bai Ming drew a blood-hungry underground evil creature toward the battlefield as Dongfang Yingcai and the other righteous experts tried to stop him.
• Dongfang Yingcai and Yang Lingshu discovered that the stone-bodied creature had formed from Su Dingcang’s resentment, while the King Insect destroyed its body and pursued its escaping root resentment.
• Shenwu, Zhuo Hanqing, and Dongfang Yingcai drove Bai Ming back, but Yang Yuanhong took over the fight and overwhelmed him until Bai Ming escaped as his Lotus Dharma Body collapsed.
• Yang Yuanhong confronted the Black Death Lightning Tribulation, then drew it into his True Intent Great Tribulation and declared his intent to take Martial Fortune from Venerable Daohé and Earth Fiend Demon Lord.
• The fifth tribulation became the Soul-Severing Tribulation and battered Yang Yuanhong after he removed his protections, while Chen Yang stayed calm despite sensing his fading soul flame and stopped Blood Sun from leaving.

Chen Yang allied with Xu Cang and prepared to confront the Void Stepping cultivators, while battles and losses reshaped the Canglan Continent. As the righteous forces rebuilt, Yang Lingqing anticipated another demonic move, and An Sixian discovered a gathering of ghost spirits beneath the Candle Shadow Sect’s former site.

• Chen Yang met Xu Cang, negotiated an exchange for repairing the Canglan Immortal Intent, and agreed to help fight the three Void Stepping Old Monsters.
• Yang Yuanhong completed his tribulations, reached True Intent, and killed Yue Wuxiang, while Wu Tong and the Yang family mourned Yang Linghu.
• Ye Chenfeng fought Bai Di, broke through during their battle, and grievously wounded him before leaving to face his tribulation.
• Bai Di returned to Wu Chang, admitted he had exposed him to Upper Realm cultivators, and used Ghostly Soul Demon Venerable’s Fate-Determining Awl to release Bai Ming’s remnant soul and draw out Wu Chang’s divine power.
• Yang Yuanliu compiled the war’s casualty report as surviving Yang Family disciples built a cemetery, while Yun Xiwu’s forces joined the Northwest Allied Army to secure the Barbarian Land.
• Yang Lingqing warned He Shenglai that the Demonic Path Young Master might launch another attack and identified likely sites of demonic calamities.
• Zhang Jin warned An Sixian that dead people had returned to kill and replace the living, prompting An Sixian to investigate the Candle Shadow Sect’s former site.
• An Sixian followed strange footprints underground and discovered blue ghost spirits chanting for the Soul-Returning Grand Art and the forging of a Dao Body.