Recaps

The Soul-Return Dao Art brought the dead back across Azure Waves while conflicts with Upper Realm cultivators escalated. Chen Yang arrived as the righteous factions sought a way to sever the returned souls’ connection to the world, and he pursued Bai Di and Cui Shenyoo into the heavens.

• Elder Sui discovered An Sixian’s shattered Life Tablet, and Zhang Jin died after resisting a soul-search by the Jade Firmament Sect True Person.
• The ghost spirits combined into the little girl in white, who joined forces with the Jade Firmament Sect ancestor and inhabited a Spiritual Connection cultivator’s body.
• As returned souls spread across the Central Region, the seven Mystic Insight Venerables organized containment efforts and awakened Sword Ancestor Wuduan.
• Zhuang Xuanji exposed the Upper Realm cultivators’ involvement, while Lang Xiao’s soul fragment grew stronger and Yang Yuanhong turned the tide in the isolated-region battle.
• Chen Yang learned about the returned souls and their connection to the world, then defeated Lang Xiao and captured Nangong Jinghe.
• The Venerables discovered that restored souls were becoming frenzied and sought Yang Lingrui to sever their connection, while Upper Realm battles intensified around Bai Di and Cui Shenyoo.
• Chen Yang arrived at the battlefield and suppressed the cultivators with his immortal might, but Bai Di escaped with Cui Shenyoo toward the heavens.
• Chen Yang caught up with Bai Di and Cui Shenyoo at the summit of the heavens and attacked Cui Shenyoo with ten True Mystic blasts.

Chen Yang entered the Great Competition of Two Daos to seize Cui Shenyoo while the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord advanced his Soul-Return Dao Art and tribulation. As Chen Yang fought Qin Changsheng and crippled the demon lord, Yang Lingrui entered the soul art to sever its hold on the departed and faced the Great Dao’s punishment.

• Chen Yang entered the Outrealm, uncovered the two ancient Dao Venerables hiding in spatial vortices, and ordered them to disperse themselves.
• Bai Di arrived with Dongxuan cultivation, and Chen Yang confronted the Great Venerables as the Righteous and Demonic Paths each believed their side had won.
• Chen Yang showed the genuine Immortal Intent Edict and left the two Daos to decide whether to surrender Cui Shenyoo, while Qin Changsheng agreed to protect the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord’s Dao.
• The Myriad Corpses Demon Lord began his tribulation as Chen Yang and Dark Underworld Venerable fought Qin Changsheng, and Yang Lingrui entered the Soul-Return Dao Art to sever its hold on the departed souls.
• Yang Lingrui reunited with Yang Linghu inside the soul art and showed him Wu Tong and their son Yang Yuanhong, but Yang Linghu’s soul began to grow frenzied.
• Chen Yang’s True Profound Impacts damaged Qin Changsheng and the phase realm, then nearly destroyed the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord as he tried to escape with Cui Shenyoo.
• Xu Cang joined his power to the Immortal Venerable’s Illuminating Radiance, helping Yang Lingrui resist the soul-returning force and walk deeper into the Soul Law Land.
• Yang Lingrui broke through the Soul Dao fog and met the Great Dao’s punishment, merging with his spatial domain before the tribulation locked onto his ghost-headed saber.

Yang Lingrui and his allies fought through the Soul Law Land as karmic remnants tried to preserve the Myriad Corpses Demon Lord’s fate. The Canglan gods entered the Wind-Snow Void Realm to protect Yang Lingrui, leaving the shadows of karma unable to control the outcome.

• Yang Lingrui endured the Soul Law Spirit’s Arcane Corpses and fought onward with help from Yang Yuanhong, Yun Xiwu, Ling Shuang, Shen Yue, and Chi Tian.
• The Soul Law Spirit fused with the Soul Law Core, then drew Yang Lingrui and his companions’ soul intents into a void passage as he tried to Sever Karma.
• Ling Shuang and the others regrouped in the Wind-Snow World, where Yang Yuanhong reported that law corpses could wield the realm’s wind and snow against them.
• The cultivators battled complete-form law corpses near Snow Peak as worsening weather threatened them and the commoners sheltered below.
• The Soul Law Spirit used illusions and a turning mountain to wear down Yang Lingrui and his allies, while Yun Xiwu risked herself to shield the commoners from the cold.
• A golden sun appeared and suppressed the storm, and Zi Xue and Cui Zhu helped restore life and spiritual energy throughout the realm.
• Blood Sun Venerable God, restored by Chen Yang, led the Canglan Divine Host into the Wind-Snow Void Realm to protect Yang Lingrui, leaving the karmic shadows stunned.

After the Soul Law Spirit’s defeat and the war’s end, Chen Yang and the factions turned to rebuilding and settling their affairs. The arc leaves the Northwest Yang Clan’s wedding convoy facing a spatial barrier at Ziyun Mountain as Yang Yuanhong begins to break through it.

• Ultimate Splendor restored the Soul Art Spirit’s power, and the Soul Art Spirit killed Yun Xiwu, Shen Yue, Shenwu, Chi Tian, Ling Shuang, Yang Yuanhong, Dongfang Yingcai, and Yang Lingrui.
• A rescued youth threw a torch at Yang Lingrui, who broke free, severed the Soul-Returning Art’s link to the Sea of Corpse Souls, and ended Myriad Corpses Demon Lord’s chance to perfect his Dao arts.
• Myriad Corpses Demon Lord ascended, and Chen Yang’s avatar forced Dark Underworld Venerable and Qin Changsheng to end their fight, then secured Qin Changsheng’s retreat from Azure Waves until he ascended.
• Qin Changsheng distributed shares of the Great Competition’s fortune among righteous cultivators, while Futuo entered the Void Realm and received guidance from Xing Xiang and Zhuang Xuanji.
• Chen Yang returned to Demon Suppression Pass, pledged support to the Five Directions Immortal Mansion, and brought Dongfang Clan ancestors and the souls of Lang Xiao and Hu Pengxiao back to the Central Region.
• Yang Lingqing organized Northwest reconstruction, investigated Gu Jianhuan’s past, lifted her death sentence, and released her from the dungeon.
• Bai Di rewarded demonic cultivators and secured the territory he had sought, while the reopened Heavenly Secrets Pavilion published new rankings that drew attention to Dongfang Yingcai and the Yang Clan.
• The Dongfang Clan welcomed the Yang Clan’s wedding convoy at Ziyun Mountain, where its ancestors raised a spatial barrier and Yang Yuanhong began probing it with advanced spatial Daoist Magic.