Recaps

Chen Yang and his allies traced the Upper Realm cultivator’s influence through Azure Waves while Xiao Yao investigated cultivators who had received his techniques. At the Pill Origin Ceremony, Yang Yuanzhao and Xiao Yao helped He Xinxian advance so they could draw out the Ascendant Will, and Li Huazhong led the six successful alchemists to Medicine God Valley.

• Chen Yang concluded that the heavenly being intended to use lower-realm cultivators to find the Creation Origin, then helped Bai Di and the remaining peak cultivators prepare to unite Canglan’s forces against the Upper Cultivators.
• Bai Di studied Yang Lingqing’s Future Generations' Treatise on Opening Heaven and vowed to inherit his aspirations, while the Yang Clan quietly established Heaven-Clearing Academy and Lingxiao Dao Academy gained influence in the Central Region.
• Xiao Yao joined the Five Heroes of Meng River at Furnacefire Grotto-Heaven, where she investigated cultivators who had received techniques from a mysterious expert and learned that one had met him near Flowbreak Bay.
• Xiao Yao questioned Yi An about the ice-path treasure he found in an ancient tomb, and Chen Yang ordered her to inspect the tomb with Yi An and Nangong Jinghe after the Pill Origin Ceremony.
• Yang Yuanzhao and He Xinxian passed the Pill Workshop’s first alchemy assessment, while Chen Yang detected a foreign fragment in He Xinxian’s soul and decided to use the ceremony to draw out the Upper Realm will.
• Yang Yuanzhao impressed Li Huazhong with his fire control, and He Xinxian offered him part of an ancient alchemical text in exchange for partnering with her.
• Chen Yang instructed Xiao Yao and Yang Yuanzhao to assist He Xinxian secretly, and the pair supplied missing parts of Li Huazhong’s pill formula to pass the second trial.
• Six alchemists advanced, and Li Huazhong brought them to Medicine God Valley, his secluded cultivation retreat.

Li Huazhong investigated the Immortal Treasures while Xiao Yao and the Canglan cultivators prepared to confront the Upper Realm souls in the Danyuan Secret Realm. The Ascendant Will attacked Xiao Yao in her true dragon form, and four devouring orbs locked onto her.

• Li Huazhong learned that his master’s death was likely tied to the Immortal Treasures and began watching He Xinxian, while Xiao Yao entered the Pill Origin Ceremony.
• Wang Sanjin used immortal power to interfere with Yang Yuanzhao’s attempt to earn the Mystic Pill, but Xiao Yao claimed the pill herself.
• Li Huazhong invited Yang Yuanzhao, He Xinxian, and Wang Sanjin into the Danyuan Secret Realm, where Wang Sanjin’s immortal power continued to threaten He Xinxian.
• Chen Yang prepared Blood Sun to act as bait for the Upper Realm cultivators, while Wang Sanjin plotted to seize Li Huazhong’s immortal power and Zhao Yuancheng’s treasure.
• Wang Sanjin’s Ascendant Will attacked He Xinxian, but Li Huazhong sent his master’s remnant will into her to restrain the evil immortal power.
• The Ascendant Will fought Yang Yuanzhao, who escaped with his treasure of Creation, then pursued a blood-art Creation Origin and encountered Xiao Yao.
• Xiao Yao revealed that she knew Wang Sanjin and the other souls came from the Upper Realm, then attacked him in her Purple-Gold True Dragon form.
• The Ascendant Will and another Treading-Void Split Soul joined forces, countered Xiao Yao’s Dragon Shadows, and locked four devouring orbs onto her.

The New Heaven Project defeated the Upper Cultivator remnants and prepared to recruit young cultivators while hiding its true purpose. As Jiang Pu struggled with the demon in her mind, the candidates reached the first trial for Heaven-Clearing Academy.

• Xiao Yao defeated the Upper Cultivator in the Creation Origin, while the Treading-Void Split Souls tried and failed to refine it, and Wang Sanjin died believing he had ascended.
• Li Huazhong, Shen Yue, Liu Yanqing, and other New Heaven cultivators eliminated fleeing souls as Chen Yang gathered evidence about the Void Realm factions and ended the Immortal Capture Operation.
• Chen Yang concealed the operation from most participants by erasing their Upper Cultivator auras, while the Yang Clan maintained an appearance of weakness to protect the New Heaven Project.
• The Yang Clan and its allies prepared candidates for Heaven-Clearing Academy, and Zi He and Jia Huarai received the New Heaven Project’s secrets from Yang Lingrui.
• Jiang Pu pursued a supposed Immortal Treasure to escape the demon possessing her, while the Ascendant Will’s fabricated promise drove her toward the Creation Origin and Sheng Jiaoyang prepared to end their engagement.
• The Yang Clan admitted selected candidates, including Murong Xu, Zi Mo, He Shuping, Feng Weiran, Jiang Pu, and Sheng Jiaoyang, to the next selection round.
• Yang Yuanwen and Yang Yuanliu appeared before the candidates, who were ordered to climb Clear Sky Peak and reach the great hall at its summit.

The Yang Clan’s children and visiting cultivators faced the Book-Within Grotto-Heaven’s trials as hidden soul fragments pursued the Origin of Creation. Murong Xu reached the end of Grotto Valley, where Yang Yuanzhen offered him a chance to draw a reward.

• Murong Xu and Jiang Pu entered the Book-Within Grotto-Heaven, while Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu arranged for Yang Yuan Zhen and Yang Xuancang to use Xuan Cang as bait in their plan.
• Jiang Pu survived the fog and Six-Legged Jackals, rescued Hu Zhinian and Hu Zhiyue, and led them to a cave where Yang Xuancang found a frost-covered girl’s corpse.
• The girl awoke and confronted the Treading-Void Split Souls, while Wu Chang later erased one fragment and forced the others to tell him about Great Awakening Temple and the Heavenly Sea Domain.
• Zhuang Xuanji learned that a five-year expedition would take her away from the Void Realm and secured permission for Futuo to accompany her.
• Zhou Baitai used children to cross the Fallen Leaf Land before Yang Xuancang stopped him, while the trial’s mortal entrants were later assessed and Jiang Pu earned a place in the Technique Academy as a Direct Disciple.
• Feng Weiran, He Shuping, Zi Mo, and Murong Xu survived repeated insect attacks, while Shi Ying joined the Northwest cultivators and revealed her incense arts and spiritual ailment.
• The young cultivators battled spirit puppets in Grotto Valley using their Spirit Control Methods, and Murong Xu reached the end first.
• Yang Yuanzhen told Murong Xu to turn the wooden handle of a circular drum three times to draw a reward, and Murong Xu wondered whether the drum possessed spatial power.