Recaps

Yang Lingshu survived the Seven Killings Tribulation and established a new cultivation path, drawing attention to the Yang Clan and Heaven-Clearing Academy. Four years before a planned confrontation with Xuanyuan Jun, Ye Chenfeng and Yang Yuanhong traveled north to investigate the Azure Dragon Clan’s discoveries.

• Shenwu tested Murong Xu and Shi Ying with mirror doubles, while Yang Yuanzhen strengthened Shi Ying’s soul and she began facing her fractured personalities.
• He Shuping, Murong Xu, Shi Ying, and Luo Yunheng became Yang Lingshu’s founding disciples, while Jiang Pu surprised the candidates by joining the Technique Academy as a Direct Disciple.
• Yang Lingshu demonstrated his strength at Heaven-Clearing Academy’s Founding Ceremony, then endured escalating tribulations that appeared to kill him before his Golden Core became a seed and he returned to life in the True Intent Realm.
• Yang Lingshu refined the Calamity Spirit and gained a lightning inheritance for his second Dharma body, then received congratulations from visiting cultivators who recognized his new Nascent Soul Truth-Seeking Method.
• Reports of Yang Lingshu’s achievement spread across Canglan, while Xuanyuan Jun summoned the Ascendant Wills to demand an explanation for their failed operations.
• Chen Yang prepared for the Immortal Capture Operation and expected Xuanyuan Jun to support the Treading-Void Split Souls, setting up a confrontation in four years.
• Ye Chenfeng, Yang Yuanhong, and their companions traveled to the North Land Azure Dragon Clan after learning that its ancestor had found an Immortal Treasure and two young cultivators had received Dao arts in dreams.
• The Azure Dragon Clan welcomed Ye Chenfeng as the Absolute Void Sword Immortal but treated Yang Yuanhong and his companions with little respect, which they accepted without taking offense.

Chen Huai'an and the Yang Clan uncovered the evil arts corrupting the Azure Dragon Clan and helped free its people from their influence. After the clan began returning to Azure Waves, Chen Yang faced family grief and the emergence of Yang Yuanzhen's unusual Dao Path, while the story shifted toward the Great Five Elements Secret Realm and Miaomu Immortal Mansion.

• Chen Huai'an subdued the Azure Dragon cultivators who attacked him, while Cang Yu and Cang Xun led the group toward the Land of Falling Lightning.
• Shenwu brought Azure Dragon guards into the Great Urn Daoist Ground and persuaded their elders that the Immortal Treasures and arts were harming the clan.
• Chen Huai'an defeated Cang Yu and extracted the sinister fire influencing him, while Chen Yang created a painful Dharma body to help Chen Huai'an face his karmic debts.
• Chen Huai'an and Xiao Yao destroyed hidden threats as Yang Lingrui confronted the Azure Dragon Ancestors, and the clan learned that its treasures were damaging its souls and shortening its lifespans.
• Chen Yang grieved over his family’s losses, then learned that Yang Yuanzhen was a rare mutation born within the Azure Waves Great Dao and promised not to favor one Dao Path over another for her.
• Yang Yuanzhen completed her Dao Initiation, the evil arts were cleared from the Azure Dragon Clan Lands, and Cang Yu vowed to become Chen Huai'an’s disciple after Chen Yang altered his memories.
• Two years later, the Great Five Elements Secret Realm drew attention to Miaomu Immortal Mansion, where He Shenglai and He Shuping learned that Lingxiao Dao Academy had gathered the Mansion’s scattered inheritances.

The New Heaven cultivators faced a demonic hunt in the Immortal Abode Secret Realm while Chen Yang prepared for ascension and investigated Strange Stones. The stretch ended with Yang Xuanxi beginning a Dao-Unification Divine Art that could make spatial Dao laws more practical for Path Seeking Realm cultivators.

• He Shenglai warned Yang Yuanling that the Secret Realm operation would be dangerous, while Lin Qiao and Bai Yu brought their allies together for training and coordination.
• Chen Yang’s forces used Yang Clan tokens to search for Ascendant Wills, and Chen Yang became wary of a Xuanyuan Clan cultivator who had noticed Yang Yuanzhen.
• Demonic cultivators disrupted the Secret Realm passages and hunted righteous cultivators with Blackflame Chains, while Chi Tian learned they were gathering living creatures for an unknown ritual.
• Lin Qiao and Bai Yu joined forces against the demonic threat as Upper Cultivator wills began approaching Chen Huai'an through Zhang Tao.
• Chen Yang traveled toward the Demon Emperor’s Burial Mound to prepare for ascension and planned to test the Upper Realm’s response.
• Yang Yuanxing brought Chen Yang eight Strange Stones, and Chen Yang absorbed six while allowing two with primitive consciousness to become his masters.
• Chen Yang summoned Yang Xuanhao and Yang Xuanxi home, where Yang Xuanxi demonstrated a new high-speed Dao-Unification Divine Art.

Chen Yang tested new Stone Spirits while Bai Di revealed the risks and purpose behind the New Heaven Project, and the Five Elements Secret Realm trials drew toward their final phase. As factions maneuvered around the Land of Supreme Treasures, Xuanyuan Jun watched the operation unfold and suspected an unseen hand was guiding the opposing side.

• Chen Yang tested Yang Xuanhao and Yang Xuanxi with unfamiliar divine abilities, then challenged Thought Severance and Eroding Decay while Chen Huaien assessed their powers.
• Ming Fang questioned Xu Zheng about the sacrifices and Black Lotus Marks, while Chen Yang visited Bai Di and learned about Bai Yu’s past, her revised cultivation art, and her potential as a double agent.
• Bai Di explained that the New Heaven Project accepted heavy casualties, identified the Void Realm’s three old monsters as responsible for spells planted in the Heaven Sealing Great Formation, and entrusted Chen Yang with the project’s blood debts.
• The Righteous Path cultivators fought off demonic forces in the Five Directions Secret Realm, and New Heaven members prepared to deal with the remaining Upper Cultivators as the Land of Supreme Treasures opened.
• Yang Xuanqing revealed her identity to Yan Zhuohua, who insisted that she had changed his Dao destiny, while he and Zhou Chunsheng later found a cave abode and claimed a Fire Jade Pearl.
• The Ascendant Wills and the Dao Academy grandmaster attacked Chi Tian, while Xuanyuan Zeyuan betrayed Yang Yuanling and a Penglai Palace disciple, recovered his power, and fought a Demon Soil infiltrator.
• The Technique Spirit preserved Xuanyuan Zeyuan’s consciousness after his body was pierced, as Yang Yuanling and the Demon Soil cultivator attacked him and Xuanyuan Jun continued playing out the factions’ conflict on his chessboard.
• Xuanyuan Jun accepted that Xuanyuan Zeyuan might die and considered whether an unseen Outsider Expert or hidden recluse was guiding the opposing side.