Recaps

The contest for the True Intent Formless Manifestation ended with He Shenglai claiming it, while Zhang Jin’s tribulation and the battle over the Stone Tablet Treasure shook the factions. Back in the Northwest, Chen Yang strengthened Xue Qingluan and restored Ban Kuizhen as Chen Huaien as the Yang Family prepared for its next moves.

• Su Lingyun fought his way toward the True Intent Formless Manifestation, but Zhang Jin seized the Blood Puppet and triggered a Spiritual Connection Tribulation that forced Su Lingyun to flee.
• Chen Yang shielded Zhang Jin through the tribulation, and Zhang Jin broke into Spiritual Connection before the Dao laws sent him to the Rising Sun Realm.
• He Shenglai obtained the True Intent Formless Manifestation and escaped the collapsing trial space with Yang Lingrui and the others, then recounted the battle to Wen Zishu and pledged the He Family’s loyalty to the Dynasty.
• Zhang Jin told the factions that a Tiger Chasing cultivator had taken the treasure, while Jade Firmament Sect challenged Lanyue Sect over the Stone Tablet Treasure and learned through soul searching that Zhang Jin had betrayed Xu Chen.
• Chang Chengsheng fought Jade Firmament Sect’s True Persons over the missing treasure, and Yue Wuxiang later settled the dispute by paying three Spirit Crystal mine veins.
• Chen Yang revealed himself to Xue Qingluan, gave her a True Intent Formless Manifestation, and helped her obtain and fuse with a Jade Rabbit Spiritual Item.
• Chen Yang restored Ban Kuizhen in a Perfected Realm body, named him Chen Huaien, and instructed him to rebuild his cultivation and seek alchemical inheritances.
• Yang Yuanhong reached the limits of his cultivation and body, so Chen Yang prepared to guard his breakthrough as the King Insect returned from clearing ore beneath the underground seal.

Chen Yang advanced to Spiritual Connection, gained the Light Divine Technique, and expanded his worship while the Yang Family opened its trade route. As Yang Yuanhong, Yao Santu, and Dongfang Yingcai entered the Divine Weapon Secret Realm, its weapons turned against the cultivators, and Chen Yang intervened to save Yao Santu.

• Yang Yuanhong formed his Origin Core under a strengthened True Dragon tribulation, while Chen Yang concealed the dragon phenomenon and the King Insect began to transform.
• After Yang Yuanhong survived the tribulation, Chen Yang gained enough cultivation feedback to reach Late Essence Condensation, and the Yang family prepared its trade route as cultivators gathered for Gao Hui’s breakthrough.
• Gao Hui entered Essence Condensation, while Dongfang Yingcai and Yao Santu set out for the Divine Weapon Convention and rescued Chen Shitou from bandits along the way.
• Chen Huaien overcame his inner demons and returned to Spiritual Connection as Ban Kuizhen, while Chen Yang refined the resulting cultivation feedback and reached Spiritual Connection himself.
• Chen Yang climbed the Long Stairway to Godhood, received the Light Divine Technique Fleeting Years, and learned to manifest the Abyss of Time.
• The Yang Family’s caravans reached Befeng City, while Yang Yuanhong, Dongfang Yingcai, and Yao Santu traveled through Moliang and helped people suffering under its harsh conditions.
• At the Divine Weapon Convention, Yang Yuanhong entered the deteriorating Secret Realm, where Chen Yang took control of him and passed its first five trials as weapons began killing their wielders.
• The Hundred Artifacts Tower failed to evacuate the trapped cultivators, and Chen Yang found Yao Santu fighting ownerless Divine Weapons in a formation before manifesting the Abyss of Time to help him.

Chen Yang confronted the Mad God, claimed the Divine Lord’s authority, and helped Yang Yuanhong establish a new faith among the Barbarian tribes. After they survived a Beast Tide, a temple investigation party set out to learn what had happened.

• Chen Yang destroyed the Horse-Slaying Saber with the Canglan Divine Palace’s authority, then gave its spiritual body a final moment of clarity.
• Yang Yuanhong reunited with Chen Yang, who developed his stone-body grotto-heaven, and continued into Barbarian territory.
• Yang Yuanhong healed Amingu and used the tribe’s sacrificial totem to bless its people, while Chen Yang discovered the Barbarian Lands had been shaped by three Divine Path creatures.
• Yang Yuanhong and Nalran won the allegiance of the Rock Hammer and Lightning Horn Tribes, then spread the Divine Lord’s faith across all twelve borderland tribes.
• Chen Yang detected the divine officials’ attempt to punish the tribes and warned Yang Yuanhong of an approaching Beast Tide.
• Yang Yuanhong and Chen Yang helped the twelve tribes survive the Beast Tide, and eight neighboring tribes adopted the new faith after receiving aid.
• The Descent Divine Temple sent a Judgment Squad to investigate the tribes, while Lorraine and her companions traveled on foot to investigate reports of a surviving tribe and a divine blessing.

Yang Yuanhong united tribes and defectors against the Divine Temple, overthrew its rule across the Barbarian Lands, and established a new council. The arc ended with Bai Que, Huang Ding, and Cang Jue presenting Yang Yuanhong with an armguard that merged with his body and granted him several abilities.

• Lorraine and four divine envoys joined Yang Yuanhong after he revealed the gods’ call for help and shared divine power, while Mosato later returned and accepted a blessing.
• Yang Yuanhong won Nuta and other tribal leaders to his side, healed Mont, and built an expanding force as the temple sent Judgment Divine Envoys to suppress them.
• Yang Yuanhong led his followers against the White Wolf Royal Capital’s army, while Chen Yang freed Bai Que from the resentment weighing on him.
• Bai Que released the gathered resentment over the battlefield, and Yang Yuanhong’s united followers cleansed and blessed the temple’s soldiers and Knight Commanders, winning many of them over.
• Yang Yuanhong’s forces broke the evil-power barrier, gained the nobles’ and Knight Commanders’ allegiance, destroyed the White Wolf Divine Temple, and executed the priests and royal family.
• Yang Yuanhong conquered Lion King Capital, accepted the Iron Eagle Royal Capital’s surrender, abolished the royal capitals and temple rule, and established the Barbarian Affairs Council with forty-eight districts.
• Bai Que, Huang Ding, and Cang Jue brought Yang Yuanhong a completed armguard, which merged with his body and gave him enhanced strength, defense, healing, cultivation, and protective abilities.